CELEX: 31988R1904
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1904/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 168/96                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  1 . 7. 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1904/88
                                                       of 30 June 1988
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       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 Treaty establishing the European             tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the
Economic Community,                                               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
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                         knowledge either directly or through the agency of the
                                                                  Member States ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation
market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed
No 1107/88 (2j, and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof,         rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw
                                                                  sugar (% the Commission must disregard information if
                                                                  the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,           quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to small
                                                                  quantities and is not representative of the market ;
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products           representative of the actual market trends must also be
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                    disregarded ;
Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar              Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration
must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ;         which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam
                                                                   must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being
                                                                   made account must be taken of the difference in the cost
Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices             of transporting the goods between the port of loading and
for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences                    the port of destination and between the port of loading
on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined             and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates
by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/88 (3) should               to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100
accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of           kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation
the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements        (EEC) No 784/68 ;
continue to operate in the sector concerned ;
Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is            Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality
calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier              is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions
crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council             fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers
Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining
the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­           taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ;
nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for       whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors
sugar (4) ;                                                        provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68
                                                                   must be applied ;
Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable
purchasing opportunities on the world market established          Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on           784/68, a special cif price may be established for sugar
that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard          which has been specially treated or specially packed if the
quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the       offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­
standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation           blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ;
(EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation
(EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 0 ;
                                                                   Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left
0   OJ  No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which
0   OJ  No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 20.                              served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif
0   See page 115 of this Official Journal.
0   OJ  No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 .
0   OJ  No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 10.
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price is not available to the Commission and if the offer                               these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
prices which are available and which appear not to be                                   tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
sufficiently representative of actual market trends would                               previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ;
entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;
Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the                           Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that
elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a                        the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should he as set
                                                                                   out in the Annex hereto,
reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms in
relation to the levy previously fixed ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies                                                         Article 1
should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­                          The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regula­
     tion to each other at any given moment within a band                           tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar
     of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central                           and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the Annex
                                                                                    hereto.
     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
     Article 3 ( 1 ), last indent of Regulation (EEC) No
     1676/85 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
     1636/87 (2) ;                                                                                                 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 1988.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 June 1988 .
                                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                                          ANNEX
                   to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and
                                                                         raw sugar
                                                                                                                            (ECU/100 kg)
                                            CN code                                                       Levy
                                          1701 11 10                                                     32,30 (')
                                           1701 11 90                                                    32,30 (')
                                           1701 12 10                                                    32,30 (')
                                           1701 12 90                                                    32,30 (')
                                           1701 91 00                                                    43,1 1
                                           1701 99 10                                                    43,11
                                           1701 99 90                                                    43,11
                   (') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 %, the levy applicable is calculated in
                       accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 .
(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .