CELEX: 31976R1568
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1568/76 of 30 June 1976 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 172/40                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 7 . 76
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1568 /76
                                                            of 30 June 1976
                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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                      hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
zation of the market in sugar ( J ), as last amended by                the alteration ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (2), and in particular
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Committee,
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                            on their effective parity ;
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of
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 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,
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                       must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                    in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
application of levies on sugar (3), as amended by Regu­                Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
lation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4 ), provides that the basic
amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of product
must be fixed per percentage of sucrose content ;
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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
 for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                                             Article 1
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar
on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be                   The basic amount of the import levy on the products
substituted for the average of the levies, where that                  listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account from that               3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
average ;                                                              product, at 0-0681 unit of account per percentage
                                                                        point of sucrose content.
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
(>)   OJ  No  L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                                    Article 2
(2 )  OJ  No  L 167,  26 . 6 . 1976, p. 9 .
(} )  OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42 .
O     OJ  No  L 165,  28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 30 June 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission