CELEX: 31973R1982
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1982/73 of the Commission of 20 July 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

21 . 7. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 201 /39
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1982/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 20 July 1973
                  fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                             products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
  COMMUNITIES,                                                      month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                    the period between the day on which it is fixed and
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             the first day of the month following the month for
  Economic Community ;                                              which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                   white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                    from the average referred to above or from the . levy on
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                      white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
  67/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                      this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
  organization of the market in sugar, as last amended              hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
  by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular             the alteration ;                                       «
  Article 14 (7) thereof ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  Committee ;                                                       ;— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
  Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                         within a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based
  67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                   on their effective parity ;
  products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;            — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
  Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
  ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be calcu­                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
  lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                     in the previous subparagraph ;
  basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars
  expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of             Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
  the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies            on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
  on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                 white sugar occurring between the month in which
  amount resulting from application of the rate of duty              the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
  bound within GATT ;                                                tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
                                                                    of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                     must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
  Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
  No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
  the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                  Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
  Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the
  basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
  product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose
~ content ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
                                                                                             Article 1 '
  to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
  cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
  first twenty days of the month preceding the month                The basic amount of the import levy on the products
  for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                  listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
  whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar               67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
  on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                product, at 0 0791 unit of account per percentage
  must be substituted for the average of the levies,                 point of sucrose content.
  where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
  from that average ;
                                                                                             Article 2
  (•) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
  (2) OJ No L 106, 20 . 4. 1973 , p. 1 .
  (3) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July
  («) OJ No L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                              1973 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 20 July 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission