31973R2622

No L 271 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 9 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2622/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 September 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 ( 1) 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 1 4 (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 1 738/73 (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 28 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each September 1973 .

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

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

0 ) OJ No 308 , 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 199, 19. 7. 1973, p. 7. h) OJ No L 176, 30. 6. 1973, p. 30. ANNEX (u.a./100 kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. White sugar 7.97 II. Raw sugar 6.01 (!)

B. Undenatured : 7.97 I. White sugar II. Raw sugar 6.01 (!)

(i) 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 137/68. _