CELEX: 31973R0647
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 647/73 of the Commission of 6 March 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

7. 3 . 73                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 61 / 19
                                     REGULATION (EEC) No 647/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 6 March 1973
                   fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         where that levy differs by at least 0 40 unit of ac­
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                           count from that average ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
 pean Economic Community ;                                                month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
                                                                         the period between the day on which it is fixed and
 Having regard to Council Regulation No                                   the first day of the month following the month for
 1009/67/EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the com­                         which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
 mon organization of the market in sugar, as last                        white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 174/73 ( 2), and                         from the average referred to above or from the levy
 in particular Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                   on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; where­
                                                                          as, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                            one hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
 Committee ;                                                              calculate the alteration ;
 Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No                               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 1009/67/EEC provides for charging a levy on im­                         levies   should be calculated on the basis        of an
 ports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that                 exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
 Regulation ;                                                            which are floating or whose central rate differs from
                                                                         the official parity, on the effective rate or the
                                                                         central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1
 ( 1 ) (d ) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be cal­                    the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
                                                                         on 13 February 1973 ;
culated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on
the basis of the sucrose content ( including other sugars
 expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned                          Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
and of the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however,                       justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
 the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                     for white sugar occurring between the month in
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the                     which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
rate of duty bound within GATT ;                                         application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
                                                                         hundredth      of  the  difference between   these  two
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC )                        threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                      the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                        Article 7 ( 6) of Regulation (EEC ) No 837/68 ;
Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­
tent ;
                                                                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal
to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­                                              Article 1
cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the
first twenty days of the month preceding the month                      The basic amount of the import levy on the pro
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;                       ducts listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No
whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                    1009/67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes
on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                     of product, at 0-0571 unit of account per percentage
must be substituted for the average of the levies,                      point of sucrose content.
                                                                                                  Article 2
(»)   OJ   No  308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 .
(2)   OJ   No  L 25 , 30 . 1 . 1973 , p. 1 .
(s)   OJ   No  I. 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 March
(<)   OJ   No  I. 114, 13 . 5 . 1969, p. 9 .                             1973 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 6 March 1973 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                Member of the Commission
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