CELEX: 31973R1808
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1808/73 of the Commission of 4 July 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

5. 7. 73                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 183/27
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1808/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 4 July 1973
                fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                              products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  .    the period between the day on which it is fixed and
COMMUNITIES,                                                         the first day of the month following the month for
                                                                     which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                     white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 from the average referred to above or from the levy on
                                                                     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 No 1009/                         hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                        the alteration ;
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;                                            levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                   on their effective parity ;
                                                                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be calcu­                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                      in the previous subparagraph ;
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies              Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
 on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                    requested ;
 amount resulting from application of the rate of duty
 bound within GATT ;
                                                                     Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                                      on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                    white sugar occurring between the month in which
 ^Jo 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                 the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
 the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                    tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
 Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the                  of the difference between these two threshold prices,
 basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                      must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose                      in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 content ;                                                            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
 cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  first twenty days of the month preceding the month
  for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
 whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                                         Article 1
  on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount
  must be substituted for the average of the levies,                  The basic amount of the import levy on the products
  where that levy differs by' at least 0-40 unit of account           listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
  from that average ;                                                 67/ EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
                                                                      product, at 0-0777 unit of account per percentage
  Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every                        point of sucrose content.
  month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
  (') OJ  No  308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .                                                     Article 2
  (2) OJ  No  L 106, 20 . 4. 1973, p. 1 .
  (3) OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42.
  (4) OJ  No  L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 July 1973 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 4 July 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission