CELEX: 31976R2649
Language: en
Date: 1976-10-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2649/76 of 29 October 1976 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

30. 10 . 76                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 300/37
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2649/76
                                                            of 29 October 1976
                  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
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           this 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
                                                                        the alteration ;
 zation of the market in sugar ( J), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1487/76 (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 a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                             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 subparagraph ;
 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 hundredth
                                                                        of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                        must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
 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 amended by Regu­                Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
 lation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the 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
                                                                        The basic amount of the import levy on the products
 on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be
                                                                        listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
 substituted for the average of the levies, where that
 levy differs by at least 0 40 unit of account from that                3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
                                                                        product, at 0-1868 unit of account per percentage
 average ;
                                                                        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 .
(2)   OJ   No  L 167,  26.  6. 1976, p. 9 .
(J)   OJ   No  L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p . 42.                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
(4)   OJ   No  L 165,  28 . 7 . 1970 , p. 8 .                           1976 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 29 October 1976 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission