CELEX: 31979R1065
Language: en
Date: 1979-06-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1065/79 of 31 May 1979 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 135/ 18                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             1 . 6 . 79
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1065 /79
                                                           of 31 May 1979
                 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                              products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the first day of the month following the month for
COMMUNITIES,                                                         which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
                                                                     white sugar differs by at least 0-60 unit of account
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                from the average referred to above or from the levy on
Economic Community,                                                  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 1 396/78 (2), and in particular                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                              levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                              relation to each other at any given moment within
Committee,                                                                a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                          their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
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
                                                                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1
                                                                          in the previous indent ;
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
                                                                     March 1 979 (5) laid down the coefficient for
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies               expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
                                                                     ECU ;
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty
bound within GATT ;                                                  Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                                     on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                     white sugar occurring between the month in which
                                                                     the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
                                                                     tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by               of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the                   must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product                in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose                        Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68,
content ;
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first
20 days of the month preceding the month for which
the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,                                               Artide 1
however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted                The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by           listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No
at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ;                    3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product,
                                                                     0-3209 ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each
 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
the period between the day on which it is fixed and                                            Article 2
(1)   OJ  No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1979 .
(2)   OJ  No  L 170,  27.  6. 1978, p. 1 .
P)    OJ  No  L 151 , 30.  6. 1968 , p. 42.
(«)   OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                          (M OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 31 May 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President