CELEX: 31995R0960
Language: en
Date: 1995-04-28 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 960/95 of 28 April 1995 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 97/30          I EN I              Official Journal of the European Communities                                  29 . 4. 95
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 960/95
                                                        of 28 April 1995
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of
                                                                   the month following the month for which the basic
                                                                   amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             at least ECU 0,73 from the average referred to above or
 Community,                                                        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 sugar used to
                                                                   calculate the alteration ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EC) No 283/95 (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
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products           amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                     this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
                                                                   between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
                                                                   from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
                                                                   provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)     837/68 ;
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the 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 on maple sugar
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from
application of the rate of duty bound within GAIT ;                Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
                                                                   (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
                                                                   under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
                                                                   and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­         established pursuant to point B of Article 11 (1 ) of
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation         Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/920, as last amended
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of            by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden,
the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per            for the fixing of the import levy on the products falling
percentage point of sucrose content ;                              within CN codes 1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and
                                                                    1702 90 50, and the variable element, per 100 kilograms
                                                                   of dry matter, being equal to 100 times the basic import
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to              levy applicable as from the first of each month in the case
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to           of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of          (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each
                                                                   month :
the month preceding the month for which 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 for the average of the
levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
that average ;
                                                                   Whereas as a consequence of the amendment of Article 1
                                                                   (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 and by virtue of
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;
                                                                   Article 16 thereof, a levy is chargeable on imports of
                                                                   inuline syrup ; whereas the levy is defined in paragraph 6
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period             (a) of the said Article 16 as equal, per 100 kilograms of
                                                                   dry matter, to the levy fixed in accordance with paragraph
(') OJ  No L  177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             6 of that Article multiplied by a coefficient of 1,9 ;
(2) OJ  No L  34, 14. 2. 1995, p. 3.
0   OJ  No L  151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
(4) OJ  No L  171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                            0 OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
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 Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
 overseas countries and territories with the European
 Economic Community ('), no levies shall apply on
 imports of products originating in the overseas countries
 and territories ;                                                                            Article 1
 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (2), as last
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 150/95 (3), are used to             The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
 convert amounts expressed in third country currencies             (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall
 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural        be as indicated in the Annex hereto.
 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
 whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
 tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (4), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EC) No 157/95 0 ;                                                                      Article 2
 Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­
 sions that the import levies on the products concerned
 should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation,           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1995.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 28 April 1995.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No  L  263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L  387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L  108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
0   OJ No  L  24, 1 . 2. 1995, p. 1 .
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                                                                       ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 28 April 1995 altering the basic amount of the import
                                    levy on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                            (ECU)
                                                          Basic amount per percentage point                  Amount of levy per 100 kg
                       CN code                         of sucrose content and per 100 kg net                        of dry matter (')
                                                              of the product in question (')
                     1702 20 10                                          0,4939
                     1702 20 90                                          0,4939                                            —
                     1702 30 10                                            —
                                                                                                                          59,06
                     1702 40 10                                            —
                                                                                                                          59,06
                     1702 60 10                                            —
                                                                                                                          59,06
                     1702 60 90 1 0 f)                                     —
                                                                                                                        112,21
                     1702 60 90 90 (3)                                   0,4939                                            —
                     1702 90 30                                            —
                                                                                                                          59,06
                     1702 90 60                                          0,4939                                            —
                     1702 90 71                                          0,4939                                            —
                     1702 90 80                                            —
                                                                                                                        112,21
                     1702 90 99                                          0,4939                                            —
                    2106 90 30                                             —
                                                                                                                          59,06
                    2106 90 59                                           0,4939                                            —
  (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
  (2) Taric code : Inulin syrup. For the purposes of classification under this subheading, 'Inulin syrup' means the immediate product obtained by
      hydrolysis of inulin or oligofructoses.
  (3) Taric code : CN code 1702 60 90, other than inulin syrup.