31973R1818

No L 184/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 7 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1818/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 July 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/EEC (1) of 18 December 1967 on the common provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1738/73 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended to the information at present available to the Commis­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (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 1738/73 (3) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and subsequent amending Regulations ;

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Article 1 levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation 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 ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the Article 2 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 July 1973.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 July 1973.

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(») OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973, p. 1 . 4 WWFY (3) OJ No L 176, 30. 6. 1973, p. 30. ANNO.A (u.a.flOO kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Le*y No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :

A. Denatured : I. White sugar 7-77 II. Raw sugar 5-81 (»)

B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 7-77 II. Raw sugar 5-81 (η

(') 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.