CELEX: 31973R1675
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1675/73 of the Commission of 25 June 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 169 / 16                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              26. 6 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 1675/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 25 June 1973
                  fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
  COMMUNITIES,                                                        month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                      the period between the day on which it is fixed and
                                                                      the first day of the month following the month for
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
  pean Economic Community ;                                           white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                      from the average referred to above or from the levy
                                                                      on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; where­
 Having       regard        to     Council    Regulation    No         as, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to
  1009/67/EEC ( 1 ) of 18 December 1967 on the com­                   one hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
 mon organization of the market in sugar, as last                     calculate the alteration ;
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 (2), and
 in particular Artide 14 (7) thereof ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No
 1009/67/EEC provides for charging a levy on im­                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 ports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that                   relation to each other, at many given moment,
 Regulation ;                                                              within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange
                                                                           based on their effective parity ;
 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1
 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be cal­                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
 culated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on                         the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
the basis of the sucrose content ( including other sugars                  each of these currencies recorded for a given
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned                            period, in relation to the Community currencies
and of the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however,                         referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                  Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the                  was requested ;
 rate of duty bound within GATT ;
                                                                      Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
No 837/68 (') of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                   for white sugar occurring between the month in
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                     which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the                    application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                      hundredth      of   the difference   between  these  two
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­                 threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
tent ;                                                               the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
                                                                     Artic.e 7 ( 6) of Regulation ( EEC ) No 837/68 ;
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 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
first twenty days of the month preceding the month
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                                              Article 1
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar
on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  The basic amount of the import levy on the pro
must be substituted for the average of the levies,                   ducts listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No
where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of ac­                 1009/67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes
count from that average ,                                            of product, at 0-0695 unit of account per percentage
                                                                     point of sucrose content.
                                                                                               Article 2
(*)   OJ  No  308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(«)   OJ  No  L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 1 .
(•)   OJ  No  I. 151, 30. 6. 1968, p. 42 .                           This Reguflarion shall enter into force on 26 June
I4)   OJ  No  I. 114. 13. 5 . 1969, p . 9.                           1973 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 25 June 1973 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                Member of the Commission