CELEX: 31973R2008
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2008/73 of the Commission of 25 July 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 205 / 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             26 . 7 . 73
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 2008/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 25 July 1973
               fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                              products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
COMMUNITIES,                                                         month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                     the period between the day on which it is fixed and
                                                                     the first day of the month following the month for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;
                                                                     which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                     white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                     from the average referred to above or from the levy on
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                         white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
67/EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                         this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2), and in particular              the alteration ;
Article 14 (7) thereof ;
                                                                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
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 1009/67/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                Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                    white sugar occurring between the month in which
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                 the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
bound within GATT ;                                                   tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
                                                                      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 (3 ) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 49 1 / 70 (4 ), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
 product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose
content ;                                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
                                                                                              ArtieU 1
 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                   The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                    listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d ) of Regulation No 1009 /
 whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                 67/ EEC is hereby fixed , per 100 kilogrammes of
 on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  product, at 0-0795 unit of account per percentage
 must be substituted for the average of the levies,                   point of sucrose content .
 where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
 from that average ;
                                                                                              Article. 2
(') 0 | No 308 , IS . 12 . 1967, p . 1 .
 (') O ) No L 199, 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 .
 (•') O'l No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 July
  -•) O'l No L 165, 28 . 7 . 1970, p. 8 .                              1973 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 25 July 1973 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                               Member of the Commission