31981R1808

No L 181 /24 Official Journal of the European Communities 2 . 7 . 81

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1808 / 81 of 1 July 1981 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regula­ COMMUNITIES, tion (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European and raw sugar (5), the Commission must disregard Economic Community, information if the goods concerned are not of sound Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an 1785/ 81 of 30 June 1981 on the common offer relates to small quantities and is not representa­ organization of the market in sugar ('), and in parti­ tive of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be cular Article 16 (8) thereof, assumed not to be representative of the actual market trends must also be disregarded ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the adjustment is being made account must be taken of products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; the difference in the cost of transporting the goods Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar between the port of loading and the port of destina­ must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; tion and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ; whereas the threshold price for each of these products whereas, if the price or the offer relates to goods in was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1788 /81 of bags, it must be reduced by 0-73 ECU per 100 kilo­ 30 June 1981 fixing, for the 1981 /82 marketing year, grams under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation the derived intervention prices for white sugar, the (EEC) No 784/ 68 ; intervention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard for A and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount quality is to be comparable, the price increases or of compensation for storage costs (2) ; reductions fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is (EEC) No 1785/ 81 must be added to or deducted from calculated by the Commission for a Community fron­ the offers taken into consideration in the case of white tier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective Council Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) determining the standard quality for raw sugar and No 784/ 68 must be applied ; fixing the Community frontier crossing point for Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) calculating cif prices for sugar (3) ; No 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for Whereas this price must be based on the most favour­ sugar which has been specially treated or specially packed if the offer price for such sugar is lower than able purchasing opportunities on the world market established for each product on the basis of quotations the cif price established pursuant to the provisions referred to above ; or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard quality for which the threshold Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for raw unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which sugar was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 and served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of price is not available to the Commission and if the 17 April 1972 (4) ; offer prices which are available and which appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ would entail sudden and considerable changes in the tunities on the world market are being established, the Commission must take account of all available infor­ cif price ; mation on offers on the world market, on quotations Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the on the exchanges which are important for world trade, elements used to calculate it would entail an increase on prices recorded on important third-country or a reduction of not less than 0-24 ECU per 100 kilo­ markets, and on sales concluded in international trade grams in relation to the levy previously fixed ; of which it has knowledge either directly or through Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­ the agency of the Member States ; tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p . 4. Customs Tariff ; (2) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 37. (3) OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p . 3 . 4 OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p . 1 . 0 OJ No L 145, 27. 6 . 1968 , p. 10 .

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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, whereas it follows from applying these provisions that levies should be calculated on the following basis : the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set out in the Annex hereto,

— 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 Article 1 effective parity, The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Annex hereto . arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in Article 2 relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1981 .

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

Done at Brussels, 1 July 1981 . For the Commission The President Gaston THORN

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 1 July 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 16-83 B. Raw sugar 12-58 (')

(') 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 .