31973R1753

30 . 6. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 176/71

REGULATION (EEC) No 1753/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 June 1973 fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane for the 1973/74 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the derived intervention prices, the intervention prices COMMUNITIES, for 'raiw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the 'threshoikl prices, the guaranteed quantity, the maxi­ Having regaird to the Treaty establishing (the Euro­ mum amount of the production levy and special pean Economic Community ; maximum quota ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC (*) of 18 December 1967 on the common organi­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : zation of the market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular Article 14 (7) thereof ; Article 1 Whereas Article 14 of Regulation No 1009/67/EEC provides that an import levy must be fixed by the Tihe levies provided for in Antiale 14 ( 1 ) of Regu­ Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b ) lation No 1009/67/EEC, applicable to imports of the of chat Regulation ; whereas that ilevy must be cal­ products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b ) of that Regulation culated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose are hereby fixed as follows for the 1973/74 market­ content of each of those products and the levy on ing year : white sugar ;

Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC) CCT No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed ruiles for u.a . per heading Description of goods metric ton No flhe application of levies on sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491/70 (4), provides that the 12.04 Sugar beet, whole or levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for sliced, fresh, dried or each marketing year, is obtained by mulltiplying by a powdered ; sugar cane : coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilo­ grammes of white sugar, between the threshold price A. Sugar beet : valid for the relevant marketing year and the arith­ I. Fresh 10-32 metic mean of cif prices recorded during a reference II. Dried or powdered 35-48 period ; whereas the coefficients and the reference B. Sugar cane 7-10 period were fixed by Article 6 of Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68 ;

Whereas tihe threshold price for white sugar was Article 2 fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1637/73 (5) of 18 June 1973 fixing for the 1973 /74 marketing year This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 . For the Commission The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(*) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (*) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973 , p . 1 . (») OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p . 42 . («) OJ No L 165 , 28 . 7. 1970, p . 8 . («) OJ No L 165 , 22 . 6. 1973 , p . 1 .