CELEX: 31973R1473
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1473/73 of the Commission of 4 June 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

5 . 6 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                                   No L 148 /7
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1473/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                               of 4 June 1973
                                 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                              in the previous subparagraph ;
Economic Community ;                                                           Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                                   provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 254/73
67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                                  to the information at present available to the Commis­
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                           sion that the levies at present in force should be
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 74/73 (2), and in particular                          altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Article 14(7) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 254/73 (3)
and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                           The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation
                                                                               No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                               standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                              the Annex to this Regulation.
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;
                                                                                                             Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 June 1973.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
                Done at Brussels, 4 June 1973 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 30 .
                                                                     ANNEX
                                                                                                                         (u.a./lOO kg)
                     CCT
                    heading                                     Description of goods                                        Levy
                      No
               17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                      A. Denatured :
                                           I. White sugar                                                                   3-94
                                          II. Raw sugar                                                                     2-91 f1)
                                      B. Undenatured :
                                           I. White sugar                                                                   3-94
                                          II. Raw sugar                                                                     2-91 i1 )
              (*) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 */« ; if the yield is other than 92 •/•, the levy applicable is calculated
                  in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.