CELEX: 31987R4035
Language: en
Date: 1987-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4035/87 of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 378 /72                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                  31 . 12. 87
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4035/87
                                                    of 30 December 1987
                 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to above or
                                                                   from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be
Economic Community,                                                equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
                                                                   calculate the alteration ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                          Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
                                                                   the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81               sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                  amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­        this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
tion (EEC) No 3993/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)        between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
thereof,                                                           from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
                                                                   provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            837/68 ;
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81            Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
provides for charging a levy on imports of the products            (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                     under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
                                                                   and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d)     dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,                 established pursuant to point B of Article 14 (1 ) of
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the          Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as               by Regulation (EEC) No 3989/87 (*), for the fixing of the
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on               import levy on the products falling within subheadings
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar           1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50 of the
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from           combined nomenclature, and the variable element, per
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;                 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one hundred
                                                                   times the basic import levy applicable as from the first of
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                each month in the case of the products listed in Article 1
837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­          (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation          must be fixed each month ;
(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 ;                              Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 Q intro­
                                                                    duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­
                                                                    ture meeting the requirements of both the Common
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to               Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to            trade and replacing the present nomenclature ;
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of
the month preceding the month for which the basic
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the          should be calculated on the following basis :
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the
 levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 that average ;                                                          tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                         of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                      rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period                   the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
 between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
 the month following the month for which the basic                       tion (EEC) No 1636/87f),
 amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
                                                                    O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                                (*) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987.
0 OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987.                                       0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                               (Y) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
b) OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                                 9 OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
     these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                                      Article 1
     tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;                 The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
                                                                      (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
                                                                      indicated in the Annex hereto.
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 January 1988 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 30 December 1987.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                      Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1987 fixing the import levies 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 dry matter
                                                     of the product in question
                    1702 20 10                                 0,5008
                    1702 20 90                                 0,5008
                    1702 30 10                                                                             59,75
                    1702 40 10                                                                             59,75
                    1702 60 10                                                                             59,75
                    1702 60 90                                 0,5008
                    1702 90 30                                                                             59,75
                    1702 90 60                                 0,5008
                    1702 90 71                                 0,5008
                    1702 90 90                                 0,5008
                    2106 90 30                                                                             59,75
                    2106 90 59                                 0,5008