CELEX: 31985R2163
Language: en
Date: 1985-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2163/85 of 31 July 1985 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 203 / 18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 8 . 85
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2163/85
                                                         of 31 July 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.
(:) OJ  No L  151 , 10 . 6 . 1985 , p. 1 .                         (*) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(') OJ  No L  151 , 39 . 6. 1968, p. 42.                           (<■) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 .
 4) OJ  No L  171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                          Q 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                                              Article 2
sions that the import levies on the products concerned
should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regula­                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
tion,                                                                 1985 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1985 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                     Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                        Vice-President
                                                               ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 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                                                    0,4801               —
                   D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                        malto-dextrine) :
                              I. Isoglucose                                                                              57,68
                        ex II . Other                                                                0,4801
                   E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                      0,4801               —
                   F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry
                           state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose                                  0,4801               —
 21.07             Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                   F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                        III . Isoglucose                                                                                 57,68
                        IV. Other                                                                    0,4801