31973R3549

No L 361 /36 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 12. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 3549/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 21 December 1973 fixing the difference in the prices of white sugar to be used for calculating the levy for products processed from fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN calculated for a period covering the first fifteen days COMMUNITIES, of the month preceding the quarter for which the difference is being determined and the two months Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European immediately preceding that month ; whereas pursuant Economic Community ; to Article 2 (3) of that Regulation, this difference must Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No be determined by the Commission for each quarter of 865/68 I1) of 28 June 1968 on the common organiza­ the calendar year, tion of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 2429/72 (2), and in particular Article 2 (3) therof ;

Whereas, in order to enable the Member States to Article 1 determine the amount of the levy applicable in respect of the various added sugars, on imports of the For the period 1 January to 31 March 1974, the differ­ products listed in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No ence provided for in Article 2 (2) of Council Regula­ 865/68 , it is necessary, in accordance with Article 2(2) tion (EEC) No 865/68 is fixed at 0-0518 units of of that Regulation, to determine the difference account. between the average of the threshold prices for one kilogramme of white sugar for each month of the Article 2 quarter for which the difference is being determined and the average of the cif prices for one kilogramme This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January of white sugar used in fixing the levies on white sugar, 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 . For the Commission

The President Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

0) OJ No L 153, 1 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . (2) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972, p. 1 .