31973R2123

No L 215 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 3 . 8 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 2123 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 2 August 1973 fixing the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of these currencies recorded for a given period , in COMMUNITIES , relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ provisions contained in Regulation ( EEC) No 1738 /73 67/ EEC (') of 18 December 1967 on the common to the information at present available to the Commis­ organization of the market in sugar, as last amended . sion that the levies at present in force should be by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 928 / 73 ( 2 ), and in particular altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Article 14(7) thereof ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw sugar were fixed by Regulation ( EEC) No 1738 /73 (3 ) Article 1 and subsequent amending Regulations ; The levies referred to in Article 14(1 ) of Regulation Whereas , if the levy system is to operate normally, No 1009 / 67/ EEC are , in respect of white sugar and levies should be calculated on the following basis : standard quality raw sugar, hereby fixed as shown in — in the case of currencies which are maintained in the Annex to this Regulation . relation to each other, at any given moment , within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Article 2 on their effective parity ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 August 1973 . arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each

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

Done at Brussels , 2 August 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(>) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 199 , 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 . (3 ) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6 . 1973 , p . 30 . ANNEX { u.a . 1100 kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. "White sugar 8-29 II . Raw sugar 6-50 H B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 8-29 II . Raw sugar 6-50 ( J )

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