31993R1693

No L 159/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 7. 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1693/93

of 30 June 1993

fixing the import levy on molasses

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, standard quality for raw sugar and fixing the Community frontier crossing point for calculating cif prices for sugar P) ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Whereas this price must be based on the most favourable Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 purchasing opportunities on the world market established of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the for each product on the basis of quotations or prices on market in sugar ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) that market adjusted for any deviation from the standard No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) thereof, 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 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 of 28 December 1992 on the unit of account and the determining the standard quality and laying down detailed rules for calculating the cif price for molasses (8) ; conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (3), and in particular Article 5 thereof, Whereas, when the most favourable purchasing opportu­ nities on the world market are being established, the Whereas Article 16(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 Commission must take account of all available informa­ provides for charging a levy on imports of the products tion on offers on the world market, on quotations on the listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (c) of that Regulation ; 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 Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision ledge, either directly or through the agency of the 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the Member States ; whereas, under the terms of Article 7 of overseas countries and territories with the European Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 , the Commission may for Economic Community (4), no levies shall apply on this purpose take an average of several prices as a basis, imports of products originating in the overseas countries and territories ; provided this average can be regarded as being representa­ tive of actual market trends ;

Whereas the import levy on molasses must be equal to the threshold price less the cif price ; whereas the Whereas the Commission must disregard information if threshold price for molasses was fixed by Council Regula­ the goods concerned are not of sound and fair marketable tion (EEC) No 1550/93 of 14 June 1993 fixing, for the quality or if the price quoted in an offer relates to a small 1993/ 1994 marketing year, the derived intervention prices quantity and is not representative of the market ; whereas for white sugar, the intervention price for raw sugar, the offer prices which can be regarded as not representative of minimum prices for A and B beet, the threshold prices, actual market trends must also be disregarded ; the amount of compensation for storage costs (*) ;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (6) Whereas any prices or offer taken into consideration lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable which are not for delivery cif Rotterdam must be adjusted, in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a account being taken in particular of the differences in the result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93 cost of transporting the goods between the port of loading marketing year ; and the port of destination and between the port of loading and Rotterdam ;

Whereas the cif price for molasses is calculated by the Commission for a Community frontier crossing point which was fixed at Rotterdam by Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, if information on molasses of the standard 431 /68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 determining the quality is to be comparable, prices must, depending on the quality of the molasses offered, be increased or (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. reduced in the light of the results obtained by applying 0 OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 10. Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 785/68 ; 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 263 , 19. 9 . 1991 , p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 15. 0 OJ No L 89 , 10 . 4. 1968 , p . 3. (6) See page 127 of this Official Journal. (8) OJ No L 145, 27. 6 . 1968, p. 12.

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Whereas the cif price may, by way of exception, be left rate established during the reference period from 29 June unchanged for a limited period if the offer price which 1993, as regards floating currencies, should be used to served as a basis for the previous calculation of the cif calculate the levies, price is not available to the Commission and if the offer prices which are available and which appear not to be sufficiently representative of actual market trends would HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : entail sudden and considerable changes in the cif price ;

Whereas the levy must be fixed each week ; whereas Article 1 pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of the Commission of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the 1 . The import levy referred to in Article 16 (1 ) of Regu­ application of levies on sugar ('), as last amended by Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1785/81 is now ECU 0,20 per 100 kilo­ lation (EEC) No 1428/78 (2), the levy is altered only if the variation in the elements used to calculate it would entail grams in respect of molasses falling within CN codes 1703 10 00 and 1703 90 00 . an increase or a reduction of not less than ECU 0,06 per 1 00 kilograms in relation to the levy previously fixed ; 2. However, no import levy applies to OCT originating Whereas in accordance with Article 21 (1 ) of Regulation products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision (EEC) No 1785/81 , the nomenclature provided for in this 91 /482/EEC. Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; Article 2 Whereas, in order to make it possible for the levy arrange­ ments to function normally, the representative market This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1993 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1993 .

For the Commission

Rene STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(<) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p . 42. 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.