CELEX: 31973R0299
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 299/73 of the Commission of 2 February 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 33 / 12                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               3 . 2 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 299/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 2 February 1973
               fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                        must be substituted for the average of the levies,
                                                                      where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of ac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     count from that average ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                      "Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
Having regard to Council Regulation No                                 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
1009/67/EEC ( 1 ) of 18 December 1967 on the com­                      the period between the day on which it is fixed and
mon organisation of the market in sugar, as last                       the first day of the month following the month for
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and                        which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
 in particular Article 14 (7 ) thereof ;                               white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                       from the average referred to above or from the levy
"Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No                             on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; where­
 1009/67/EEC provides for charging a levy on im­                       as, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to
ports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that                one hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
 Regulation ;                                                          calculate the alteration ;
"Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                  Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be cal­                   justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
 culated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on                     for white sugar occurring between the month in
the basis of the sucrose content ( including other sugars              which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned                        application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
 and of the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however,                    hundredth      of the difference   between   these two
 the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                   threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the                   the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
rate of duty bound within GATT ;                                       Article 7 ( 6) of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                                               Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                        The basic amount of the import levy on the pro
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­                   ducts listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No
 tent ;                                                                1009/67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes
                                                                       of product, at 0-0457 unit of account per percentage
 Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal                    point of sucrose content.
 to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
 cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the                                             Article 2
 first twenty days of the month preceding the month
 for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 February
 whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                   1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 February 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
  (*)  OJ  No 308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .
  (2)  OJ  No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973 , p . 1 .
  (3)  OJ  No L 151, 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
  (4)  OJ  No L 114, 13 . 5 . 1969, p. 9.