CELEX: 31974R0269
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 269/74 of the Commission of 31 January 1974 altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar

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                                REGULATION (EEC) No 269/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 31 January 1974
                              altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Economic Community ;                                                   in the previous subparagraph ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
 67/ EEC ( !) of 18 December 1967 on the common                     Whereas it follows from applying the rules, criteria
                                                                    and other provisions contained in the Regulation
 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended
                                                                    (EEC) No 176/74 to the information at present avail­
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928/73 (2);
                                                                    able to the Commission that the special export levy at
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       present in force should be altered as shown in the
 608 /72 (3) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be               Annex to this Regulation,
 applied in cases of considerable price rises on the
 world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 (2)
 thereof ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;                                                                               Article 1
 Whereas the special export levy on white sugar and
                                                                    The special export levy on sugar provided for in the
 raw sugar was fixed lay Regulation (EEC) No                        second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 1 76/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                No 1009/ 67/ EEC fixed in the Annex to amended
 235/74 (5).
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 176/74 is altered as shown in
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                the Annex to this Regulation .
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                       Article 2
       relation to each other, at any given moment,
       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
       on their effective parity ;                                  1974 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 31 January 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(')   OJ  No  308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2)   OJ  No  L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7.
(3 )  OJ  No  L 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4)   OJ  No  L 20, 24. 1 . 1974, p. 29 .
(5)   OJ  No  L 26, 30 . 1 . 1974, p. 14.
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                                   Iu.a.1100 kg)
                                                                                                                Amount of the
               CCT heading
                    No                                       Description of goods                               special export
                                                                                                                      levy
            17.01                   Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. Denatured :
                                         I. white sugar                                                             20-00
                                        II. raw sugar                                                                18-50 H
                                     B. Undenatured :
                                             I. White sugar                                                          20-00
                                        ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar                                      18-50 (»)
            (') This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 °/o yield. If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from
                92 •/# the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1076/72 .