31978R1503

1 . 7. 78 No L 178/39 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1503/78

of 30 June 1978

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 (EEC) No 3330 /74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­ zation of the market in sugar ( J), as last amended by tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar Article 15 (7) thereof, and raw sugar (6), 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 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) Nov 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of be assumed not to be representative of the actual 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 prices 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 1399/78 of adjustment is being made account must be taken of 20 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 sugar year, the the difference in the cost of transporting the goods derived intervention prices, the intervention price 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, the maximum amount of the produc­ whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in tion levy and the amount of the repayment to offset bags, it must be reduced by 0-06 unit of account per storage costs, and fixing the coefficient for calculating 100 kilograms under the terms of Regulation (EEC) the special maximum quota (3 ) ; No 784/68 ; Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­ Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by quality is to be comparable, the price increases or Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation determining the standard quality for raw sugar and (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from fixing the Community frontier crossing point for the offers taken into consideration in the case of white calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ; sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ 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 Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC) from the standard quality for which the threshold No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw sugar which has been specially treated or specially sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than and that for white sugar by Regulation ( EEC) No the cif price established pursuant to the provisions 793 /72 of 17 April 1972 (5) ; referred to above ;

Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ tunities on the world market are being established, the Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception , be left Commission must take account of all available infor­ unchanged for a limited period if the offer price mation on offers on the world market, on quotations which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif price is not available to the Commission and if (>) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 . the offer prices which are available and which appear (2 ) OJ No L 170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 1 . not to be sufficiently representative of actual market (3) OJ No L 170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p. 6. (4) OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p. 3 . (5 ) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4 . 1972, p. 1 . (*) 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 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regulation, fixed ;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; Article 1

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the The levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation following should be used to calculate the levies : (EEC) No 3330/74 are, in respect of white sugar and — for currencies the exchange rates for which are standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in kept at any given moment within a band of the Annex to this Regulation . 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual parity ; Article 2 — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1978 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

(UM. / 100 kg)

CCT heading Description Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form :

A. White sugar ; flavoured or coloured sugar 27.73

B. Raw sugar 22.99 (1)

(') Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 92 % , the levy applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 .