31992R1736

No L 179/ 124 1 . 7. 92 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1736/92 of 30 June 1992 fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the threshold price for white sugar has been fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1718/91 of 13 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European June 1991 fixing, for the 1991 /92 marketing year, the Economic Community, derived intervention prices for white sugar, the interven­ tion price for raw sugar, the minimum prices for A and B Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and beet, the threshold prices, the amount of compensation Portugal, for storage costs and the prices to be applied in Spain and Portugal (*) ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the Whereas, pending the fixing of the prices applicable for market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) the 1992/93 marketing year, the threshold prices appli­ No 61 /92 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, cable on 30 June 1992 should be laid down pursuant to Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1599/92 of 24 June provides that an import levy must be fixed by the 1992 on precautionary measure and the suspension of Commission on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (b) of advance fixing in certain agricultural sectors (% that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calculated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose content of each of those products and the levy on white sugar ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the Article 1 application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regu­ The import levies referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regula­ lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the levy appli­ tion (EEC) No 1785/81 on the products listed in Article 1 cable to these products is obtained by multiplying by a (1 ) (b) of that Regulation shall be as set out in the Annex coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilograms of hereto. white sugar, between the threshold price valid for the relevant marketing year and the arithmetic average of cif prices recorded during a reference period ; whereas the Article 2 coefficients and the reference period were fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1992.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1992.

For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission

(•) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 6, 11 . 1 . 1992, p. 19. 0 OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p. 42. O OJ No L 162, 26. 6. 1991 , p. 23 . 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34. (0 OJ No L 169, 24. 6. 1992, p. 12.

1 . 7. 92 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 179/ 125

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1992 fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane

(ECU/tonne)

CN code Import levies

121291 10 70,72 121291 90 243,10 1212 92 00 48,62