CELEX: 31993R1045
Language: en
Date: 1993-05-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1045/93 of 30 April 1993 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

1 . 5. 93                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 108/39
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1045/93
                                                          of 30 April 1993
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of
                                                                     the month following the month for which the basic
                                                                     amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                at least ECU 0,73 from the average referred to above or
Economic Community,                                                  from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic
                                                                     amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be
                                                                     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
 tion (EEC) No 3814/92 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)
 thereof,
                                                                     Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
                                                                     the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                      this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
                                                                     between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
                                                                     from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)        provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     837/68 ;
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the 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 on maple sugar
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;                  Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
                                                                     (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
                                                                     under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
                                                                     and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­           established pursuant to point B of Article 14 (1 ) of
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation           Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of              by Regulation (EEC) No 1 738/92 (*) for the fixing of the
the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per              import levy on the products falling within CN codes
percentage point of sucrose content ;                                1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
                                                                     the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
                                                                     being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to                as from the first of each month in the case of the
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to             products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of            1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
the month preceding the month for which the basic
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the
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
                                                                     91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
                                                                     overseas countries and territories with the European
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                  Economic Community f), no levies shall apply on
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period               imports of products originating in the overseas countries
                                                                     and territories ;
(') OJ  No L  177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
f)  OJ  No L 387,    31 . 12. 1992, p. 7.                            O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No L  151 ,  30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             O OJ No L 180, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 1 .
(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 38 13/92 (') 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 3819/92 (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 May 1993.
                  . This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 30 April 1993 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 30 April 1993 fixing the import levies on syrups and
                                               certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                        (ECU)
                                                        Basic amount per percentage point
                       CN code                        of sucrose content and per 100 kg net        Amount of levy per 100 kg of dry matter (')
                                                           of the product in question (')
                      1702 20 10                                      0,4382                                          —
                      1702 20 90                                      0,4382                                          —
                      1702 30 10                                        —                                            53,49
                      1702 40 10                                        —                                            53,49
                      1702 60 10                                        —                                            53,49
                      1702 60 90                                      0,4382                                          —
                      1702 90 30                                        —                                            53,49
                      1702 90 60                                      0,4382                                          —
                      1702 90 71                                      0,4382                                          —
                      1702 90 90                                      0,4382                                          —
                      2106 90 30                                        —                                            53,49
                      2106 90 59                                      0,4382                                          —
    (') 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 .
O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 17.