31974R0043

No L 6/ 8 Official Journal of the European Communities 8 . 1 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 43 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 7 January 1974 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 1928 / 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 1

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 37/74 (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 8 January 1974 . on their effective parity ;

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

Done at Brussels, 7 January 1974.

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 . 3 OJ No L 75, 28 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . («) OJ No L 321 , 22. 11 . 1973 , p . 16 . (5 ) OJ No L 4, 5 . 1 . 1974, p . 19 .

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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 : L white sugar 6-50 II. raw sugar 8-00 i1) B. Undenatured : I. White sugar 6-50 ex II. Raw sugar other than candy sugar 8-00 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.