CELEX: 31979R1329
Language: en
Date: 1979-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1329/79 of 29 June 1979 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 162/88                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             30 . 6 . 79
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1329/79
                                                       of 29 June 1979
                                            fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   on    prices   recorded on       important third-country
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    markets and on sales concluded in international, trade
                                                                 of which it has knowledge, either directly or through
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the
 Economic Community,                                             terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Commission may for this purpose take an average of
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­               several prices as a basis, provided this average can be
 zation of the market in sugar ( 1), as last amended by          regarded as being representative of actual market
                                                                  trends ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2) and in particular
Article 15 (7) thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the Commission must disregard information
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair
 Committee,                                                       marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer
                                                                 relates to a small quantity and is not representative of
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  the market ; whereas offer prices which can be
 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of              regarded as not representative of actual market trends
 the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;      must also be disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal
 to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the         Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration
 threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council               which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be
 Regulation (EEC) No 1289/79 of 25 June 1979 fixing,             adjusted, account being taken in particular of the
 for the 1979/80 sugar year, the derived intervention            differences in the cost of transporting the goods
 prices, the intervention price for raw beet, the                between the port of loading and the port of destina­
 threshold prices, the maximum amount of the produc­             tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;
 tion levy and the amount of the repayment to offset
 storage costs (3) ;                                             Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard
                                                                 quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending
Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the          on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or
 Commission for a Community frontier crossing point              reduced in the light of the results obtained by
which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation               applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ;
(EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the
 standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­
 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices         Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be
 for sugar (4) ;                                                 left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price
                                                                 which served as a basis for the previous calculation of
Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­              the cif price is not available to the Commission and if
 able purchasing opportunities on the world market               the offer prices which are available and which appear
 established for each product on the basis of quotations          not to be sufficiently representative of actual market
 or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation             trends would entail sudden and considerable changes
 from the standard quality for which the threshold               in the cif price ;
price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for
molasses was defined by Commission Regulation                    Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas
(EEC) No 785/68 of 26 June 1968 determining the                  pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation
standard quality and laying down detailed rules for              (EEC) No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules
calculating the cif price for molasses (5) ;                     for the application of levies on sugar (6), as last
                                                                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (7), the
Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­              levy is altered only if the variation in the elements
 tunities on the world market are being established, the         used to calculate it would entail an increase or a reduc­
Commission must take account of all available infor­
                                                                 tion of not less than 0-05 unit of account per 100 kilo­
mation on offers on the world market, on quotations              grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ;
on the exchanges which are important for world trade,
                                                                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regula­
(>) OJ  No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                            tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided
(3) See page 3 of this Official Journal.
(4) OJ  No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 .                           (^) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
(5) OJ  No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.                            (7) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.
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for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common               expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
Customs Tariff ;                                                   ECU ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                Whereas it follows from applying these provisions
levies should be calculated on the following basis :               that the levy for molasses should be as set out in the
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                   Annex hereto,
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     their effective parity ;
                                                                                           Article 1
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              The import levy referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regula­
     of these currencies recorded for a given -period in            tion (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be, in respect of
     relation to the Community currencies referred to               molasses, as set out in the Annex hereto .
     in the previous indent ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
March 1979 (!) laid down the coefficient for                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 29 June 1979 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(') OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
                                                         ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1979 fixing the import levy on molasses
                                                                                                     (ECU / 100 kg )
                     CCT
                   heading                               Description                                   Levy
                      No
               17.03           Molasses, whether or not decolorized                                      0