31973R1870

No L 191 / 22 Official Journal of the European Communities 12. 7 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1870/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 11 July 1973 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the basic amount must be fixed every COMMUNITIES , month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during the period between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of the month following the month for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on Economic Community ; white sugar differs by at least 0-40 unit of account from the average referred to above or from the levy on Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in 67/EEC (!) of 18 December 1967 on the common this case, the basic amount must be equal to one organization of the market in sugar, as last amended hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate by Regulation (EEC) No 1014/73 (2), and in particular the alteration ; Article 14 (7) thereof ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary levies should be calculated on the following basis : Committee ; — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other, at any given moment, Whereas Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation No 1009/ within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based 67/EEC provides for charging a levy on imports of the on their effective parity ; products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/67/ EEC must be calcu­ relation to the Community currencies referred to lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the in the previous subparagraph ; basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on the basis of variations in the threshold price for on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the white sugar occurring between the month in which amount resulting from application of the rate of duty the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ bound within GATT ; tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one hundredth of the difference between these two threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to the basic amount Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of No 837/68 (3) of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ; the application of levies on sugar, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilogrammes of product must be fixed per percentage of sucrose content ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal Article 1 to one hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ cable to 100 kilogrammes of white sugar during the first twenty days of the month preceding the month The basic amount of the import levy on the products for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation No 1009/ whereas, however, the levy applicable to white sugar 67/EEC is hereby fixed, per 100 kilogrammes of on the day preceding the fixing of the basic amount product, at 0-0805 unit of account per percentage must be substituted for the average of the levies, point of sucrose content. where that levy differs by at least 0-40 unit of account from that average ; Article 2 (») OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973, p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p . 42. This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 July 4 OJ No L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p . 8 . 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 11 July 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission