CELEX: 31973R2908
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2908/73 of the Commission of 25 October 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

26 . 10 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 298 /31
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2908 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 25 October 1973
                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
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                          this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
67/EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                          hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                  the alteration ;
by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2), and in particular
Article 14 (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
Committee ;                                                           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                      on their effective parity ;
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC must be calcu­                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                         in the previous subparagraph ;
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
 on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                     on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
 amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                 white sugar occurring between the month in which
 bound within GATT ;                                                   the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                       tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                       must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 No 837/68 (•>) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
 the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                     in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 Regulation ( EEC) No 1 49 1 /70 (4), provides that the                Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
 basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes 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 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
  first twenty days of the month preceding the month                                            Article 1
  for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
 whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                  The basic amount of the import levy on the products
  on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
  must be substituted for the average of the levies,                    67/ EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
  where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account              product, at 0-0757 unit of account per percentage
  from that average ;                                                   point of sucrose content.
  Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
  month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                                Article 2
  (') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . I.
  (-') O } No L 199 , 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 .
  (3) O") No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 October
  (4 ) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7 . 1970 , p . 8 .                            1 973 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels , 25 October 1973 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                               Member of the Commission