31979R2673

No L 305/24 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 12. 79

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2673/79 of 30 November 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 0-73 ECU from the Economic Community, 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 (*), 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 the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 of these currencies recorded for a given period in relation to the Community currencies referred to (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­ lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the in the previous indent ; 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, Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) must be deducted from or added to the basic amount 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, however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day The basic amount of the import levy on the products of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by 3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, at least 0-73 ECU from that average ; 0-2142 ECU per percentage point of 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 . (2) 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 December (4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34. 19 79 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 November 1979 . For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President