31973R3483

No L 357/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 12 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3483/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 December 1973 altering the special export levy on white sugar and raw sugar

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the COMMUNITIES , arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European relation to the Community currencies referred to Economic Community ; in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 1009/ Whereas it follows from applying the rules, criteria 67/ EEC (") of 18 December 1967 on the common and other provisions contained in amended Regula­ organization of the market in sugar, as last amended tion (EEC) No 3150/73 to the information at present by Regulation (EEC) No 1 928 /73 (2) ; available to the Commission that the special export Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No levy at present in force should be altered as shown in 608/72 (3 ) of 23 March 1972 laying down rules to be the Annex to this Regulation , applied in cases of considerable price rises on the world sugar market, and in particular Article 1 (2) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Article / Whereas the special export levy on white sugar and The special export levy on sugar provided for in the raw sugar was fixed by Regulation (EEC) No second subparagraph of Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation 3150 /73 (4 ), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No No 1009 / 67 / EEC fixed in the Annex to amended 3453/ 73 (5 ) ; Regulation ( EEC) No 3150 /73 , is altered as shown in Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the Annex to this Regulation . levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 December 1 973 . on their effective parity ;

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

Done at Brussels; 27 December 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 308 , 18 . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (2) OJ Slo L 199, 19 . 7 . 1 973, p. 7. (3 ) OJ No L 75, 28 . 3 . 1 972, p. 5 . (•*) OJ No L 321 , 22. 11 . 1973 , p. 16 . (5) OJ No L 353 , 22. 12 . 1973 , p. 31 .

28 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 357/ 17

ANNEX

(u.a. /100 kg) Amount of the CCT heading No Description of goods special export levy

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid :

A. Denatured : I. white sugar 7·00 II. raw sugar 8·50

B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 7·00 ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar 8·50 H

(*) This amount applies to raw sugar with a 92 °/o yield . If the yield of the exported raw sugar is different from 92 •/• the levy to be applied shall be calculated in conformity with Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1076/72 .