CELEX: 31973R2885
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2885/73 of the Commission of 24 October 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 297/ 12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                                  25 . 10 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2885 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 24 October 1973
                                  fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
• COMMUNITIES,                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                             in the previous subparagraph ;
  Economic Community ;                                                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/                                 provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1738 /73
  67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common                                to the information at present available to the Commis­
  organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                         sion that the levies at present in force should be
  by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2), and in particular                      altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
  Article 14(7) thereof ;
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
  Committee ;                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw
  sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738 /73 (3)                                                      Article 1
  and subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                               The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation
  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                           No 1009/67/ EEC are, in respect of white sugar and
  levies should be calculated on the following basis :                         standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in
  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in                          the Annex to this Regulation .
       relation to each other, at any given moment,
       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                                                   Article 2
       on their effective parity ;
  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 October
       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                         1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                 Done at Brussels, 24 October 1973 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                       Member of the Commission
   (') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. 1 .
   (2) OJ No L 199, 19 . 7. 1973, p. 7.
   (3) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6 . 1973 , p . 30 .
                                                                       ANNEX
                                                                                                                          fu.a.1100 kg)
                        CCT
                       heading                                    Description of goods                                      Levy
                         No
                 17.01                  Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                        A. Denatured :
                                              I. White sugar                                                                 8-30
                                             II. Raw sugar                                                                   6-52 H
                                        B. Undenatured :
                                              I. White sugar                                                                 8-30
                                             II. Raw sugar                                                                   6-52 (»)
                 (*) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 % ; if the yield is other than 91 % , the levy applicable is calculated
                     in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.