CELEX: 31985R1778
Language: en
Date: 1985-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1778/85 of 28 June 1985 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

29 . 6 . 85                          Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 169/9
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1778/85
                                                    of 28 June 1985
              fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 between the day on which it is fixed and the first day
COMMUNITIES,                                                   of the month following the month for which the basic
                                                               amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          by at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to
Economic Community,                                            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-hundredth of the levy on white
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   sugar used to calculate the alteration ;
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization
of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1482/85 (2), and in particular
Article 16 (8) thereof,                                        Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                               on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
                                                               white sugar occurring between the month in which
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                   the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
Committee,
                                                               tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth
                                                               of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                 must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the         in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;        Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­              Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis      1 ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of the sucrose content (including other sugars                 comprises, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of          variable element and a fixed element, with the latter,
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies         per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one­
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the              tenth of the fixed element established pursuant to
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty          point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
bound within GATT ;                                            2727/75 (*) for the fixing of the import levy on the
                                                               products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)               Common Customs Tariff, and the variable element,
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the            per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by         hundred times the basic import levy applicable as
                                                               from the first of each month in the case of the
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product          products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;        No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each
                                                               month ;
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first         Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
20 days of the month preceding the month for which             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,
however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by           relation to each other at any given moment within
at least 0,73 ECU from that average ;                               a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                    their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                 provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period              No 974/71 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 855/84 0,
(•) OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
O OJ No L 151 , 10 . 6. 1985, p. 1 .                           0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                          (6) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
b) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                           O OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .
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 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in                                                Article 1
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent, and the aforesaid coeffi­                The import levies on the products listed in Article 1
     cient ;                                                          ( 1 ) (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall
                                                                      be as indicated in the Annex hereto .
 Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­
 sions that the import levies on the products concerned                                             Article 2
 should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regula­
 tion ,                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1985.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 June 1985.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                     Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                              ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1985 fixing the import levies on syrups and
                                            certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                  (ECU)
                                                                                                                  •
                                                                                                 Basic amount
      CCT                                                                                    per percentage point   Amount of levy
                                                                                              of sucrose content
    heading                                    Description                                                            per 100 kg
        No                                                                                   and per 100 kg net      of dry matter
                                                                                                of the product
                                                                                                  in question
17.02             Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                  flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                  mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                  C. Maple sugar and other syrup                                                    0,4856                —
                  D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                       malto-dextrine) :
                             I. Isoglucose                                                            —  -
                                                                                                                         58,23
                       ex II . Other                                                                0,4856                —
                  E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                      0,4856                —
                  F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry
                          state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose                                  0,4856                —
21.07             Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                  F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                       III . Isoglucose                                                               —
                                                                                                                         58,23
                       IV . Other                                                                   0,4856                —