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REGULATION ( EEC) No 2531 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN on the exchanges which are important for world trade , COMMUNITIES , on prices recorded on important third-country markets , and on sales concluded in international trade Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of which it has knowledge either directly or through Economic Community ; the agency of the Member States ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 / 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common Whereas , however, pursuant to Commission Regula­ organization of the market in sugar, as last amended tion ( EEC) No 784 /68 ( 7) of 26 June 1968 laying by Regulation ( EEC) No 2476/74 (2 ), and in particular down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white Article 14 (7) thereof ; sugar and raw sugar, the Commission must disregard information if the goods concerned are not of sound Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in Committee ; an offer relates to small quantities and is not represen­ tative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) "of Regulation No 1009 / be assumed not to be representative of the actual 67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; market trends must also be disregarded ;

Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar Whereas , of the offer price taken into consideration , must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; those which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif whereas the threshold price for each of these products Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this was fixed by Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1 600 /74 (3 ) adjustment is being made account must be taken of of 29 April 1974 fixing for the 1974/ 75 sugar the difference in the cost of transporting the goods marketing year the derived intervention prices, the between the port of loading and the port of destina­ intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; prices for beet , the threshold prices and the maximum whereas , if the price or the offer relates to goods in amount of the production levy and amended by Regu­ bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per lation ( EEC) No 25 1 8 / 74 (4 ) ; 100 kilogrammes under the terms of Regulation ( EEC) Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is No 784/ 68 ; calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­ tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Whereas , if information on sugar of the standard Council Regulation ( EEC) No 431 /68 (5 ) of 9 April quality is to be comparable , the price increases or 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar reductions fixed pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for No 1009 / 67 / EEC must be added to or deducted from calculating cif prices for sugar ; the offers taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ factors provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 784/ 68 able purchasing opportunities on the world market must be applied ; established for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard quality for which the threshold Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC) price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for sugar was defined by Regulation ( EEC) No 431 / 68 sugar which has been specially treated or specially and that for white sugar by Regulation ( EEC) No packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than 793 / 72 ( 6 ) of 17 April 1972 ; the cif price established pursuant to the provisions referred to above ; Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ tunities on the world market are being established , the Commission must take account of all available infor­ Whereas a cif price may , by way of exception , be left mation on offers on the world market , on quotations unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which served as a basis for the previous calculation of (') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967 , p . 1 . the cif price is not available to the Commission and if (-) O'l No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p . 70, the offer prices which are available and which appear (3) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p . 3 . not to be sufficiently representative of actual market (4) 0 | No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p . 1 . (5) Oj No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . ( b) O I No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972 , p . I. ( 7 ) OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .

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trends would entail sudden and considerable changes of these currencies against the Community curren­ in the cif price ; cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a specified period ; Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail an increase Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions or a reduction of not less than 0-10 unit of account that the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be per 100 kilogrammes in relation to the levy previously fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation , fixed ;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion No 1009 / 67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Article 1 Customs Tariff ; The levies referred to in Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the No 1009 /67/ EEC are, in respect of white sugar and following should be used to calculate the levies : standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in — for currencies the exchange rates for which are the Annex to this Regulation . kept at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual Article 2 parity ; — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 4 October 1974 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

( tt.il .) tOO kg )

CCT heading Description of goods levy No

17 01 Beel sugar and cane sugar, solid :

A. Denatured : I. White sugar 0 II . Raw sugar 0

15 . Undenatured : I. White sugar 0 11 . Raw sugar 0