31982R1717

No L 189 /44 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 7 . 82

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1717 / 82 of 30 June 1982 fixing the import levy on molasses

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN standard quality and laying down detailed rules for COMMUNITIES , calculating the cif price for molasses (*) ;

Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing oppor­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tunities on the world market are being established, the Economic Community, Commission must take account of all available infor­ mation on offers on the world market, on quotations Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No on the exchanges which are important for world trade, 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization on prices recorded on important third-country markets and on sales concluded in international trade of which of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­ tion ( EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Article 16 it has knowledge, either directly or through the agency of the Member States ; whereas , under the terms of (8 ) thereof, Article 7 of Regulation ( EEC) No 785/68 , the Commission may for this purpose take an average of Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary several prices as a basis , provided this average can be Committee , regarded as being representative of actual market trends ;

Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No Whereas the Commission must disregard information 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair products listed in Article 1(1 ) (c) of that Regulation ; marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to regarded as not representative of actual market trends the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the must also be disregarded ; threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1411 / 82 of 18 May 1982 fixing, for the 1982/ 83 marketing year, the derived interven­ Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration tion prices for white sugar, the intervention price for which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the adjusted, account being taken in particular of the diffe­ threshold prices and the amount of compensation for rences in the cost of transporting the goods between storage costs (3) ; the port of loading and the port of destination and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;

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 on which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Regulation the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or ( EEC) No 431 / 68 of 9 April 1968 determining the reduced in the light of the results obtained by standard quality for raw sugar and fixing he Commu­ applying Article 6 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 785/68 ; nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (4) ; Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception , be left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which Whereas this price must be based on the most fabour­ served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif able purchasing opportunities on the world market price is not available to the Commission and if the established for each product on the basis of quotations offer prices which are available and which appear not or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends from the standard quality for which the threshold would entail sudden and considerable changes in the price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for cif price ; molasses was defined by Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 785 / 68 of 26 June 1968 determining the Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas pursuant to Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EEC) (') OJ No L 177 , 1 . 7 . 1981 , p . 4 . No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the (2 OJ No L 74. 18 . 3 . 1982, p . 1 . (3) OJ No L 162 , 12 . 6 . 1982 , p . 3 0 OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4 . 1968 , p . 3 . O OJ No L 145 , 27 . 6 . 1968 , p . 12 .

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application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by relationg to the Community currencies referred to Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered in the previous indent ; only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a reduction of not less Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that than 0-06 ECU per 100 kilograms in relation to the the levy for molasses should be as set out in the levy previously fixed ; Annex hereto, Whereas in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Customs Tariff ; Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, Article 1 levies should be calculated on currencies following basis : The import levy referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regula­ — in the case of currences which are maintained in tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of relation to each other at any given moment within molasses, as set out in the Annex hereto . a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on the central rate, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Article 2 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1982.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1982. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1982 fixing the import levy on molasses

(ECU / 100 kg) CCT heading Description Levy No

17.03 Molasses, whether or not decolorized 0

(') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. n OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p. 34.