31973R3271

5 . 12 . 73 No L 334/8 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3271 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 December 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 sion that the levies at present in force should be organization of the market in sugar, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1928/73 (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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Committee ; Whereas the import levies on white sugar and raw Article 1 sugar were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1738 /73 (3) 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 5 December 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, 4 December 1973 . For the Commission P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(») OJ No 308, 18 . 12. 1967, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 199, 19. 7. 1973, p. 7. (3) OJ No L 176, 30 . 6. 1973, p. 30 . ANNEX fu.a. /100 kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. White sugar 2·71 II. Raw sugar 2·87 (x)

B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 2·71 II. Raw sugar 2·87 n

(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 837/68.