CELEX: 31973R1607
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1607/73 of the Commission of 15 June 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 159/48                             Officiial Journal of the European Communities                             16 . 6 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1607/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 15 June 1973
              fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
COMMUNITIES,                                                       month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                   the period between the day on which it is fixed and
                                                                   the first day of the month following the month for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
pean Economic Community ;                                          white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                   from the average referred to above or from the levy
                                                                    on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; where- "
Having regard to Council Regulation No                              as, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to
1009/67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the com­                     one hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
mon organization of the market in sugar, as last                    calculate the alteration ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and
in particular Article 14 (7) thereof ;
                                                                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                   levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
1009/67/EEC provides for charging a levy on im­                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
ports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that                  relation to each other, at many given moment,
Regulation ;                                                             within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
                                                                         based on their effective parity ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be cal­                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
culated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on                        the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
the basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                 each of these currencies recorded for a given
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned                           period, in relation to the Community currencies
and of the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however,                       referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                 Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the                was requested ;
 rate of duty bound within GATT ;
                                                                    Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                    justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                 for white sugar occurring between the month in
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                   which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
 Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the                  application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                     hundredth      of the difference     between these    two
 product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­                threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
 tent ;                                                              the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
                                                                     Article 7 ( 6) of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
 Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
 to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
 first twenty days of the month preceding the month
 for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                                            Article 1
 whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar
 on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                 The basic amount of .the import levy on the pro
 must be substituted for the average of the levies,                  ducts listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No
 where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of ac­                 1009/67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes
  count from that average :                                           of product, at 0-0655 unit of account per percentage
                                                                      point of sucrose content.
                                                                                               Article 2
  (>) OJ No 308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1.
  («) OJ No L 25 , 30. 1. 1973, p. 1 .
  (») OJ No 1 . 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 June
  i*\ OI No I. 114. 13 . 5 . 1969, p . 9.                             1973 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 15 June 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission