CELEX: 31993R2409
Language: en
Date: 1993-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2409/93 of 31 August 1993 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

1 . 9 . 93                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 222/ 11
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2409/93
                                                           of 31 August 1993
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            at least ECU 0,73 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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
Economic Community,                                                    calculate the alteration :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                      Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­            the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
tion (EEC) No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8)          sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
thereof,                                                               amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                       this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
                                                                       between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81                 from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products                provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                          837/68 :
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,                     Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (5)
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the              lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as
                                                                       in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on
                                                                       result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar
                                                                       marketing year ;
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­              ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation             under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of                and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per                 dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
percentage point of sucrose content ;                                   established pursuant to point B of Article 11 (1 ) of
                                                                        Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (*), as amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 2193/93 Q, for the fixing of the
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to                   import levy on the products falling within CN codes
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to                1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of                the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
the month preceding the month for which the basic                       being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
                                                                        as from the first of each month in the case of the
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the               products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the                 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
that average ;
                                                                       Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                     91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period                  overseas countries and territories with the European
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of               Economic Community (8), no levies shall apply on
the month following the month for which the basic                       imports of products originating in the overseas countries
amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by             and territories :
(') OJ   No L 177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                0    OJ   No L  159,  1 . 7. 1993, p. 127.
(2) OJ   No L 154,   25. 6. 1993, p . 10.                               (6)  OJ   No L  181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
0   OJ   No L 151 ,  30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                                O    OJ   No L  196,  5 . 8 . 1993, p. 22.
(4) OJ   No L 171 ,  28 . 6 . 1978 , p . 34.                            (8)  OJ   No L  263,  19 . 9 . 1991 , p. 1 .
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 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (') are used to
 convert amounts expressed in third country currencies                                                        Article 1
 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                          The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
 whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­                     (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
 tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­                       indicated in the Annex hereto.
 lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (2) ;
                                                                                                              Article 2
 Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­
 sions that the import levies on the products concerned                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
 should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation,                       1993 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                     Done at Brussels, 31 August 1993 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                              Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1993 fixing the basic amount of the import
                                   levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                       (ECU)
                                                         Basic amount per percentage point                    A      „ , .       ,™ ,
                        CN code                        of sucrose content and per 100 kg net                  Amountf °J ^vy per 00 kg
                                                            of the product in question (')                          of ^ matter O
                       1702 20 10                                      0,4220                                              —
                       1702 20 90                                      0,4220                                              —
                       1702 30  10                                       —                                              51,87
                       1702 40  10                                       —                                              51,87
                       1702 60  10                                       —                                              51,87
                       1702 60  90                                     0,4220                                              —
                       1702 90  30                                       —                                              51,87
                       1702 90  60                                     0,4220                                              —
                       1702 90  71                                     0,4220                                              —
                       1702 90  90                                     0,4220                                              —
                       2106 90  30                                       —                                              51,87
                       2106 90  59                                     0,4220                                              —
     (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
(■) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.