CELEX: 31981R1773
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1773/81 of 30 June 1981 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

1 . 7. 81                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 175/61
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1773/81
                                                     of 30 June 1981
             fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar
                                                         products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  of the month following the month for which the basic
COMMUNITIES,                                                    amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs
                                                                by at least 0-73 ECU from the average referred to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            above or from the levy on white sugar used to fix the
Economic Community,                                             basic amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount
                                                                 must be equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    sugar used to calculate the alteration ;
3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organ­
ization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Article 15 (7) thereof,                                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                      relation to each other at any given moment within
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
Committee,                                                            their effective parity,
                                                                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of the
products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;                these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                      in the previous indent ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 )
(d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­                Whereas the Council has not yet definitely fixed the
lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis        prices applicable for the new marketing year in the
of the sucrose content (including other sugars                   sugar sector ; whereas, in order to prevent a hitch of
expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of            continuity in the levy schemes that would cause
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies           serious disturbances on the markets, it is necessary,
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the                pending the Council's decision on the matter, to fix
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty            levies on the basis of the data used up to 30 June
bound within GAIT ;                                               1981 ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                 Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the              on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by           white sugar occurring between the month in which
Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the               the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product            tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth
must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;          of the difference between these two threshold prices,
                                                                 must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal               in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­             Regulation (EEC) No 837/68,
cable to 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,                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day
of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted
for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by                                  Article 1
at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;
                                                                 The basic amount of the import levy on the products
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;               listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period            3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0-1532
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day            ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.
(') OJ  No L 359,   31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 .                                                  Article 2
O   OJ  No L 360,   31 . 12. 1980, p. 17.
O   OJ  No L  151 , 30.  6. 1968, p. 42.
(4) OJ  No L  171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                     The President
                                                                    Gaston THORN