31989R1898

No L 184/ 10 30 . 6. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1898/89 of 29 June 1989 fixing the import levy on molasses

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

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­ 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 know­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ledge, either directly or through the agency of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Regulation (EEC) No 785/68, the Commission may for No 1 069/89 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis, provided this average can be regarded as being representa­ tive of actual market trends ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,

Whereas the Commission must disregard information if Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable provides for charging a levy on imports of the products quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small listed in Article 1 (1 ) (c) of that Regulation ; quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of actual market trends must also be disregarded ; Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­ Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration tion (EEC) No 1255/89 of 3 May 1989 fixing, for the which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted, 1989/90 marketing year, the derived intervention prices account being taken in particular of the differences in the for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices, and the port of destination and between the port of the amount of compensation for storage costs and the loading and Rotterdam ; prices to be applied in Spain and Portugal (3) ;

Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on Commission for a Community frontier crossing point the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying 431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ; standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar 0 ; Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable price is not available to the Commission and if the offer purchasing opportunities on the world market established prices which are available and which appear not to be for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on sufficiently representative of actual market trends would that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ; quality for which the threshold price is fixed ; whereas the standard quality for molasses was defined by Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 of the Commission of 26 June 1968 Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of (>) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the 0 OJ No L 114, 27. 4. 1989, p. 1 . O OJ No L 126, 9. 5. 1989, p. 4. 0 OJ No L 89, 10. 4. 1968, p. 3 . 0 OJ No L 145, 27. 6. 1968, p. 12.

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application of levies on sugar (l), as last amended by Regu­ these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­ lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the tion to the Community currencies referred to in the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail previous indent and the aforesaid correcting factor ; an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per 100 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ; Whereas it follows from applying these provisions that the levy for molasses should be as set out in the Annex Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation hereto, (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on currencies on the following basis : Article 1 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ tion to each other at any given moment within a band The import levy referred to in Article 16(1 ) of amended of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 0,31 per 100 rate, multiplied by the correcting factor provided for kilograms in respect of molasses falling within CN codes in the last subparagraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council 170310 00 and 1703 90 00. Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1636/87 (4), 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 1 July 1989.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1989.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p, 42. (2) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34. (3) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .