31973R3297

7 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 338 /21

REGULATION (EEC) No 3297/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 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 ( 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 1928/73 (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 7 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, 6 December 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. P) OJ No L 176, 30. 6. 1973, p. 30 . ANNEX (u.a./100 feg )

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. White sugar 2.24 II. Raw sugar 2.87 (*) B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 2.24 II. Raw sugar 2.87 (*)

(*) 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.