CELEX: 31977R0670
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 670/77 of 31 March 1977 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

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                                         COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 670/77
                                                            of 31 March 1977
                  fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                                 products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        the first day of the month following the month for
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                       white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 from the average referred to above or from the levy on
 Economic Community,                                                   white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
                                                                       this case, the basic amount must be equal to one­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                     the alteration ;
 zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 31 38 /76 (2), and in particular                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 Article 15 (7) thereof,                                               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
 Committee,                                                                 relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                            on their effective parity ;
 Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                   in the previous subparagraph ;
 lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the
 basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                  Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of                 on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                white sugar occurring between the month in which
 on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                     the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
 amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                 tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
 bound within GATT ;                                                   of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                       must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation ( EEC)                     in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                   Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ,
 application of levies on sugar (3 ), as amended by Regu­
 lation ( EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the basic
 amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product must
 be fixed per percentage of sucrose content ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 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
 20 days of the month preceding the month for which                                            Article 1
 the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,
 however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day                The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted                 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by             3330/74 is hereby fixed , per 100 kilograms of product,
 at least 0-40 unit of account from that average ;                     at 0-2042 unit of account per percentage point of
                                                                       sucrose content .
 Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
 the period between the day on which it is fixed and
                                                                                               Article 2
(')   OJ   No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. I.
(-')  OJ   No  L 354,  24.  12. 1976, p. I.
(J )  OJ   No  L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42 .                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
(->)  OJ   No  L 165,  28 . 7 . 1970, p. 8 .                            1977 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 31 March 1977 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President