CELEX: 31975R1659
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1659/75 of the Commission of 30 June 1975 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

1 . 7. 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 168/27
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1659/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 30 June 1975
                fixing the basic amount of the import levy on 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                   hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
                                                                the alteration ;
organization of the market in ( sugar, and in particular
Article 1 5 (7) thereof ;
                                                                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee ;                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of                   on their effective parity ;
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 oh 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
the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies          Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted
on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the               on the basis of variations in the threshold price for
amount resulting from application of the rate of duty           white sugar occurring between the month in which
bound within GATT ;                                             the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­
                                                                tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth
Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                of the difference between these 'two threshold prices,
                                                                must be deducted from or added to the basic amount
No 837/68 (2) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for
the application of levies on sugar, as amended by               in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (3), provides that the             Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ,
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
on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount             The basic amount of the import levy on the products
must be substituted for the average of the levies,              listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No
where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account        3330/74 is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
from that average ;                                             product, at 00666 unit of account per percentage
                                                                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 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.
P)'OJ No L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1975.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 30 June 1975.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                              • "                             Member of the Commission
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