CELEX: 31974R3171
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3171/74 of the Commission of 16 December 1974 fixing a special export levy on sugar beet and sugar cane

No L 338 / 10                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             17 . 12 . 74
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3171 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 16 December 1974
                               fixing a special export levy on sugar beet and sugar cane
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the list of products to which the special levy
COMMUNITIES,                                                         is to apply was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     3170 /74 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 /
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
by Regulation ( EEC) No 2476/ 74 (2), and in particular                  within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange on
Article 16 (5) thereof ;                                                 their effective parity ;
                                                                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Committee ;                                                              of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
Whereas, under Article 16 of Regulation No 1009/                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
67/ EEC, where the Community or any region thereof                       in the previous subparagraph ;
cannot be supplied with sugar at prices within the                   Whereas the introduction of the special export levy is
limits of the threshold price, provision may be made                 in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
for charging a special export levy on sugar ; whereas a              Committee for Sugar,
special export levy on sugar has been introduced since
November 1973 ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 3170/74 (3) of 16
December 1974 the Commission laid down detailed                                               Article 1
rules for the application of the special export levy on
sugar beet and sugar cane ;                                          A special export levy is introduced on the products
                                                                     specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of Regulation No 1009 /
Whereas, in view of the present situation on the sugar               67/ EEC, the amount of which shall be as shown in
market, both within the Community and outside, it                    the Annex to this Regulation .
has become necessary to apply a special export levy
for the products specified in the Annex and to fix the                                        Article 2
amount ;
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be fixed                   following its publication in the Official Journal of
per metric ton of product ;                                          the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 December 1974 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   The President
                                                                              Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
( l ) OJ No .WK , 18 . 12 . 1967 , p. 1 .
(: ) OJ No L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70 .
( 3 ) See page 8 of this Official Journal .
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                                                       ANNEX
                                                                                           u.a . per
               CCT heading                         Description of goods                     metric
                   No
                                                                                              ton
             12.04         Sugar beet (whole or sliced), fresh , dried or powdered ; sugar
                           cane :
                           A. Sugar beet :
                              ex I. Fresh, of a sugar content equal to or greater than
                                       12-5 %                                               89-50
                                  II . Dried or powdered                                   307-67
                           B. Sugar cane                                                    61-53