CELEX: 31975R1701
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1701/75 of the Commission of 2 July 1975 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

3 . 7 . 75                               Official , Journal of the European Communities                         No L 172/ 13
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 1701 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 2 July 1975
                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 0-40 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
                                                                      this case, the basic amount must be equal to one
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
3330/74 (*) of 19 December 1974 on the common
                                                                      the alteration ;
organization of the market in sugar, and in particular
Article 1 5 (7) thereof ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Having, regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee ;                                                           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                        on their effective parity ;
 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 subparagraph ;
 basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of
 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies                Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
 on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                     on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
 amount resulting from application of the rate of duty                 white sugar occurring between the month in which
 bound within GATT ;                                                   the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                       tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                      of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                       must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 No 837/68 (2 ) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
 the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                     in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
 Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (3), provides that the                   Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
 basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
  product must be fixed per percentage 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 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
  first twenty days of the month preceding the month                                           Article 1
  for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
  whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar
  on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  The basic amount of the import levy on the products
  must be substituted for the average of the levies,                   listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
  where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account              3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
  from that average ;                                                   product, at 0-0794 unit of account per percentage
                                                                        point of sucrose content.
  Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
  month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                               Article 2
  (') OJ No L 359 , 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
  (-') OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42.
  (3 ) OJ No L 165, 28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 July 1975 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Dohe at Brussels, 2 July 1975.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission