CELEX: 31973R2027
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2027/73 of the Commission of 26 July 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 206/34                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             27 . 7 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2027/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 26 July 1973
                fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                               products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        the period between the day on which it is fixed and
COMMUNITIES,                                                          the first day of the month following the month for
                                                                      which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
Economic Community ;                                                  from the average referred to above or from the levy on
                                                                      white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                          this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
67/EEC ( ! ) of 18 December 1967 on the common                        hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                  the alteration ;
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2), and in particular
Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;                                             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                      on their effective parity ;
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;               — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
                                                                           arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be calcu­                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                        in the previous subparagraph ;
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                Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                      on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                 white sugar occurring between the month in which
bound within GATT ;                                                    the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                       tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                       of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                       must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
 the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                     in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the                   Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
 basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
 product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose
 content ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
 to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
 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                  The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                   listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
 must be substituted for the average of the levies,                     67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
 where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account               product, at 0-0749 unit of account per percentage
 from that average ;                                                    point of sucrose content.
 Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                               Article 2
 (')  OJ  No  308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
 (2)  OJ  No  L 199 , 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7 .
 (3)  OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p . 42 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 July
 (4 ) OJ  No  L 165, 28 . 7. 1970 , p . 8 .                             1973 .                                             1
 ---pagebreak--- 27. 7. 73                    Official Journal of the European Communities                      No L 206/35
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 26 July 1973 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission