CELEX: 31973R3418
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3418/73 of the Commission of 19 December 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

20 . 12 . 73                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 351 /9
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3418/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 19 December 1973
                               fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                               relation to the Community currencies referred to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      in the previous subparagraph ;
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                         provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73
67/ EEC ( J ) of 18 December 1967 on the common                       to the information at present available to the Commis­
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                  sion that the levies at present in force should be
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2), and in particular               altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
Article 14(7) thereof ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73 (3)                                           Article 1
and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                      The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    No 1009/67/EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                  standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                   the Annex to this Regulation .
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                                       Article 2
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 20
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                 December 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 19 December 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(<) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7.
P) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6 . 1973, p. 30 .
                                                             ANNEX
                                                                                                        (u.a.1100 kg)
                     CCT
                   heading                              Description of goods                              Levy
                     No
               17.01               Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. Denatured :
                                        I. White sugar                                                     0
                            ,
                                       II. Raw sugar                                                       0
                                   B. Undenatured :
                                        I. White sugar                                                     0
                                       II . Raw sugar                                                      0