CELEX: 31979R0405
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 405/79 of 28 February 1979 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

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                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 405/79
                                                           of 28 February 1979
                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 0-60 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 (EEC) No                            this case, the basic amount must be equal to one­
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­                       hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by                   the alteration ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular
Article 15 (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                            — 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 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                              their effective parity ;
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of
the 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 (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the                          in the previous indent ;
basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of                   Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                  on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                       white sugar occurring between the month in which
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                   the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
bound within GAIT ;                                                     tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth
                                                                        of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                        must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the                     in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by                  Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
Regulation (EEC) No 1428 /78 (4), 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
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first                                            Article 1
20 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 on the day                 The basic amount of the import levy on the products
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted                   listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by               3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product,
at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ;                       0-2657 unit of account per percentage point of
                                                                        sucrose content .
Whereas       the   basic     amount      must      be  fixed  each
 month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                                  Article 2
(')   OJ  No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(2)   OJ  No  L 170 , 27.  6 . 1978 , p. 1 .
(3)   OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p . 42.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
("    OJ  No  L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p. 34.                             1979 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 28 February 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President