CELEX: 31993R2117
Language: en
Date: 1993-07-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2117/93 of 30 July 1993 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 191 /44                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31 . 7 . 93
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2117/93
                                                           of 30 July 1993
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
                                                                      at least ECU 0,73 from the average referred to above or
                                                                      from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be
 Economic Community,                                                  equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
                                                                      calculate the alteration ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
 tion (EEC) No 1548 /93 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)         the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
 thereof,                                                             sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
                                                                      amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                      this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
 Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products              from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                       provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      837/68 ;
 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
 where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the           Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (5)
 sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as                lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable
 sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on                in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a
 white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar           result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93
 and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from            marketing year ;
 application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­           Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
 tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation          ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of              under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
 the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per             and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
 percentage point of sucrose content ;                               dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
                                                                     established pursuant to point B of Article 11 ( 1 ) of
                                                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 766/92 (6) for the fixing of
                                                                     the import levy on the products falling within CN codes
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to                 1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to
                                                                     the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of
                                                                     being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
the month preceding the month for which the basic                    as from the first of each month in the case of the
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
                                                                     products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the
                                                                      1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the
levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
that average ;
                                                                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                  91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period               overseas countries and territories with the European
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of            Economic Community (7), no levies shall apply on
the month following the month for which the basic                    imports of products originating in the overseas countries
                                                                     and territories :
(') OJ  No  L 177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2  OJ  No  L 154,  25 . 6. 1993 , p. 10 .                           0 OJ No L 159, 1 . 7. 1993, p. 127.
(') OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p . 42.                           (6) OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
(4) OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                             O OJ No L 263, 19 . 9 . 1991 , p. 1 .
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (') are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies                                                        Article 1
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                             The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­                     (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­                        indicated in the Annex hereto.
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (2) ;
Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­                                                      Article 2
sions that the import levies on the products concerned
should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation,                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August 1993 .
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 30 July 1993.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                             Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 30 July 1993 fixing the basic amount of the import levies
                                     on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                         (ECU)
                                                        Basic amount per percentage point                    Amount of levy per 100 kg
                       CN code                        of sucrose content and per 100 kg net
                                                           of the product in question (')                          of dry matter (')
                      1702 20 10                                      0,4343                                             —
                      1702 20 90                                      0,4343                                             —
                      1702 30 10                                        —                                               53,10
                      1702 40 10                                        —                                               53,10
                      1702 60 10                                        —                                               53,10
                      1702 60 90                                      0,4343                                             —
                      1702 90 30                                        —                                               53,10
                      1702 90 60                                      0,4343                                             —
                      1702 90 71                                      0,4343                                             —
                      1702 90 90                                      0,4343                                             —
                      2106 90 30                                        —                                               53,10
                      2106 90 59                                      0,4343                                             —
    (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
(') OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993 , p. 106.