CELEX: 31976R2902
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2902/76 of 30 November 1976 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

1 . 12. 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 332/23
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2902/76
                                                       of 30 November 1976
                fixing the basic amount of the import levy oi > 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
zation of the market in sugar (*), as last amended by                the alteration ;
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,
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 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 1896 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.
 (})  OJ  No  L 151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
 (<)  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, 30 November 1976.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission