CELEX: 31984R2742
Language: en
Date: 1984-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2742/84 of 28 September 1984 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 260/ 18                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                29 . 9 . 84
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2742/84
                                                  of 28 September 1984
              fixing die import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
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 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended
by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular
Article 16 (8) thereof,
                                                                Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
                                                                on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                    white sugar occurring between the month in which
Committee,                                                      the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth
                                                                of the difference between these two threshold prices,
Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                  must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the         in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;          Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )      Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article
(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­               1 (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis       comprises, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a
of the sucrose < content (including other sugars                variable element and a fixed element, with the latter,
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of           per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one­
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies          tenth of the fixed element established pursuant to
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the               point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty           2727/75 (*) for the fixing of the import levy on the
bound within GATT ;
                                                                products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the
                                                                Common Customs Tariff, and the variable element,
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the             hundred times the basic import levy applicable as
                                                                from the first of each month in the case of the
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the              products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product           No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each
                                                                month :
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­            levies should be calculated on the following basis :
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 levy is fixed ; whereas,                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day              relation to each other at any given moment within
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted               a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by           their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient
at least 0,73 ECU from that average ;                               provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
(') OJ No  L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                               No 855/84,
(2) OJ No  L 74, 18 . 3. 1982, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.
(*) OJ No  L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                          O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in                                               Article 1
     relation to the Community currencies referred to
     in the previous indent, and the aforesaid coeffi­                The import levies on the products listed in Article 1
     cient ;                                                          (1 ) (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall
                                                                      be as indicated in the Annex hereto.
Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­                                             Article 2
sions that the import levies on the products concerned
should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regula­                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October
tion,                                                                  1984.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 28 September 1984.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      Poul DALSAGER
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
               to die Commission Regulation of 28 September 1984 fixing die import levies on syrups and
                                           certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                               (ECU)
                                                                                                 Basic amount
       CCT
                                                                                             per percentage point Amount of levy
                                                                                              of sucrose content
     heading                                  Description                                    and per 100 kg net     per 100 kg
       No
                                                                                                of the product     or dry matter
                                                                                                  in question
 17.02             Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added
                   flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not
                   mixed with natural honey ; caramel :
                   C. Maple sugar and other syrup                                                   0,4412              —
                   D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and
                       malto-dextrine) :                                                   I
                            I. Isoglucose                                                             —
                                                                                                                       53,79
                       ex II. Other                                                                 0,4412              —
                   E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey                     0,4412              —
                   F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry
                          state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose                                  0,4412              —
21.07              Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :
                   F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups :
                       III. Isoglucose                                                                —
                                                                                                                       53,79
                       IV. Other                                                                    0,4412              —