CELEX: 31989R1898
Language: en
Date: 1989-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1898/89 of 29 June 1989 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 184/ 10                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                   30 . 6. 89
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1898/89
                                                     of 29 June 1989
                                          fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     determining the standard quality and laying down
                                                                 detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses (^ ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,                                             Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­
                                                                 nities on the world market are being established, the
                                                                 Commission must take account of all available informa­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and               tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Portugal,                                                        exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices
                                                                 recorded on important third-country markets and on sales
                                                                 concluded in international trade of which it has know­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             ledge, either directly or through the agency of the
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)         Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for
No 1 069/89 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,       this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis,
                                                                 provided this average can be regarded as being representa­
                                                                 tive of actual market trends ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                 Whereas the Commission must disregard information if
Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products          quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small
listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ;                quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas
                                                                 offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of
                                                                 actual market trends must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to
the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the
threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­        Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
tion (EEC) No 1255/89 of 3 May 1989 fixing, for the              which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted,
 1989/90 marketing year, the derived intervention prices         account being taken in particular of the differences in the
for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the       cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading
minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices,           and the port of destination and between the port of
the amount of compensation for storage costs and the             loading and Rotterdam ;
prices to be applied in Spain and Portugal (3) ;
                                                                 Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the          quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on
Commission for a Community frontier crossing point               the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No              reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying
431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the           Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community
frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for
sugar 0 ;                                                        Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left
                                                                  unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
                                                                  served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable           price is not available to the Commission and if the offer
purchasing opportunities on the world market established          prices which are available and which appear not to be
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on          sufficiently representative of actual market trends would
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard          entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the
standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation
(EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968                Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
                                                                  pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of
(>) OJ No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
0   OJ No  L 114, 27. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
O   OJ No  L 126, 9. 5. 1989, p. 4.
0   OJ No  L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3 .                              0 OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.
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application of levies on sugar (l), as last amended by Regu­             these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the             tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail              previous indent and the aforesaid correcting factor ;
an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per
100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;            Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
                                                                    the levy for molasses should be as set out in the Annex
Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation             hereto,
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
should be calculated on currencies on the following basis :
                                                                                              Article 1
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band            The import levy referred to in Article 16(1 ) of amended
     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central            Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 0,31 per 100
     rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for          kilograms in respect of molasses falling within CN codes
     in the last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council           170310 00 and 1703 90 00.
     Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (3), as last amended by
     Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (4),
                                                                                              Article 2
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1989.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States.
                     Done at Brussels, 29 June 1989.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L  151 ,  30. 6. 1968, p, 42.
(2) OJ  No  L  171 ,  28. 6. 1978, p. 34.
(3) OJ  No  L  164,   24. 6. 1985, p. 1.
(4) OJ  No  L  153,   13. 6. 1987, p. 1.