CELEX: 31993R1694
Language: en
Date: 1993-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1694/93 of 30 June 1993 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

No L 159 /38                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                     1 . 7. 93
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1694/93
                                                          of 30 June 1993
                    fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
                                                                     at least ECU 0,73 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81
 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the
 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
 tion (EEC) No 1 548/93 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)        the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
 thereof,                                                            sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
                                                                     amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                     this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products             from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
 listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ;                      provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     837/68 ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)
of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,
where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the            Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 724/93 Q
sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as                 lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable
sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on                 in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a
white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar            result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93
and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from             marketing year ;
application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­            Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation           ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises,
(EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of              under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per              and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
percentage point of sucrose content ;                                dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
                                                                     established pursuant to point B of Article 11 ( 1 ) of
                                                                     Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 766/92 (®) for the fixing of
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to
                                                                     the import levy on the products falling within CN codes
                                                                     1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to
                                                                     the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of
                                                                     being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable
the month preceding the month for which the basic                    as from the first of each month in the case of the
amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy
                                                                     products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the            1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;
basic amount must be substituted for the average of the
levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from
that average ;
                                                                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision
Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                  91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
whereas it must, however, be altered during the period               overseas countries and territories with the European
between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of            Economic Community Q, no levies shall apply on
the month following the month for which the basic                    imports of products originating in the overseas countries
                                                                     and territories ;
(') OJ  No L  177,   1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.
(2) OJ  No L  154,  25. 6. 1993, p. 10.                              0 See page 127 of this Official Journal.
0   OJ  No L  151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                              (6) OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 .
0   OJ  No L  171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34.                            0 OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
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Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (') are used to
convert amounts expressed in third country currencies                                                        Article 1
and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                             The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 )
whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­                     (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­                       indicated in the Annex hereto.
lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (2);
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 July 1993 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 June 1993 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                             Rene STEICHEN
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
                   to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1993 fixing the basic amount of the import levies
                                     on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                                         (ECU)
                                                       Basic amount per percentage point                     Amount of levy per 100 kg
                       CN code                       of sucrose content and per 100 kg net                         of dry matter (')
                                                           of the product in question (')
                      1702 20 10                                      0,4379                                             —
                      1702 20  90                                     0,4379                                             —
                      1702 30  10                                       —                                               53,46
                      1702 40  10                                       —                                               53,46
                      1702 60  10                                       —                                               53,46
                      1702 60 90                                      0,4379                                             —
                      1702 90 30                                        —                                               53,46
                      1702 90  60                                     0,4379                                             —
                      1702 90  71                                     0,4379                                             —
                      1702 90  90                                     0,4379                                             —
                     2106 90   30                                       —                                               53,46
                     2106 90   59                                     0,4379                                             —
    (') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.
O OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p . 106.