31979R0610

No L 79 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 3 . 79

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 610/79 of 30 March 1979 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the period between the day on which it is fixed and COMMUNITIES, the first day of the month following the month for** which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European white sugar differs by at least 0-60 unit of account Economic Community, from the average referred to above or from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to one­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organi­ the alteration ; zation of the market in sugar ( l ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1396/78 (2), and in particular Article 15 (7) thereof, Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Committee, relation to each other at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No their effective parity ; 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 relation to the Community currencies referred to ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­ in the previous indent ; lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on the basis of variations in the threshold price for on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the white sugar occurring between the month in which amount resulting from application of the rate of duty the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ bound within GATT ; tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth of the difference between these two threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to the basic amount Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 , Regulation (EEC) No 1428 /78 (4), provides that the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first Article 1 20 days of the month preceding the month for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, The basic amount of the import levy on the products however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted 3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by 0-2680 unit of account per percentage point of at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ; sucrose content .

Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during Article 2 (') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978 , p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1979 . (4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 March 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President