31988R2336

No L 203/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 7. 88

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2336/88 of 27 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, (EEC) No 431 /68 and that for white sugar by Regulation (EEC) No 793/72 of 17 April 1972 0 ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­ Economic Community, nities on the world market are being established, the Commission must take account of all available informa­ Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the Portugal, exchanges which are important for world trade, on prices recorded on important third-country markets, and on sales concluded in international trade of which it has Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 knowledge either directly or through the agency of the of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the Member States ; market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2250/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, Whereas, however, pursuant to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 of 26 June 1968 laying down detailed rules for calculating cif prices for white sugar and raw Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, 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 Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 quantities and is not representative of the market ; provides for charging a levy on imports of the products whereas offer prices which can be assumed not to be listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ; representative of the actual market trends must also be disregarded ; Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; Whereas any offer or prices taken into consideration which are not for goods delivered in bulk cif Rotterdam must be adjusted ; whereas when this adjustment is being Whereas the import levy on white sugar and raw sugar made account must be taken of the difference in the cost must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; of transporting the goods between the port, of loading and whereas the threshold price for each of these products was the port of destination and between the port of loading fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2252/88 of 19 July and Rotterdam ; whereas, if the price or the offer relates 1988 fixing for the 1988/89 marketing year the derived to goods in bags, it must be reduced by 0,73 ECU per 100 intervention prices for white sugar, the intervention price kilograms under the terms of Article 4 of Regulation for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B beet, the (EEC) No 784/68 ; threshold prices and the amount of compensation for storage costs (3) ; Whereas, if information on sugar of the standard quality is to be comparable, the price increases or reductions Whereas the cif price for raw sugar and white sugar is fixed pursuant to Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be added to or deducted from the offers calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Council taken into consideration in the case of white sugar ; Regulation (EEC) No 431 /68 of 9 April 1968 determining whereas, in the case of raw sugar, the corrective factors the standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Commu­ provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68 nity frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for must be applied ; sugar (4) ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 784/68, a special cif price may be established for sugar Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable which has been specially treated or specially packed if the purchasing opportunities on the world market established offer price for such sugar is lower than the cif price esta­ for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on blished pursuant to the provisions referred to above ; that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the Whereas a cif price may, by way of exception, be left standard quality for raw sugar was defined by Regulation unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 198, 26. 7. 1988 . 0 OJ No L 198, 26. 7. 1988 . 0 OJ No L 94, 21 . 4. 1972, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968 , p. 3 . fó 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 the levies for white sugar and raw sugar should be as set elements used to calculate it would entail an increase or a 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 (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be, in respect of white sugar tion to each other at any given moment within a band 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 1676/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 636/87 (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 28 July 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1988 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 27 July 1988 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar (ECU/100 kg)

CN code Levy

1701 11 10 30,94 0 17011190 30,94 (') 1701 12 10 30,94 (') 1701 12 90 30,94 0 1701 91 00 42,68 1701 99 10 42,68 1701 99 90 42,68 0

(') 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. (2) In accordance with Article 16 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 this amount is also applicable to sugar obtained from white and raw sugar containing added substances other than flavouring or colouring matter.

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