31973R0145

No L 18 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 23 . 1 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 145/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 22 January 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy 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 com­ 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 sugars 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, however, 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 ) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the application of levies on sugar, as amended by Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 878/69 (4), provides that the 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 0-0526 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 the Article 2 first twenty days of the month preceding the month for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 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 , 22 January 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 . (3) OJ No I. 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p . 42. (4) OJ No L 114, 13 . 5 . 1969, p. 9.