31976R1535

No L 170/ 12 29 . 6 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1535 / 76

of 28 June 1976

fixing the import levies on sugar beet and sugar cane for the 1976/77 sugar marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN 1976 fixing for the 1976/77 sugar year the derived COMMUNITIES, intervention prices, the intervention prices for raw beet sugar, the minimum prices for beet, the thre­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European shold prices and the maximum amount of the produc­ Economic Community, tion levy and fixing the coefficient for calculating the Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No special maximum quota (5 ), 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ zation of the market in sugar (J), as last amended by HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Regulation (EEC) No 832/76 (2), and in particular Article 15 (7) thereof, Article 1 Whereas Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 provides that an import levy must be fixed by the The levies provided for in Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation Commission on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) (EEC) No 3330/74 applicable to imports of the of that Regulation ; whereas that levy must be calcu­ products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (b) of that Regulation lated at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose are hereby fixed as follows for the 1976/77 marketing content of each of those products and the levy on year : white sugar ;

CCT Whereas Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EEC) u.a . per heading Description of goods metric ton No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the No application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1491 /70 (4), provides that the 12.04 Sugar beet, whole or sliced, levy applicable to these products, which is fixed for fresh , dried or powdered ; each marketing year, is obtained by multiplying by a sugar cane : coefficient the difference, in respect of 100 kilo­ A. Sugar beet : grammes of white sugar, between the threshold price I. Fresh 17.76 valid for the relevant marketing year and the arith­ 61.05 II . Dried or powdered metic average of cif prices recorded during a reference B. Sugar cane 12.21 period ; whereas the coefficients and the reference period were fixed by Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 837/ 68 ; Article 2 Whereas the threshold price for white sugar was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No 834/76 of 6 April This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(») OJ No L 359, 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 100 , 14 . 4. 1976, p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. (4) OJ No L 165, 28 . 7. 1970, p. 8 . (5 ) OJ No L 100, 14. 4. 1976, p. 25 .