CELEX: 31974R0226
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-29
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 226/74 of the Commission of 28 January 1974 altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 25/ 14                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           29 . 1 . 74
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 226/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 28 January 1974
                              altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar
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 to
Economic Community ;                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
67/ EEC (•) of 18 December 1967 on the common                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules, criteria
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                  and other provisions contained in the Regulation
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2) ;                                  (EEC) No 176/74 to the information at present avail­
                                                                      able to the Commission that the special export levy at
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          present in force should be altered as shown in the
608/72 (3) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be                   Annex to this Regulation,
applied in cases of considerable price rises on the
world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 (2)
thereof ;                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas the special export levy on white sugar and
raw sugar was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No                            The special export levy on sugar provided for in the
1 76/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                      No 1009 /67/ EEC fixed in the Annex to amended
217/74 (5).
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 176/74 is altered as shown in
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                   the Annex to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 29 January
      on their effective parity ;                                      1974 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 January 1974.
                                                                                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 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4)  OJ  No   L 20, 24 . 1 . 1974, p. 29 .
 5)  OJ  No   L 22, 26 . 1 . 1974, p. 61 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                                     (u.a . H00 kg)
                                                                                                                 Amount of the
               CCT heading
                    No                                        Description of goods                               special export
                                                                                                                        levy
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. Denatured :
                                         I. white sugar                                                               21-00
                                        II . raw sugar                                                                 17-50 i 1 )
                                     B. Undenatured :
                                              I. White· sugar                                                          21-00
                                        ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar                                        17-50 i 1 )
            (') This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 % yield . If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from
                92 •/• the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 1076/72 .