CELEX: 31978R2265
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2265/78 of 29 September 1978 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

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                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2265/78
                                                        of 29 September 1978
                  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 ( 1), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) 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
 Committee,                                                                relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                           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
 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                   in the previous subparagraph ;
 lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the
 basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                 Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of                on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies               white sugar occurring between the month in which
 on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                    the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
 amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
bound within GATT ;                                                   of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                      must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                  Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
 application 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 percentage 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
20 days of the month preceding the month for which                                             Article 1
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 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilograms of product,
at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ;                     at 0-2633 unit of account per percentage point of
                                                                      sucrose content .
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
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 .
(3)   OJ   No  L 151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
(4)   OJ   No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                           1978 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 29 September 1978 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President