CELEX: 31974R0403
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 403/74 of the Commission of 15 February 1974 introducing a special export levy on syrups and other sugars

No L 44/ 12                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              16. 2. 74
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 403/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 15 February 1974
                            introducing a special export levy on syrups and other sugars
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be fixed
COMMUNITIES,                                                        per kilogramme of sucrose content, including the
                                                                    content of other sugars calculated as sucrose equiva­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               lent ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas the list of products to which the special levy
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                        is to apply was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 389/74 ;
67/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and. in particular              levies should be calculated on ' the following basis ;
Article 1 6 (5) thereof ;                                           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
Committee ;                                                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                         on their effective parity ;
Whereas, under Article 16 of Regulation No 1009/                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
67/EEC, where the Community or any region thereof                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
cannot be supplied with sugar at prices within the                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
limits of the threshold price, provision may be made                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
for charging a special export levy on sugar ;                            in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 389/74 (3) of 14                     Whereas the introducing of the special export levy is
February 1974 the Commission laid down detailed                     in accordance with the Opinion of the Management
rules for applying the special export levy on syrups                Committee for Sugar,
and other sugars ;
Whereas a special export levy has been fixed for sugar              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
since November 1973 ; whereas the shortage on the
world market has since then become more serious in
                                                                                               Article 1
a situation characterized by particularly high price
levels ; whereas this situation found for sugar is                  A special export levy is introduced on the products
reflected on the market for other sugars and syrups ;               specified in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
whereas to ensure that the Community can be                          67/EEC, the basic amount of which shall be as shown
supplied with sugar at prices within the limits of the               in the Annex to this Regulation.
threshold price, especially in its outermost regions,
where additional supplies are necessary, a special                                             Article 2
export levy should be introduced for the products
referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/           This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 February
67/ EEC ;                                                            1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 15 February 1974.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                    The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
 ( i ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
 (2) OJ No L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7 .
  3 OJ No L 43 , 15 . 2. 1974, p. 35.
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                                                                ANNEX
                                                                                                             (u.a . 1100 kg)
                                                                                                          Basic amount
               CCT
                                                                                                          of the special
                                                                                                         export levy per
              heading                                    Description of goods                            percentage point
                No                                                                                          of sucrose
                                                                                                            content f1)
            17.02         Other sugars ; sugar syrups ; artificial honey (whether or not
                         mixed with natural honey) ; caramel :
                          ex D. Invert sugar and other syrups                                                 0-1800
                          ex F. Caramel made from ibeet sugar and cane sugar                                  0-1800
            17.05        Flavoured or coloured sugars, syrups and molasses, but not in­
                         cluding fruit juices containing added sugar in any proportion :
                         ex i C . Other, excluding flavoured or coloured molasses                             0-1800
          (*) Sucrose content is determined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 394/70.