CELEX: 31974R0176
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 176/74 of the Commission of 23 January 1974 fixing the special export levy for white sugar and raw sugar

24 . 1 . 74                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 20/29
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 176/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 23 January 1974
                          fixing the special export levy for white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  tion the price levels within the Community and on
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the world market as well as an evaluation of the risk
                                                                of a lack of supplies within the limits of the threshold
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           price in all the Community regions ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                Whereas the list of products subject to the special levy
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1009/              is given in Commission Regulation (EEC) No
67/ EEC ( 1 ) of 18 December 1967 on the Common
                                                                 1 076/72 (5) of 25 May 1972 laying down detailed rules
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended             for applying export levies on sugar, as amended by
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928 /73 (2) ;                            Regulation (EEC) No 58/74 (*) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas to enable the arrangements to function
608 /72 (3) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be            smoothly the calculation of the levies should be
applied in cases of considerable price rises on the             based :
world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 ( 1 )
thereof ;                                                       — for currencies which are kept within a maximum
                                                                     spread at any given moment of 2-25 % on a
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         conversion rate based on their actual parities ;
Committee ;                                                     — for other currencies, on a conversion rate based on
Whereas, pursuant to Article 16 of Regulation No                     the arithmetic mean of the spot exchange rates
 1009/67/ EEC, where the Community or any region                     recorded over a given period for those currencies
thereof cannot be supplied with sugar at prices within               against those mentioned in the preceding subpara­
the limit of the threshold price , provision may be                  graph ;
made for charging a special export levy on sugar ;              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
Whereas the threshold prices for white sugar and raw
                                                                 ment Committee for Sugar,
sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1637/73 (4) ;
Whereas the present world market situation allows                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
sugar exports from the Community at a price level
which is susceptible to a rise in the ex-works price in                                     Article 1
the area of the Community having the greatest surplus
for a delivery, such that in particular the deliveries          The special export levy on sugar provided for in the
within the limits of the threshold price to the south of         second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation
Italy, which is the most distant deficit region , risk           No 1009 / 67/ EEC shall be as shown in the Annex.
becoming uncertain , whereas a special export levy
should therefore be fixed ;                                                                 Article 2
Whereas in order to achieve the objectives pursued              This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 January
the special levy may be fixed taking into considera­             1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 23 January 1974.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
$ OJ No L 199, 19. 7. 1973, p. 7.
(J) OJ No L 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .                           (5 ) OJ No L 121 , 26 . 5 . 1972, p. 22.
(«) OJ No L 165, 22 . 6. 1973, p. 1 ,                           (6) OJ No L 8 , 10 . 1 . 1974, p. 13 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                                   (u.a . H00 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                                                               17-00
                                       II. raw sugar                                                                 14-00 (»)
                                    B. Undenatured :
                                            I. White sugar                                                           17-00
                                       ex II . Raw sugar other than candy sugar                                      14-00 i 1 )
           (<} This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 *U yield . If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from
               92 'It the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1076/72 .