CELEX: 31988R1886
Language: en
Date: 1988-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1886/88 of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

1 . 7. 88                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 168/51
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1886/88
                                                          of 30 June 1988
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          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
Economic Community,                                                  calculate the alteration ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
Portugal,                                                            the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
                                                                     sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                    this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­          between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
tion (EEC) No 1107/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)          from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
thereof,                                                             provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     837/68 ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products              (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                        under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
                                                                     and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
                                                                     dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)       established pursuant to point B of Article 14 (1 ) of
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,                    Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the            by Regulation (EEC) No 1097/88 (*), for the fixing of the
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as                 import levy on the products falling within subheadings
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on                  1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50 of the
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar            combined nomenclature, and the variable element, per
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from              100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one hundred
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;                   times the basic import levy applicable as from the first of
                                                                     each month in the case of the products listed in Article 1
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy
837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­             must be fixed each month ;
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of
the levy for 100 kilograms of product ' must be fixed per            Whereas the Council has not to date adopted the prices
percentage point of sucrose content ;                                 for the 1988/89 marketing year, which commences
                                                                     on 1 July 1988 ; whereas the price factors determined
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to                 by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1912/88 Q, should
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to              accordingly be taken into account for the calculation of
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of             the levies in order to ensure that the import arrangements
the month preceding the month for which the basic                    continue to operate in the sector concerned ;
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the              should be calculated on the following basis :
levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from
that average ;                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
                                                                           tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                        of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period                     rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of                  the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
the month following the month for which the basic                          tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8) as last amended by Regula­
amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by                tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to above or
                                                                     O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(') OJ  No L  177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                              (Ó OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 7.
O   OJ  No L  110,   29. 4. 1988, p. 20 .                             I7) See page 115 of this Official Journal.
O   OJ  No L  151 ,  30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L  171 ,  28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                             O 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 July 1988.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 30 June 1988 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                    Vice-President
                                                            ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and
                                        certain other products in die 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                                  0,4311
                  1702 20 90                                  0,4311                                        —
                  1702 30 10                                    —
                                                                                                          52,78
                  1702 40 10                                    —
                                                                                                          52,78
                  1702 60 10                                    —
                                                                                                          52,78
                  1702 60 90                                  0,4311                                        —
                  1702 90 30                                    —
                                                                                                          52,78
                  1702 90 60                                  0,4311                                        —
                  1702 90 71                                  0,4311                                        —
                  1702 90 90                                  0,4311                                        —
                  2106 90 30                                    —
                                                                                                          52,78
                  2106 90 59                                  0,4311                                        —