CELEX: 31973R0027
Language: en
Date: 1973-01-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 27/73 of the Commission of 4 January 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

5 . 1 . 73                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 5/27
                                       REGULATION (EEC) Na27/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 4   huary 1973
                 fixing the basic amount of the impoft                on syrups and certain other sugar products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount
COMMUNITIES ,                                                            must be substituted for the average of the levies,
                                                                         where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of ac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                       count from that average ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                         Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every
Having regard to Council Regulation No                                   month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during
1009/67/EEC             of 18 December 1967 on the cojp­                 the period between the day on which it is fixed and
mon organisation of the market in sugar, as last                         the first day of the month following the month for
amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 2429/72 (2), and                         which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on
in particular Article 14 (7 ) thereof ;                                  white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
                                                                         from the average referred to above or from the levy
Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No                                on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; where­
1009/67/EEC provides for charging a levy on im­                          as, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to
ports of the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that                  one hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
Regulation ;                                                             calculate the alteration ;
Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1                     Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be ad­
( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC must be cal­                      justed on the basis of variations in the threshold price
culated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on                        for white sugar occurring between the month in
the basis of the sucrose content ( including other sugary                which the basic amount is fixed and the period of
expressed as sucrose ) of the product concerned                          application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one
and of the levy on white sugar ; whereas, howev^,                        hundredth      of  the difference  between   these  two
 the levies on maple sugar and maple syrup are limi­                     threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to
 ted to the amount resulting from application of the                     the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in
rate of duty bound within GATT ;                                         Article 7 ( 6) of Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ;
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 837/68 ( 3 ) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by                                                 Article 1
Regulation ( EEC ) No 878 /69 ( 4), provides that th'fe
basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of                          The basic amount of the import levy on the pro­
product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose con­                     ducts listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) ( d ) of Regulation No
 tent ;                                                                  1009/67/EEC is hereby fixed , per 100 kilogrammes
                                                                         of product, at 0-0499 unit of account per percentage
Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal                       point of sucrose content.
to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­
cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during, tin.                                              Article 2
 first twenty days of the month preceding the month
for which the basic amount of the levy is fixecj i                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 January
 whereas , however, the levy applicable to white sugar                    1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels , 4 January 1973 .
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     The Vice-President
                                                                             Carlo SCARASCIA MUGNOZZA
 (>)    OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p. ).
 (-')   OJ No L 264 , 23 . 11 . 1972 , p. 1 .
 ( :i ) OJ No 1 . 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42 .
 (4 )   OJ No I. 114 , 13 . 5 . 1969 , p. 9 .