CELEX: 31994R0735
Language: en
Date: 1994-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 735/94 of 30 March 1994 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 87/40                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   31 . 3 . 94
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 735/94
                                                        of 30 March 1994
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         at least ECU 0,73 from the average referred to above or
                                                                    from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic
                                                                    amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
Community,                                                          calculate the alteration :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
tion (EC) No 1 33/94 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)          sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
thereof,
                                                                    amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                     this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
                                                                    between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                        837/68 :
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the           Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (*)
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as                lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on                in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a
                                                                    result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar
                                                                     marketing year ;
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­           (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation          under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of             and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per              dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
percentage point of sucrose content ;                                established pursuant to point B of Article 11 (1 ) of
                                                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 766/92 (*), as amended by
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 2193/93 Q, for the fixing of the
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to                import levy on the products falling within CN codes
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to             1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of            the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
 the month preceding the month for which the basic                   being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
                                                                     as from the first of each month in the case of the
 amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
 applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the           products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the               1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
 levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
 that average ;
                                                                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision
 Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
 whereas it must, however, be altered during the period              overseas countries and territories with the European
 between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of            Economic Community (8), no levies shall apply on
 the month following the month for which the basic                   imports of products originating in the overseas countries
 amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by         and territories ;
 (') OJ  No L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                               O OJ No L 159, 1 . 7. 1993, p. 127.
 (2) OJ  No L 22, 27. 1 . 1994, p. 7.                                 (4 OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
 0   OJ  No L  151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                              o OJ No L 196, 5. 8 . 1993, p. 22.
  O  OJ  No L   171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                             (8) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies                                                       Article 1
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                           The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1)
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­                      (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­                        indicated in the Annex hereto.
lation (EEC) No 1 068/93 (3), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 547/94 (4) ;
Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­                                                     Article 2
sions that the import levies on the products concerned
should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation,                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1994.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 30 March 1994.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1994 fixing the basic amount of the import levy
                                       on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                       (ECU)
                                                         Basic amount per percentage point                  Amount of levy per 100 kg
                         CN code                       of sucrose content and per 100 kg net                     of dry matter (')
                                                            of the product in question (')
                       1702 20 10                                      0,3843                                          —
                       1702 20 90                                      0,3843                                          —
                       1702 30 10                                        —                                            48,10
                       1702 40 10                                        —                                            48,10
                       1702 60 10                                        —                                            48,10
                       1702 60 90                                      0,3843                                          —
                       1702 90 30                                        —                                            48,10
                       1702 90 60                                      0,3843                                           —
                        1702 90 71                                     0,3843                                           —
                        1702 90 90                                     0,3843                                           —
                       2106 90 30                                        —                                            48,10
                       2106 90 59                                      0,3843                                           —
      (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
  (') OJ   No  L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
  (2) OJ   No  L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
  (3) OJ   No  L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
  (4) OJ   No  L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .