CELEX: 31988R3734
Language: en
Date: 1988-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3734/88 of 30 November 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

1 . 12. 88                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 328/9
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3734/88
                                                       of 30 November 1988
                     fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of
                                                                     the month following the month for which the basic
                                                                      amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to above or
  Economic Community,                                                 from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic
                                                                      amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to
  Portugal,                                                           calculate the alteration ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) Nd 1785/81
  of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the                   Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on
  markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­         the basis of variations in the threshold price for white
  tion (EEC) No 2306/88 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8)         sugar occurring between the month in which the basic
  thereof,                                                            amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas
                                                                      this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             between these two threshold prices, must be deducted
                                                                      from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances
                                                                      provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No
  Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81              837/68 :
   provides for charging a levy on imports of the products
   lasted in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;
  Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d)       Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1
   of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated,                 (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EECi) No 1785/81 comprises,
   where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the          under Article. 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element
   sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as               and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of
   sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on               dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element
   white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar          established pursuant to point B of Article 14 (1 ) of
   and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from            Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended
   application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;                by Regulation (EEC) No 2221 /88 (% for the fixing of the
                                                                       import levy on the products falling within CN codes
                                                                       1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and
   Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                 the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter,
   837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­          being equal to one hundred times the basic import levy
   tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation          applicable as from the first of each month in the case of
   (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of             the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC)
   the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per             No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each
   percentage point of sucrose content ;                               month ;
   Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to
   one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to
    100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
   the month preceding the month for which the basic                   should be calculated on the following basis :
   amount of the levy is fixed ; wherieas, however, the levy
   applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
   basic amount must be substituted for the average of the
    levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from               tion to each other at any given moment within a band
    that average ;                                                          of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                            rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                            the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
"  Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ;                      tion (EEC) No 1676/85 f7), as last amended by Regula­
   whereas it must, however, be altered during the period                   tion (EEC) No 1 636/87 (8),
    (') OJ  No L 177,  1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4.                             0   OJ   No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975,  p. 1.
    (2) OJ  No L 201 , 27. 7. 1988, p. 65.                             (6) OJ   No  L 197,  26. 7.   1988 , p. 16.
    0   OJ  No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42.                             0   OJ   No  L 164,  24. 6.   1985,  p. 1.
    (<) OJ  No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34.                             (8) OJ   No  L  153, 13. 6.   1987,  p. 1.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 328/ 10                         Official Journal of the European Communities                                          1 . 12. 88
    for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    arithmetic mean , of the spot market rates of each of
    these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­                                     Article 1
    tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
    previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;                The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1)
                                                                    (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as
                                                                    indicated in the Annex hereto.
                                                                                               Article 2
Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­
sions that the import levies on the products concerned              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regulation,             1988 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 30 November 1988 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
                                                           ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 30 November 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and
                                       certain other products in the sugar sector
                                                                                                                            (ECU)
                                               Basic amount per percentage point
                   CN code                   of sucrose content and per 100 kg net       Amount of levy per 100 kg of dry matter
                                                   of the product in question
                  1702 20 10                                 0,4408
                  1702 20 90                                 0,4408
                  1702 30 10
                                                                                                         53,75
                  1702 40 10
                                                                                                         53,75
                  1702 60 10
                                                                                                         53,75
                  1702 60 90                                 0,4408
                  1702 90 30
                                                                                                         53,75
                  1702 90 60                                 0,4408
                  1702 90 71                                 0,4408
                  1702 90 90                                 0,4408
                 2106 90 30
                                                                                                         53,75
                 2106 90 59                                  0,4408