CELEX: 31973R3278
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3278/73 of the Commission of 5 December 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 337/8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  6. 12. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3278/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 5 December 1973
                                           fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                    relation to the Community currencies referred toin
Economic Community ;                                                     the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                        Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                       provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1739/73
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                to the information at present available to the Commis­
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928 /73 (2), and in particular              sion that the levy at present in force should be altered
Article 14(7) thereof ;                                             as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levy on molasses was fixed by
Regulation (EEC) No 1739/73 and . subsequent                                                Article 1
amending Regulations (3) ;
                                                                    The levy referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation No
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally,                   1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                            Article 2
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based              This Regulation shall enter into' force on 6 December
     on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 5 December 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7.
(3) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6 . 1973 , p. 32.
                                                            ANNEX
                                                                                                       (u.a.HOO kg)
                     CCT
                   heading                             Description of goods                              Levy
                      No
               17.03                Molasses, whether or not decolourized                                  0