CELEX: 31973R3394
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3394/73 of the Commission of 17 December 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

18 . 12 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    No L 348 /7
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 3394/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 17 December 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 1738 /73
67/ EEC (') 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 1 928/73 (2), and in particular                   altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
Article 14 (7) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738 /73 (3)                                              Article 1
and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                          The levies referred to in Article 14 (1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                       No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                      standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                       the Annex to this Regulation .
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2·25 % , a rate of exchange based                                           Article 2
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                      This    Regulation   shall enter into        force on   18
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                    December 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 December 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 . 30 .
                                                                 ANNEX
                                                                                                            (u.a./100 kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                                 Description of goods                              Levy
                      No
                17.01                Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                     A. Denatured :
                                            I. White sugar                                                     0
                                           II. Raw sugar                                                       0
                                     B. Undenatured :
                                            I. "White sugar                                                     0
                                           II. Raw sugar                                                       0