CELEX: 31973R3441
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3441/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

22 . 12 . 73                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 353/7
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 3441 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 21 December 1973
                               fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                               relation to the Community currencies referred to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      in the previous subparagraph ;
Economic Community ;                                                   Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                           provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1738 /73
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                          to the information at present available to the Commis­
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                   sion that the levies at present in force should be
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2), and in particular                altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
Article 14(7) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73 (3)                                           Article 1
and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                       The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    No 1009/67/ EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                   standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    the Annex to this Regulation .
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                                      Article 2
      on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 22
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                 December 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 21 December 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .
I1) OJ No L 199, 19. 7. i 973, p. 7.
(3 ) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6 . 1973, p. 30 .
                                                              ANNEX
                                                                                                         (u .a .1100 kg1
                      CCT
                    heading                              Description of goods                              Levy
                       No
                17.01               Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. Denatured :
                                          I. White sugar                                                      0
                                         II . Raw sugar                                                       0
                                    B. Undenatured :
                                          I. White sugar                                                      0
                                         II . Raw sugar                                                       0