CELEX: 31994R0198
Language: en
Date: 1994-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 198/94 of 31 January 1994 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

1 . 2. 94                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No L 27/5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 198/94
                                                        of 31 January 1994
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         at least ECU 0,73 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
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
  Community,                                                        calculate the alteration :
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                 Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­       the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
 tion (EEC) No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular Article 1 6 (8)      sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
 thereof,                                                           amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                     this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
                                                                    between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
 Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81             from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                      837/68 ;
 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)
 of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
                                                                    Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 Q
 where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the
                                                                    lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable
 sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as
                                                                    in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a
 sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on
                                                                    result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93
 white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar
                                                                    marketing year ;
 and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from
 application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­          (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
 tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation         under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of             and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
 the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per            dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
 percentage point of sucrose content ;                              established pursuant to point B of Article 11 ( 1 ) of
                                                                    Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (*), as amended by
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 2193/93 f), for the fixing of the
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to               import levy on the products falling within CN codes
 one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to            1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of           the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
 the month preceding the month for which the basic                  being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
                                                                    as from the first of each month in the case of the
 amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
 applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the          products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 basic amount must be substituted for the average of the             1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
 levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
 that average ;
                                                                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period              overseas countries and territories with the European
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of           Economic Community (8), no levies shall apply on
 the month following the month for which the basic                  imports of products originating in the overseas countries
amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by         and territories ;
(')  OJ  No L 177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             O   OJ   No  L  159,  1 . 7. 1993, p. 127.
0    OJ  No L 154,  25. 6. 1993, p. 10.                             0   OJ   No  L  181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
O    OJ  No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             o   OJ   No  L  196,  5. 8. 1993, p. 22.
(4)  OJ  No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                            (8) OJ   No  L  263,  19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
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 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as
 amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to
 convert amounts expressed in third country currencies                                                        Article 1
 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
 conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;                           The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
 whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­                      (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
                                                                               indicated in the Annex hereto.
 tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (3);
 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 Regulation,                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1994.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States.
                     Done at Brussels, 31 January 1994.
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                              Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1994 fixing the basic amount of the import
                                    levy on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                        (ECU)
                                                         Basic amount per percentage point
                        CN code                        of sucrose content and per 100 kg net                  Amount of levy per 100 kg
                                                            of the product in question (')                          of dry matter (')
                       1702 20 10                                      0,4168                                             —
                       1702 20 90                                      0,4168                                             —
                       1702 30 10                                        —                                               51,35
                       1702 40 10                                        —                                               51,35
                       1702 60 10                                        —                                               51,35
                       1702 60 90                                      0,4168                                             —
                       1702 90 30                                        —                                               51,35
                       1702 90 60                                      0,4168                                             —
                       1702 90 71                                      0,4168                                             —
                       1702 90 90                                      0,4168                                             —
                       2106 90 30                                        —                                               51,35
                       2106 90 59                                      0,4168                                             —
     (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
(') OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0 OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32.
(3) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.