CELEX: 31974R0376
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 376/74 of the Commission of 13 February 1974 altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar

14. 2. 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 42/7
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 376/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 13 February 1974
                             altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Economic Community ;                                                    in the previous subparagraph ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
 67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                       Whereas it follows from applying the rules, criteria
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 and other provisions contained in the Regulation
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (2) ;                                (EEC) No 176/74 to the information at present avail­
                                                                     able to the Commission that the special export levy at
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        present in force should be altered as shown in the
 608/72 (3) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be                 Annex to this Regulation,
applied in cases of considerable price rises on the
world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 (2)
thereof ;                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;                                                                                Article 1
Whereas the special export levy on white sugar and
 raw sugar was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No                          The special export levy on sugar provided for in the
 1 76/74 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                     No 1009/67/ EEC fixed in the Annex to amended
352/74 (*),
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 176/74 is altered as shown in
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                  the Annex to this Regulation.
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                         Article 2
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based              This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 February
     on their effective parity ;                                      1974 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 13 February 1974.
                                                                               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 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4) OJ  No   L 20, 24. 1 . 1974, p . 29 .
(5) OJ  No   L 41 , 13 . 2. 1974, p . 11 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                                  (u.a. /100 kg)
                                                                                                               Amount of the
              CCT heading                                                                                      special export
                    No                                       Description of goods
                                                                                                                     levy
           17.01                    Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. Denatured :
                                        I. white sugar                                                              21-00
                                       11 . raw sugar                                                               21-00 (')
                                    B. Undenatured :
                                             I. White sugar                                                         21-00
                                       ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar                                      21-00 (')
           (') This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 #/o yield . If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from
               92 ·/· the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1076/72.