31974R0097

16 . 1 . 74 No L 13 / 7 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 97 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 15 January 1974 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 organization of the market in sugar, as last amended sion that the levies at present in force should be by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 928 / 73 (-), and in particular altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation , Article 14(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 1738 /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 16 January 1974 . 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 , 15 January 1974 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 308 , IS . 12 . 1967, p . 1 . (-') OJ No L 199 , 19 . 7 . 1973 , p . 7 . (J ) OJ No L 176 , 30 . 6 . 1973 , p . 30 .

ANNEX (ti . a . 1 100 kg)

CCT heading Description of goods Levy No

17.01 Beet sugar and cane sugar, solid : A. Denatured : I. White sugar 0 II . Raw sugar 0 B. Undenatured : '. White sugar 0 II . Raw sugar 0