CELEX: 31973R1844
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1844/73 of the Commission of 9 July 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

10 . 7. 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                                   No L 187/7
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1844/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                               of 9 July 1973
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
COMMUNITIES,                                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                          Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
Economic Community ;                                                           requested ;
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 1738/73
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                           to the information at present available to the Commis­
by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular                          sion that the levies at present in force should be
Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;                                                      altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73 (3)                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                           The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                            No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                              standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                        the Annex to this Regulation.
     on their effective parity ;
                                                                                                              Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 July
     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in                        1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 9 July 1973 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
(») OJ No 308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973, p. 1 .
$ OJ No L 176, 30. 6. 1973, p. 30.
                                                                      ANNEX
                                                                                                                            («.a./100 kg)
                       CCT
                     heading                                     Description of goods                                         Levy
                        No
               17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                       A. Denatured :
                                            I. White sugar                                                                    7-48
                                           II. Raw sugar                                                                      5-24 (*)
                                       B. Undenatured :
                                            I. White sugar                                                                    7-48
                                           II. Raw sugar                                                                      5-24 (i )
                (*) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 •/• ; if the yield is other than 92 •/#, the levy applicable is calculated
                    in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/6S.