CELEX: 31973R1479
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1479/73 of the Commission of 4 June 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

5 . 6 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 148/ 17
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1479/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 4 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 ;
 the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the
 rate of duty bound within GATT ;                                      Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
                                                                       justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      for white sugar occurring between the month in
No 837/68 (®) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                   which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                     application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
                                                                       hundredth of the difference between           these two
Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                        threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­                   the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
 tent ;
                                                                       Article 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 0-0394 unit of account per percentage
                                                                       point of sucrose content.
                                                                                               Article 2
 (*) OJ No 308, 18. 12. 1967, p. 1 .
 (l) OJ No L 25 , 30. 1 . 1973, p. 1 .
 (*) OJ No I. 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 June
 («) O I 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, 4 June 1973 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                        P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission