CELEX: 31980R0215
Language: en
Date: 1980-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 215/80 of 31 January 1980 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

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                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 215/80
                                                        of 31 January 1980
               fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                              products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the period between the day on which it is fixed and
COMMUNITIES,                                                         the first day of the month following the month for
                                                                    which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               white sugar differs by at least 0-73 ECU from the
Economic Community,                                                  average referred to above or from the levy on white
                                                                     sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in this
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        case, the basic amount must be equal to one­
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                    hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
                                                                     the alteration ;
zation of the market in sugar (x), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Committee,
                                                                         relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                         a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                           their effective parity ;
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of
the 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 (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                       in the previous indent ;
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 GAIT ;                                                  tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
                                                                     of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                     must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                  in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by               Regulation (EEC) No 837/68,
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose
content ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first
                                                                                               Article 1
20 days of 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               The basic amount of the import levy on the products
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted                listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by            3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product,
at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;                                0-1476 ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each
month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                               Article 2
(»)  OJ  No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(*)  OJ  No  L 170,  27.  6. 1978, p. 1 .
(>)  OJ  No  L 151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
(<)  OJ  No  L 171 , 28.  6. 1978, p. 34.                             1980 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 31 January 1980.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President