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Date: 1974-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 151/74 of the Commission of 21 January 1974 altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar

No L 17/8                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                             22 . 1 . 74
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 151 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 21 January 1974
                              altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
Economic Community ;                                                       in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/
67/EEC ( 1) of 18 December 1967 on the common                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules, criteria
organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                   and other provisions contained in amended Regula­
by Regulation (EEC) No 1928 /73 (2) ;                                  tion (EEC) No 3150/73 to the information at present
                                                                       available to the Commission that the special export
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           levy at present in force should be altered as shown in
608/72 (3) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be                    the Annex to this Regulation,
applied in cases of considerable price rises on the
world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 (2)
thereof ;                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                                                    Article 1
Whereas the special export levy on white sugar and
raw sugar was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No                             The special export levy on sugar provided for in the
3150/73 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation
                                                                       No 1009/67/ EEC fixed in the Annex to amended
141 /74 (5 ) ;
                                                                       Regulation (EEC) No 3150/73, is altered as shown in
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    the Annex to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                            Article 2
    relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 January
    on their effective parity ;                                         1974 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 21 January 1974.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
0)  OJ No     308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No     L 199, 19. 7. 1973, p. 7.
(3) OJ No     L 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p. 5.
(4) OJ No      L 321 , 22. 11 . 1973, p. 16.
(5) OJ No      L 16, 19 . 1 . 1974, p. 21 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                                  (u.a.1100 ifegj
              CCT heading                                                                                      Amount of tne
                    No                                       Description of goods                              special exporf
                                                                                                                     levy
           17.01                    Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :
                                    A. Denatured :
                                        I. white sugar                                                              18-50
                                       II . raw sugar                                                               16-00 (!)
                                    B. Undenatured :
                                             I. White sugar                                                         18-50
                                       ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar                                      16-00 f 1 )
           (') This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 °/o yield . If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from
               92 •/« the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1076/72.