31973R1739

No L 176/32 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 6. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1739/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN (EEC) No 785/68 (5) of 26 June 1968 determining COMMUNITIES, the standard quality and laying down detailed rules for calculating the cif price f6r molasses ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing op­ pean Economic Community ; portunities on the world market are being estab­ lished, the Commission must take account of all available information on offers on the world mar­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ ket, on quotations on the exchanges which are im­ EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organ­ portant for world trade, on prices recorded on im­ ization of the market in sugar, as last amended by portant third-country markets and on sales con­ Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular cluded in international trade of which it has know­ Article 14 (7) thereof ; ledge, either directly or through the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/67/ may for this purpose take an average of several EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the prices as a basis, provided this average can be re­ products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; garded as being representative of actual market trends ;

Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal Whereas the Commission must disregard informa­ to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the tion if the goods concerned are not of sound and threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an Regulation (EEC) No 1637/73 (3) of 18 June 1973 fix­ offer relates to a small quantity and is not represen­ ing for the 1973/74 marketing year the derived inter­ tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can vention prices, the intervention prices for raw beet be regarded as not representative of actual market sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold trends must also be disregarded ; prices, the guaranteed quantity, the maximum amount of the production levy and the special Whereas, of the offer prices taken into considera­ maximum quota ; tion, those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the differences in the cost of transporting the Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by goods between the port of loading and the port of the Commission for a Community frontier crossing destination and between the port of loading and Rot­ point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regu­ terdam ; lation (EEC ) No 431 /68 (4) of 9 April 1968 determin­ ing the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif Whereas , if information on molasses of the standard prices for sugar ; quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or reduced in the light of the results obtained by Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ; able purchasing opportunities on the world market established for each product on the basis of quota­ Whereas cif price may, by way of exception, be left tions or prices on that market adjusted for any devia­ unchanged for a limited period if the offer price tion from the standard quality for which the thres­ which served as a basis for the previous calculation hold price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality of the cif price is not available to the Commission for molasses was defined by Commission Regulation and if the offer prices which are available and which appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends would entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ; (*) OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973 , p. 1 . (s) OJ No L 165 , 22. 6. 1973 , p . 1 . (4) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 . (5) OJ No L 145 , 27. 6 . 1968 , p . 12.

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Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each (EEC) No 837/68 (*) of 28 June 1968 on detailed of these currencies recorded for a given period, in rules for the application of levies on sugar, as last relation to the Community currencies referred to amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491/70 (2), the in the previous subparagraph ; levy is altered only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was requested ; reduction of not less than 0 05 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­ fixed ; sions that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regu­ lation No 1009/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­ Article 1 mon Customs Tariff ; The levy referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, No 1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby levies should be calculated on the following basis : fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation. — in the case currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July on their effective parity ; 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 . For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(*) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p . 42 . (l) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7. 1970, p . 8 .

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

(u.a.HOO kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.03 Molasses , whether or not decolourized 0