31974R1644

No L 175/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 6 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1644/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1974 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 Commission may for this purpose take an average of Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ several prices as a basis, provided this average can be 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common regarded as being representative of actual market organization of the market in sugar, as last amended trends ; by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 602/74 (2), and in particular Article 1 4 (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 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/ the market ; whereas offer prices which can be 67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the regarded as not representative of actual market trends 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, of the offer prices taken into consideration , threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must Regulation ( EEC) No 1 600/74 (3) of 29 April 1974 be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the fixing for the 1 974/75 sugar marketing year the differences in the cost of transporting the goods derived intervention prices, the intervention prices for between the port of loading and the port of destina­ raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; threshold prices and the maximum amount of the i production levy ; 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 43 1 /68 (4 ) of 9 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­ Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception , be nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price for sugar ; 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 (5 ) 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 (b) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules calculating the cif price for molasses ; for the application of levies on sugar, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 149 1 /70 ( 7), the levy is altered Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ only if the variation in the elements used to calculate tunities on the world market are being established , the it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less Commission must take account of all available infor­ than 0 05 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in rela­ mation on offers on the world market, on quotations tion to the levy previously fixed ; on the exchanges which are important for world trade , Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( I ) of Regula­ (') OJ No 30 «, IX . 12 . 1967, p. I. tion No 1009 / 67 / EEC , the nomenclature provided for (2 ) OJ No L 1 72, 27 . 6 . 1 974, p. 7 . (») OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 . (■») OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 196 «, p. 3 . ( b) O ) No L 151 , .W. 6 . 1968 , p. 42 . (5) OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 12 . ( 7) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .

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in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions Customs Tariff ; that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation , Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based A rticle 1 on their effective parity ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the The levy referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each 1009/67/ EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed of these currencies recorded for a given period, in as shown in the Annex to this Regulation . relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Article 2 Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was requested ; 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

ANNEX

(tt.a.HOO kg) ' CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.03 Molasses , whether or not decolourized 0