31973R1699

No L 173 / 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 6 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1699/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 June 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN relation to the Community currencies referred to COMMUNITIES, in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was Economic Community ; requested ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009 / Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other 67/ EECC ) of 18 December 1967 on the common provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 254/73 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended to the information at present available to the Commis­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1 74/73 (2), and in particular sion that the levies at present in force should be Article 14(7) thereof ; altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 254/73 (3) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and subsequent amending Regulations ; Article 1 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation — in the case of currencies which are maintained in No 1009/67/ EEC are, in respect of white sugar and relation to each other, at any given moment, standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in within a band of 2 25 % , a rate of exchange based the Annex to this Regulation . on their effective parity ; Article 2 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 June of these currencies recorded for a given period, in 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 27 June 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973 , p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 30 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . 30 . ANNEX (u.a.1100 kg)

CCT heading Description of good· Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. White sugar 6-57 II. Raw sugar 4-75 (») B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 6-57 II. Raw sugar 4-75 n

(*) Applicable to raw sugar with a yield of 92 '/• ; if the yield is other than 92 ·/·, the levy applicable is calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68.