CELEX: 31989R1141
Language: en
Date: 1989-04-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1141/89 of 28 April 1989 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 119/ 52                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                     29 . 4. 89
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1141/89
                                                         of 28 April 1989
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of
                                                                    the month following the month for which the basic
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
Economic Community,                                                 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 Act of Accession of Spain and                  equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
Portugal,                                                           calculate the alteration ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
tion (EEC) No 1069/89 (?), and in particular Article 16 (8)          the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
thereof,                                                            sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
                                                                    amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                     this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
                                                                     from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
Whereas Article 16 ( 1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products              837/68 :
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)        Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,                   ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the            under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as                 and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on                 dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the iixed element
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar            established pursuant to point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regu­
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from             lation (EEC) No 2727/75 of the Council (*), as last
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 166/89 (6), for the
                                                                     fixing of the import levy on the products falling within
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  CN        codes   1702 30 91 ,      1702 30 99, 1702 40 90   and
837/68 of the Commissionm of 28 June 1968 on detailed                 1702 90 50, and the variable element, per 100 kilograms
rules for the application of levies on sugar (3), as last            of dry matter, being equal to 100 times the basic import
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides                 levy applicable as from the first of each month in the case
that the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of               of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation
product must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose                (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each
content ;                                                            month ;
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of
                                                                     should be calculated on the following basis :
the month preceding the month for which the basic
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the
levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from                   tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                            of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
that average ;
                                                                            rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                            the last subparagraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regu­
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                         lation (EEC) No 1676/85 Q, as last amended by Regu­
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period                      lation (EEC) No 1636/87 (8),
(') OJ  No L  177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             0     OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  114,   27. 4. 1989, p. 1 .                             (6)   OJ   No  L 20, 25. 1 . 1989, p. 16.
(3) OJ  No L  151 ,  30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             0     OJ   No  L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L  171 ,  28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                            (8)   OJ   No  L 153 , 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                                      Article 1
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
    previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;                 The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
                                                                     (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
                                                                     indicated in the Annex hereto.
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 May 1989.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                 Done at Brussels, 28 April 1989 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 28 April 1989 fixing the import levies on syrups and
                                        certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                             (ECU)
                                                Basic amount per percentage point
                    CN code                   of sucrose content and per 100 kg net       Amount of levy per 100 kg of dry matter
                                                    of the product in question
                   1702 20 10                                 0,3926
                   1702 20 90                                 0,3926                                        —
                   1702 30 10                                   —
                                                                                                          48,93
                   1702 40 10                                   —
                                                                                                          48,93
                   1702 60 10                                   —
                                                                                                          48,93
                   1702 60 90                                 0,3926                                        —
                   1702 90 30                                   —
                                                                                                          48,93
                   1702 90 60                                 0,3926                                        —
                   170290 71                                  0,3926                                        —
                   1702 90 90                                 0,3926                                        —
                  2106 90 30                                    —
                                                                                                          48,93
                  2106 90 59                                  0,3926                                        —