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REGULATION (EEC) No 1643/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 COMMUNITIES, and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 (5 ) of 17 April 1972 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ tunities on the world market are being established, the Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/. Commission must take account of all available infor­ 67/EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common mation on offers on the world market, on quotations organization of the market in sugar, as last amended on the exchanges which are important for world trade, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 602/74 (2), and in particular on prices recorded on important third-country Article 14 (7) thereof ; » markets , and on sales concluded in international trade Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary of which it has knowledge either directly or through Committee ; the agency of the Member States ;

Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/ Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­ 67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the tion (EEC) No 784/68 (6) of 26 June 1968 laying products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must disregard Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar information if the goods concerned are not of sound must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in whereas, the threshold price for each of these products an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­ was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (3) tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can of 29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/75 sugar be assumed not to be representative of the actual marketing year the derived intervention prices, the market trends must also be disregarded ; intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the threshold prices and the maximum amount of the production levy ; Whereas, of the offer price taken into consideration, those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­ adjustment is being made account must be taken of tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by the difference in the cost of transporting the goods Council Regulation ( EEC) No 431 /68 (4) of 9 April between the port of loading and the port of destina­ 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in calculating cif prices for sugar ; bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes under the t£rms of Regulation (EEC) Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ No 784/ 68 ; able purchasing opportunities on the world market established for each product on the basis of quotations Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation quality is to be comparable, the price increases or from the standard quality for which the threshold reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw No 1009 / 67/ EiiC must be added to or deducted from the offers taken into consideration in the case of white (') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6. 1974, p. 7 . (3) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 . (5) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972, p. 1 . (■») OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . (') OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .

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sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 following should be used to calculate the levies : must be applied ; — for currencies the exchange rates for - which are Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) kept at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual No 784/68 , a special cif .price may be established for sugar which has been specially treated or specially parity ; packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower, than — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the the cif price established pursuant to the provisions arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each referred to above ; of these currencies against the .Community curren­ cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception , be left specified period ; unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which served as a basis for the previous calculation of Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions the cif price is not available to the Commission and if that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be the offer prices which are available and which appear fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation , not to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends would entail sudden and considerable changes HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : in the cif price ;

Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the Article 1 elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less than 010 unit of account The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and fixed ; standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation . Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion No 1009/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for Article 2 in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1974.

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

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CCT heading Description of goods l.evy No

17 01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : Λ . Denatured : 1 . White sugar 0 II . Raw sugar 0

15 . Undenatured : [. White sugar 0 II . Raw sugar 0