CELEX: 31979R0853
Language: en
Date: 1979-05-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 853/79 of 30 April 1979 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 108/ 18                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 5 . 79
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 853/79
                                                            of 30 April 1979
               fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                                 products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          the first day of the month following the month for
COMMUNITIES,                                                           which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                       white sugar differs by at least 0-60 unit of account
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   from the average referred to above or from the levy on
Economic Community,                                                    white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
                                                                        this case, the basic amount must be equal to one­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       the alteration ;
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EE.C) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                                 relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                             their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                     — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                             of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                             in the previous indent ;
(1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                    Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of                   March 1979 (5) laid down the coefficient for
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                  expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
                                                                        ECU ;
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty
bound within GATT ;                                                     Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                                        on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                        white sugar occurring between the month in which
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                     the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by                  tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the                      of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                        must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose                           in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
content ;
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first
20 days of the month preceding the month for which
the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,                                                  Article 1
however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by
                                                                        The basic amount of the import levy on the products
                                                                        listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ;
                                                                        3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product,
Whereas      the   basic     amount      must    be   fixed   each
                                                                        0-3251 ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
the period between the day on which it is fixed and                                               Article 2
(')  OJ  No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2)  OJ  No  L 170,  27.  6. 1978 , p. 1 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1979 .
(3)  OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.
(4)  OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                              (5) OJ No L 84, 4 . 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 30 April 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President