CELEX: 31973R2163
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-09
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2163/73 of the Commission of 8 August 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

No L 221 / 8                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                   9 . 8 . 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2163/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 8 August 1973 '
                                           fixing the import levy on molasses
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 toin
Economic Community ;                                                     the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
67/EEC ( 1 ) of 18 December 1967 on the common                       provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1739/73
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 to the information at present available to the Commis­
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928 /73 (2), and in particular               sion that the levy at present in force should be altered
Article 14(7) thereof ;                                              as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levy on molasses was fixed by
Regulation (EEC) No 1739/73 and subsequent                                                   Article 1
amending Regulations (3) ;
                                                                     The levy referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation No
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally,                   1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                 as shown in the Annex to this Regulation.
— 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 9 August
    on their effective parity ;                                       1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 8 August 1973.
                                                                                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 176, 30. 6. 1973, p. 32.
                                                           ANNEX
                                                                                                       (u.a./100 kg)
                    CCT
                  heading                              Description of goods                              Levy
                     No
              17.03               Molasses, whether or not decolourized                                    0