CELEX: 31973R2806
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2806/73 of the Commission of 15 October 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 289 / 22                                      Official Journal of the European Communities                              16 . 10 . 73
                                       REGULATION ( EEC) No 2806/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                                   of 15 October 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/ EECC ) 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 ! 4 (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 ( 1 ) 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 1 009/67/ 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 lew 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 GATE ;                                                            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 ( ; ) ot 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 1 49 1 / 70 (4 ), provides that the                      Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ;
 basic amount of the lew for 100 kilogrammes of
 product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose
 content ;
                                                                                HAS ADOPTED PHIS 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                                                     Art icli /
 for which        the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
 whereas , however, the lew applicable to white sugar                          The basic amount ot the import levy on the products
 on the dav 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 lew differs In at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                                product , at 0-0793 unit of account per percentage
 from that average ;                                                            point of sucrose content .
 Whereas       the        basic    amount          must  be   fixed  every
 month ; whereas it must , however, be altered during
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 15 October 1973 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                 Member of the Commission