CELEX: 31973R1740
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1740/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 176/34                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             30. 6. 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1740/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 June 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
                                                                   this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                      hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                      the alteration ;
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Article 1 4 (7) thereof ;                                          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                  within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                on their effective parity ;
                                                                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be calcu­                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars                   in the previous subparagraph ;
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies            Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                 requested ;
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty
bound within GATT ;
                                                                  Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                                  on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                  white sugar occurring between the month in which
No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for               the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                 tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (^), provides that the               of the difference between these two threshold prices,
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                    must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose                   in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
content ;                                                         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
cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
first twenty days of the month preceding the month
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                                      Article 1
on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount
must be substituted for the average of the levies,                The basic amount of the import levy on the products
where that levy differs by at least 0 40 unit of account          listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
from that average ;                                               67/ EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
                                                                  product, at 00734 unit of account per percentage
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every                      point of sucrose content.
month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
( i ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .                                                   Article 2
(2) OJ No L 106, 20 . 4. 1973, p . 1 .
(3) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42.
b\ OJ No L 165, 28. 7. 1970, p. 8.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission