CELEX: 31975R0249
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 249/75 of the Commission of 31 January 1975 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

No L 27/20                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 2 . 75
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 249/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 31 January 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 No 1009/                         this case , the basic amount must be equal to one
  67/EEC ( !) of 18 December 1967 on the common                        hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate
  organization of the market in sugar, as last amended                 the alteration ;
  by Regulation (EEC) No 2476/74 (2), and in particular
  Article 14 (7) thereof ;                                             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
  Committee ;                                                          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
  Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/                            within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
  67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the                      on their effective parity ;
  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 on the products listed in Article 1                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
  ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/ 67/ EEC 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 (3) 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 (4), 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                                            Articic 1
   for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ;
   whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar                 The basic amount of the import levy on the products
   on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount                  listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/
   must be substituted for the average of the levies,                   67/ EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of
   where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account
   from that average ;                                                  product, at 0 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  308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 .
   (2)  OJ  No  L 264, 1 . 10 . 1974, p. 70.
   (3)  OJ  No  L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42.                           This Regulation shall enter into f6rce on 1 February
   (4 ) OJ  No  L 165, 28 . 7. 1970 , p. 8 .                             I 975 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 31 January 1975.
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                              Member of the Commission