CELEX: 31975R1825
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1825/75 of the Commission of 15 July 1975 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugars

16. 7. 75                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 185/ 13
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1825/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 15 July 1975
                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
                                                                 this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
Having . regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 (!) of 19 December 1974 on the common                    hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
                                                                 the alteration ;
organization of the market in sugar, and in particular
Article 1 5 (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 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                    on their effective parity ;
the 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 (EEC) No 3330/74 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 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 GATT ;                                              the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                 tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
                                                                 of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                 must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 (2) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for               in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                 Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (3), 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
 to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
 cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the                                       Article 1
 first twenty days of the month preceding the month
 for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar              The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount              listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 must be substituted for the average of the levies,               3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
 where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account         product, at 0-0472 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                                      Article 2
 (') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p . 1 .
 0 OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p . 42.                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 July
 (*) OJ No L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                             1975 .
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No L 185/ 14                  Official Journal of the European Communities
           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States,
           Done at Brussels, 15 July 1975 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission