CELEX: 31973R3042
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3042/73 of the Commission of 8 November 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

9 . 11 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 309/39
                               REGULATION           EEC    No 3042/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 8 November 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
Economic Community ;                                                 from the average referred to above or from the levy on
                                                                     white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                         this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                        hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 the alteration ;
by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2 ), and in particular
Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                          within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                     on their effective parity ;
products listed in Article 1 (i ) of that Regulation ;               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009 / 67/ EEC must be calcu­                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                       in the previous subparagraph ;
basis of the sucrose content ( including other sugars
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies               Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                    on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                white sugar occurring between the month in which
bound within GATT ;                                                  the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                     tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)                    of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                     must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                    in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the                  Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ;
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose
content ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
first twenty days of the month preceding the month                                            Article 1
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                 The basic amount of the import levy on the products
on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
must be substituted for the average of the levies,                   67/ EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account             product, at 0-0526 unit of account per percentage
fro^n that average ;                                                 point of sucrose content.
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                              Article 2
(')   OJ  No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2)   OJ  No  L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7.
(3)   OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 November
(*)   OJ  No  L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                             1973 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 8 November 1973 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission