CELEX: 31973R1503
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1503/73 of the Commission of 6 June 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 151 / 26                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 7. 6. 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1503/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 6 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 (*) 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 Article 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 ; whereas
the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                        the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
ted to the amount resulting from application of the                         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 (3) 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
                                                                       hundredth         of  the difference  between these two
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
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
                                                                       Artie . 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                                                Article 1
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
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 0-0670 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 L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p . 42.                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June
I*) O I No 1 . 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, 6 June 1973 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission