31987R2054

No L 192/38 Official Journal of the European Communities 11 . 7 . 87

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2054/87 of 10 July 1987 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Commission must take account of all available informa­ tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European recorded on important third-country markets, and on Economic Community, sales concluded in international trade of which it has knowledge either directly or through the agency of the Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Member States ; Portugal,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed market in sugar (^ as last amended by Regulation (EEC) rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, sugar (*), the Commission must disregard information if the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to small Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, quantities and is not representative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 representative of the actual market trends must also be provides for charging a levy on imports of the products disregarded ; listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;

Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam whereas the threshold price for each of these products was must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1913/87 of 2 July made account must be taken of the difference in the cost 1987 fixing for the .1987/ 1988 marketing year the derived of transporting the goods between the port of loading and intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price the port of destination arid between the port of loading for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates threshold prices and the amount of compensation for to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100 storage costs (3) ; kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 ; Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­ fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for 1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers sugar (4) ; taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ; whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable must be applied ; purchasing opportunities on the world market established for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation 784/68 , a special cif price may be established for sugar (EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation which has been specially treated or specially packed if the (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972(0 ; offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­ blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ; Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­ nities on the world market are being established, the Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which 0 OJ No L 25, 28 . 1 . 1987, p. 1 . served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif (3) OJ No L 183, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 3 . (4) OJ No L 89, 10 . 4. 1968 , p. 3 . 0 OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 . OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968 , p. 10 .

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price is not available to the Commission and if the offer these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ prices which are available and which appear not to be tion to the Community currencies referred to in the sufficiently representative of actual market trends would previous indent and the aforesaid coefficient ; entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ; Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that Whereas the levy is altered only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set out in the Annex hereto, reduction of not less than 0,24 ECU per 100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 21 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ;

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies Article 1 should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ The import levies referred to in Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band tion (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar and standard quality raw sugar, as set out in the Annex of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central hereto ; rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Article 3 ( 1 ), last indent of Regulation (EEC) No 1 676/85 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (2); Article 2 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July 1987.

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

Done at Brussels, 10 July 1987.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 10 July 1987 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 52,31 0 B. Raw sugar 43,92 (l)(2) l

(') 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 . (*) These amounts will be adjusted, where appropriate, on the basis of the decisions taken in respect of prices for the 1987/88 marketing year.

(') OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p . 1 .