31986R0600

No L 58 / 20 Official Journal of the European Communities 1.3.86

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 600/86 of 28 February 1986 laying down detailed rules for the application of the arrangements for imports into Portugal at a reduced levy of certain quantities of raw sugar intended for Portugese refineries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community fron­ COMMUNITIES, tier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar (3), the levy shall be adjusted on the basis of this difference according to the customary rules for raw sugar transac­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European tions on the world market ; Economic Community, Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Committee for sugar, Portugal ,

Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 1785 / 81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organ­ ization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC ) No 3768 / 85 (2), and in Article 1 particular Article 13(2 ), Article 16(7 ) and the second subparagraph of Article 39 thereof, 1 . The levy applicable to raw sugar of the standard quality as defined in Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC ) Whereas Article 303 of the Act of Accession of Spain No 431 /68 , which is imported from the third countries and Portugal, hereinafter called 'the Act', provides in referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 303 of particular that, during the period of seven years follow­ the Act, hereinafter called the reduced levy, shall be ing accession, the levy on raw cane sugar originating in equal to : certain third countries , which is imported into Portugal ( a) the intervention price for raw sugar referred to in up to a maximum annual quantity of 75 000 tonnes Article 3 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1785 / 81 expressed as white sugar, shall be equal to the amount applicable at the time of import, of the levy on raw sugar calculated in accordance with less the rules of the common organization of the markets, reduced by the difference between the threshold price (b) an amount equal to the average of the spot prices and the intervention price for raw sugar ; for raw sugar quoted on the London sugar market, brought, where appropriate, to the cif stage, during the first 20 days of the month preceding the month Whereas the common organization of the markets in in respect of which the reduced levy is fixed . the sugar sector is based, in particular, on the notion of the marketing year defined in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regula­ 2 . Where the polarization of the imported raw sugar tion ( EEC) No 1785 / 81 as beginning on 1 July and deviates from 96° the reduced levy shall , according to expiring on 30 June of the following year ; whereas, the circumstances, be increased or reduced by 0,14% therefore, in order to facilitate the management of the for each tenth of a degree of deviation recorded . arrangements provided for in Article 303 of the Act, the periods of application of the maximum annual quan­ tity referred to above should be determined by refer­ 3 . The reduced levy shall be fixed each month in res­ ence to the marketing year ; pect of the following month .

Whereas to ensure that these import arrangements are Article 2 properly managed and fulfil their purpose, specific provisions on import licences and communications should be laid down ; whereas , to the same end , it 1 . The maximum annual quantity referred to in the should be laid down that, if the yield of the raw sugar first subparagraph of Article 303 of the Act to which in question is different from that of the standard the reduced levy shall apply for each of the marketing quality as defined in Council Regulation ( EEC) years included in the period of seven years following accession shall be equal to 75 000 tonnes expressed as No 43 1 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining the standard white sugar.

(') OJ No L 177 , 1.7 . 1981 , p. 4. O OJ No L 362, 31 . 12 . 1985 , p. 8 . O OJ No L 89 , 10.4. 1968 , p. 3 .

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2 . The maximum annual quantity referred to in the 3 . The following indication shall be included in box second subparagraph of Article 303 of the Act to which 12 of the application for the import licence and of the the reduced levy shall apply shall : licence itself : ' import of raw sugar at a reduced levy originating (a) for the period 1 March to 30 June 1986, be equal to in . . . (indication of the country or countries 25 000 tonnes expressed as white sugar ; referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 303 ) pursuant to Regulation ( EEC ) No 600/ 86 .' (b) for the period 1 July to 31 December 1992, be equal to 37 500 tonnes expressed as white sugar. 4. The amount of the security relating to the licences referred to in paragraph 2 shall be 0,25 ECU per 100 kilograms net weight of sugar. Article 3

Any quantities of raw sugar imported into Portugal at a Article 5 reduced levy during either of the periods referred to in Article 2 that are in excess of the maximum quantity Portugal shall communicate to the Commission : fixed for the corresponding period, may, at the importer's request, be charged , up to a limit of 5 % of ( a) each month, in respect of the preceding month : the maximum quantity in question , against the period immediately following the period of import. No quan­ — the tel quel quantities of raw sugar in respect of tity may be so charged after 31 December 1992 . which the import licences referred to in Article 4 have been issued , — the tel quel quantities of raw sugar that have been effectively imported using the licences referred to Article 4 in Article 4 ;

1 . Licences for imports of raw sugar under the (b) every three months , the tel quel quantities of raw arrangements provided for in Article 303 of the Act sugar in question expressed as white sugar that shall be valid from the date on which they were issued have been refined during the three months preced­ until the end of the relevant period referred to in ing the communication . Article 2 during which they were issued . However, the communication shall be made not later than 31 July 1986 for the quantities of raw 2 . Applications for the licences referred to in para­ sugar refined during the period 1 March to 30 June graph 1 must be presented to the competent body of 1986 . Portugal and be accompanied by a declaration from a refiner in which the latter shall undertake to refine the quantity of raw sugar in question in Portugal within six Article 6 months of import .

Where the sugar in question has not been refined This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European within the specified time, the importer must pay an Communities. amount equal to the difference between the threshold price and the intervention price for raw sugar appli­ cable at the time this sugar was imported . It shall apply with effect from 1 March 1986 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all the Mem­ ber States .

Done at Brussels, 28 February 1986 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President