31991R1855

29 . 6 . 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 168 /29

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1855/91 of 28 June 1991 fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, prices recorded during a reference period ; whereas the coefficients and the reference period were fixed by Article Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ; Economic Community, Whereas the threshold price for white sugar has been Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1718/91 of 13 Portugal, June 1991 fixing, for the 1991 /92 marketing year, the derived intervention prices for. white sugar, the interven­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 tion price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the beet, the threshold prices, the amount of compensation market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) for storage costs and the prices to be applied in Spain and No 464/91 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, Portugal H, Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 provides that an import levy must be fixed by the Commission on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (b) of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calculated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose content of each Article 1 of those products and the levy on white sugar ; Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of the The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regula­ Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the tion (EEC) No 1785/81 on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (b) of that Regulation shall be as set out in the Annex application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regu­ hereto. lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the levy appli­ cable to these products is obtained by multiplying by a coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms of Article 2 white sugar, between the threshold price valid for the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average of cif This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1991 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1991 .

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. (2) OJ No L 54, 28 . 2. 1991 , p. 22. (3) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p. 42. (4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34. OJ No L 162, 26. 6. 1991 , p. 23.

No L 168 / 30 29 . 6 . 91 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1991 fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

(ECU/tonne)

CN code Import levies

121291 10 68,24 12129190 234,58 1212 92 00 46,92