31993R3010

No L 270/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 10 . 93

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 3010/93 of 29 October 1993 fixing the reduced levy on imports into Portugal of certain quantities of raw sugar intended for Portuguese refineries

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, convert amounts expressed in third country currencies and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; Economic Community, whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (4); markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1548/93 (2), and in particular Article 16 (5) Whereas application of the abovementioned provisions thereof, gives a reduced rate import levy for the raw sugar concerned of the amount indicated in this Regulation, Whereas Article 16 a ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785 /81 provides for a reduced rate levy to apply during the period 1 January to 30 June 1993 to Portuguese imports of certain quantities of raw sugar originating in specified HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : third countries and for use by Portuguese refineries ; Whereas Article 16 a (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/8 1 Article 1 stipulates that this reduced levy is to equal the interven­ tion price for raw sugar as indicated in Article 3 (2) of that The reduced levy on imports into Portugal of the quanti­ Regulation applicable when the sugar is imported, less an ties of raw sugar for refining (CN codes 1701 11 10 and amount equal to the average of the spot prices, adjusted 1701 12 10) indicated in Article 16 a of Regulation (EEC) where necessary to the cif stage, quoted on the London No 1785/81 shall, for standard quality, be ECU 24,62 per market during the first 20 days of the month preceding 100 kg. that for which the reduced levy amount is set ; Whereas pursuant to Article 1 6 a (5) the reduced levy is to Article 2 be set each month for the following month ; Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (3) are used to 1993 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 October 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. (2) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993 , p. 10 . (3) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (4) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5 . 1993, p. 106.