31985R1657

19 . 6 . 85 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 159 /43

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1657/85 of 18 June 1985 fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN derived intervention prices for white sugar, the inter­ COMMUNITIES, vention price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices and the amount of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European compensation for storage costs (*), Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1482/85 (2), and in particular Article 16 Article 1 (8) thereof,

Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1 785/8 1 The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­ provides that an import levy must be fixed by the lation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the products listed in Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation shall be as follows of that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calcufor the 1985/86 marketing year : lated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose content of each of those products and the levy on CCT ECU per white sugar ; heading Description tonne No Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the 12.04 Sugar beet, whole or sliced, application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by fresh, dried or powdered ; Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the sugar cane : levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for each marketing year, is obtained by multiplying by a A. Sugar beet : coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms I. Fresh 77,36 l of white sugar, between the threshold price valid for II. Dried or powdered 265,93 the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average of cif prices recorded during a reference period ; B. Sugar cane 53,19 whereas the coefficients and the reference period were fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;

Whereas the threshold price for white sugar was fixed Article 2 by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1484/85 of 23 May 1985 fixing for the 1985/86 marketing year the This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1985.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 June 1985.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. (2) OJ No L 151 , 10 . 6. 1985, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p. 42. (4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34. O OJ No L 151 , 10 . 6. 1985, p. 5.