31981R1809

No L 181 /26 Official Journal of the European Communities 2 . 7 . 81

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1809/81

of 1 July 1981

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; COMMUNITIES, whereas it must, however, be altered during the period between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of the month following the month for which the basic Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs Economic Community, by at least 0-73 ECU 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 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No must be equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization sugar used to calculate the alteration ; of the market in sugar ('), and in particular Article 1 6 (8) 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 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No their effective parity, 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on 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 relation to the Community currencies referred to Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) in the previous indent ; (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­ lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the sucrose content (including other sugars Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of on the basis of variations in the threshold price for the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies white sugar occurring between the month in which on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ amount resulting from application of the rate of duty tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth bound within GATT ; of the difference between these two threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 , No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the application of levies on sugar (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (3), 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 Article 1 to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ 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 import levy on the products the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day 1785/81 shall be, per 100 kilograms of product, 0-1683 of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted ECU per percentage point of sucrose content. for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;

Article 2 (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42. 0 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34. This Regulation shall enter into force on 2 July 1981 .

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

Done at Brussels, 1 July 1981 . For the Commission The President Gaston THORN