31981R1773

1 . 7 . 81 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 175/61

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1773/81

of 30 June 1981

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of the month following the month for which the basic COMMUNITIES, amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by at least 0-73 ECU from the average referred to Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European above or from the levy on white sugar used to fix the Economic Community, basic amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No sugar used to calculate the alteration ; 3330/74 of 19 December 1974 on the common organ­ ization of the market in sugar ('), as last amended by Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Regulation (EEC) No 3455/80 (2), and in particular levies should be calculated on the following basis : Article 15 (7) thereof, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relation to each other at any given moment within Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on Committee, their effective parity, — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas Article 15 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of 3330/74 provides for charging a levy on imports of the these currencies recorded for a given period in products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ; relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 3330/74 must be calcu­ Whereas the Council has not yet definitely fixed the lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis prices applicable for the new marketing year in the of the sucrose content (including other sugars sugar sector ; whereas, in order to prevent a hitch of expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of continuity in the levy schemes that would cause the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies serious disturbances on the markets, it is necessary, on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the pending the Council's decision on the matter, to fix amount resulting from application of the rate of duty levies on the basis of the data used up to 30 June bound within GAIT ; 1981 ;

Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the on the basis of variations in the threshold price for application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by white sugar occurring between the month in which Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ; of the difference between these two threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to the basic amount Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ Regulation (EEC) No 837/68, 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, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by Article 1 at least 0-73 ECU from that average ; The basic amount of the import levy on the products Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No whereas it must, however, be altered during the period 3330/74 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0-1532 between the day on which it is fixed and the first day ECU per percentage point of sucrose content.

(') OJ No L 359, 31 . 12. 1974, p. 1 . Article 2 O OJ No L 360, 31 . 12. 1980, p. 17. O OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42. (4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34. This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1981 .

No L 175/62 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 7 . 81

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1981 .

For the Commission The President Gaston THORN