CELEX: 31973R1700
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1700/73 of the Commission of 27 June 1973 fixing the import levy on molasses

28 . 6 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 173 / 9
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1700/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 27 June 1973
                                             fixing the import levy on molasses
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             relation to the Community currencies referred toin
COMMUNITIES,                                                               the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
Economic Community ;                                                   requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                           Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                          provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1395/72
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                   to the information at present available to the Commis­
by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and in particular                   sion that the levy at present in force should be altered
Article 14(7) thereof ;                                                as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas the import levy on molasses was fixed by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 395/72 (3) and subsequent                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
amending Regulations ;
Whereas if the levy system is to operate normally,                                             Article 1
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                       The levy referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation No
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                        1009/67/EEC is, in respect of molasses, hereby fixed
      relation to each other, at any given moment,                     as shown in the Annex to this Regulation .
      within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based
      on their effective parity ;
                                                                                               Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                 This Regulation shall enter into force „on 28 June
      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in               1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 27 June 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
( i ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 1 .
h OJ No L 149, 1 . 7. 1972, p. 61 .
                                                              ANNEX
                                                                                                         (u.a.HOO kg)
                      CCT
                    heading                              Description of goods                              Levy
                       No
                17.03               Molasses, whether or not decolourized                                    0