31981R1772

1 . 7 . 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 175/59

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1772/81 of 30 June 1981 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 Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­ 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular and raw sugar (6), the Commission must disregard Article 15 (7) thereof, information if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, offer relates to small quantities and is hot representa­ tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No assumed not to be representative of the actual market 3330/74 provides fof charging a levy on imports of the trends must also be disregarded ; products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this whereas the threshold price for each of these products adjustment is being made account must be taken of was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1594/80 of the difference in the cost of transporting the goods 24 June 1980 fixing, for the 1980/81 sugar year, the between the port of loading and the port of destina­ derived intervention prices, the intervention price for tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the thre­ whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in shold prices, the maximum amount of the production bags, it must be reduced by 1-40 ECU per 100 kilo­ levy and the amount of the repayment to offset storage grams under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No costs and the coefficient for calculating the special 784/68 ; maximum quota (3) ; Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is quality is to be comparable, the price increases or calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­ reductions fixed pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by (EEC) No 3330/74 must be added to or deducted from the offers taken into consideration in the case of white Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard quality for raw sugar and sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective fixing the Community frontier crossing point for factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ; No 784/68 must be applied ; Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) able purchasing opportunities on the world market No 784/68, a special cif price may be established for established for each product on the basis of quotations sugar which has been specially treated or specially or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than from the standard quality for which the threshold the cif price established pursuant to the provisions referred to above ; price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 and Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which 17 April 1972(0 ; served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif price is not available to the Commission and if the Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ offer prices which are available and which appear not tunities on the world market are being established, the Commission must take account of all available infor­ to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends mation on offers on the world market, on quotations would entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ; (') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the (2) OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1980, p . 17. elements used to calculate it would entail an increase (3) OJ No L 160, 26. 6. 1980 , p. 16. (4) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . (*) OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10 .

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or a reduction of not less than 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­ serious disturbances on the markets, it is necessary, grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ; pending the Council's decision on the matter, to fix levies on the basis of the data used up to 30 June Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regula­ 1981 ; tion (EEC) No 3330/74, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that Customs Tariff ; the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set out in the Annex hereto, 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 on their effective parity, Article 1 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of The import levies referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regu­ these currencies recorded for a given period in lation (EEC) No 3330/74 shall be, in respect of white relation to the Community currencies referred to sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the in the previous indent ; Annex hereto. Whereas the Council has not yet definitely fixed the prices applicable for the new marketing year in the Article 2 sugar sector ; whereas, in order to prevent a hitch of continuity in the levy schemes that would cause This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 . For the Commission The President « Gaston THORN

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

(ECU/100 kg)

CCT heading Description Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, in solid form : A. White sugar : flavoured or coloured sugar 12-30 B. Raw sugar 8-81 (')

(') 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 .