CELEX: 31978R1493
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1493/78 of 30 June 1978 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 178 / 18                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 7. 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1493/78
                                                           of 30 June 1978
                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                          hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                     the alteration ;
zation of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (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 on
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                            their effective parity ;
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the    r
the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                    in the previous subparagraph ;
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars
                                                                      Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted .
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of                 on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies
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-hundreth
                                                                      of the difference between these two threshold prices
                                                                      must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) oi
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                   Regulation (EEC) No 837/68,
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms 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 kilograms of white sugar during the first
20 days of the month preceding the month for which                                              Article 1
the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,
 however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day               The basic amount of the import levy on the product
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted                 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) Nc
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by              3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilograms of product
at least 0-40 unit of account from that average ;
                                                                      at 0-2773 unit of account per percentage point o
                                                                      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 170,  27.  6. 1978, p. 1 .
(J)   OJ  No  L 151 , 30.  6 . 1968, p. 42.
(4)   OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978, p. 34.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978
 ---pagebreak--- 1 . 7. 78                    Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 178 / 19
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President