31981R2828

No L 277/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 10 . 81

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2828 / 81

of 30 September 1981

fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by COMMUNITIES, at least 0-73 ECU from that average ;

Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, 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 amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No by at least 0-73 ECU from the average referred to 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization above or from the levy on white sugar used to fix the of the market in sugar ('), and in particular Article 1 6 basic amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount (8) thereof, must be equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate the alteration ;

Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on the basis of variations in the threshold price for white sugar occurring between the month in which Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; 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 the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ; (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 levy on the products referred to in Article expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of 1 (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies comprises, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element and a fixed element, with the latter, on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from application of the rate of duty per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one­ bound within GATT ; tenth of the fixed element established pursuant to point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (4) for the fixing of the import levy on the products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) Common Customs Tariff, and the variable element, No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one application of levies on sugar (2),' as last amended by hundred times the basic import levy applicable as Regulation (EEC) No 1428 /78 (3), provides that the from the first of each month in the case of the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ; No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ;

Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ Whereas, if the levy ' system is to operate normally, cable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first levies should be calculated on the following basis : 20 days of the month preceding the month for which the basic amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, — in the case of currencies which are maintained in however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day relation to each other at any given moment within of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity, (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p . 4. (2) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 ,' p . 42. O OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p . 34. (4) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p . 1 .

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— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period in Article 1 relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent ; The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as indicated in the Annex hereto.

Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­ Article 2 sions that the import levies on the products concerned should be as indicated in the Annex to this Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October tion , 1981 .

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

Done at Brussels, 30 September 1981 . For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 September 1981 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

(ECU) Basic amount CCT per percentage point of sucrose content Amount of levy heading Description per 100 kg No and per 100 kg net of dry matter of the product in question

17.02 Other sugars in solid form ; sugar syrups, not containing added flavouring or colouring matter ; artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey ; caramel : 0-2585 — C. Maple sugar anf other syrup D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and malto-dextrine) : I. Isoglucose 35-52 ex II . Other 0-2585 E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey 0-2585 — F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry 0-2585 — state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose

21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included : F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups : III. Isoglucose 35-52 IV. Other 0-2585