CELEX: 31981R1809
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1809/81 of 1 July 1981 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 181 /26                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              2. 7 . 81
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1809/81
                                                      of 1 July 1981
              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 each month ;
COMMUNITIES,                                                    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 which the basic
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs
Economic Community,                                             by at least 0-73 ECU 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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    must be equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white
1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization              sugar used to calculate the alteration ;
of the market in sugar ('), and in particular Article 1 6
(8) 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
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Committee,
                                                                      relation to each other at any given moment within
                                                                      a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                       their effective parity,
 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                      these currencies recorded for a given period in
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )             relation to the Community currencies referred to
(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­                     in the previous indent ;
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis
of the sucrose content (including other sugars                   Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of            on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies           white sugar occurring between the month in which
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty            tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth
bound within GATT ;                                              of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                 must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
                                                                 in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
 No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the
 application of levies on sugar (2), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (3), provides that the
 basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product
 must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
                                                                                           Article 1
 to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
 cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first
 20 days of the month preceding the month for which               The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,                 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day           1785/81 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0-1683
 of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted            ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
 for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by
 at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;
                                                                                           Article 2
 (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
 0 OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.
 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1981 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 1 July 1981 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                      The President
                                                                     Gaston THORN