CELEX: 31980R1325
Language: en
Date: 1980-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1325/80 of 30 May 1980 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 135/ 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            31 . 5. 80
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1325/80
                                                          of 30 May 1980
                fixing the basic amount of die 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 0-73 ECU from the
 Economic Community,                                                average referred to above or from the levy on white
                                                                    sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in this
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       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
 Whereas Article 15 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                         a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
                                                                         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 GATT ;
                                                                    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
20 days of the month preceding the month for which                                           Article 1
 the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas,
 however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted               The basic amount of the import levy on the products
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by           listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;                               3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0
                                                                    ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
Whereas the basic amount must be                    fixed each
month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                                             Article 2
(i) OJ   No  L 359,  31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .
(*) OJ   No  L 170,  27.  6. 1978, p. 1 .
(») OJ   No  L 151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.
(♦) OJ   No  L 171 , 28.  6. 1978, p. 34.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1980.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 30 May 1980.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President