31974R2533

No L 271 / 34 Official Journal of the European Communities 5. 10 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2533/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levy on molasses

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN mation on offers on the world market, on quotations COMMUNITIES , on the exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices recorded on important third-country Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European markets and on sales concluded in international trade Economic Community ; of which it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ terms of Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the 67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common Commission may for this purpose take an average of organization of the market in sugar, as last amended several prices as a basis, provided this average can be by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular regarded as being representative of actual market Article 1 4 (7) thereof ; trends ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Whereas the Commission must disregard information if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/ marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer 67/ EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the relates to a small quantity and is not representative of products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; the market ; whereas offer prices which can be Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal regarded as not representative of actual market trends to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the must also be disregarded ; threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 600/74 (3) of 29 April 1974 Whereas, of the offer prices taken into consideration, fixing for the 1974/75 sugar marketing year the those which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must derived intervention prices, the intervention prices for be adjusted, account being taken in particular of the raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the differences in the cost of transporting the goods threshold prices and the maximum amount of the between the port of loading and the port of destina­ production levy and amended by Regulation (EEC) tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; No 251 8 /74 (4);

Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard Commission for a Community frontier crossing point quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or (EEC) No 431 /68 (5) of 9 April 1968 determining the reduced in the light of the results obtained by standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­ applying Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ; nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar ; Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ which served as a basis for the previous calculation of able purchasing opportunities on the world market the cif price is not available to the Commission and if established for each product on the basis of quotations the offer prices which are available and which appear or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation not to be sufficiently representative of actual market from the standard quality for which the threshold trends would entail sudden and considerable changes price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for in the cif price ; molasses was defined by Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 785/ 68 (6) of 26 June 1968 determining the standard quality and laying down detailed rules for Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas calculating the cif price for molasses ; pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ( 7) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ for the application of levies on sugar, as last amended tunities on the world market are being established, the by Regulation ( EEC) No 1491 / 70 (8 ), the levy is altered Commission must take account of all available infor­ only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less (•) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . than 0-05 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in rela­ (2) OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 . tion to the levy previously fixed ; (3 ) OJ No L 172, 27 . 6 . 1974, p. 3 . (4) OJ No L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . ( 7) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42 . (*) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 12. (8 OJ No L. 165, 28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .

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Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions tion No 1009/ 67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for that the levy for molasses should be fixed as shown in in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common the Annex to this Regulation, Customs Tariff ;

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

Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October requested ; 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

ANNEX

(u. a. / 100 kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.03 Molasses, whether or not decolourized 0