31979R1065

No L 135/ 18 1 . 6 . 79 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1065 /79

of 31 May 1979

fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other sugar products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN the first day of the month following the month for COMMUNITIES, which the basic amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by at least 0-60 unit of account Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European from the average referred to above or from the levy on Economic Community, 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 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 396/78 (2), and in particular Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Article 15 (7) thereof, levies should be calculated on the following basis :

— in the case of currencies which are maintained in Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary relation to each other at any given moment within Committee, a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; of these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 in the previous indent ; ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­ lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29 basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars March 1 979 (5) laid down the coefficient for expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies ECU ; on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from application of the rate of duty Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted bound within GATT ; on the basis of variations in the threshold price for white sugar occurring between the month in which Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundreth application of levies on sugar (3 ), as last amended by of the difference between these two threshold prices, Regulation ( EEC) No 1428/78 (4 ), provides that the must be deducted from or added to the basic amount basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose Regulation ( EEC) No 837/68, content ;

Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of the month preceding the month for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, Artide 1 however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted The basic amount of the import levy on the products for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation ( EEC) No at least 0-60 unit of account from that average ; 3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0-3209 ECU per percentage point of sucrose content. Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during the period between the day on which it is fixed and Article 2

( 1 ) OJ No L 359, 31 . 12 . 1974, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1979 . (2 ) OJ No L 170 , 27 . 6 . 1978 , p . 1 . P) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p . 42. («) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6 . 1978 , p . 34 . (M OJ No L 84, 4 . 4. 1979 , p. 1 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 May 1979 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President