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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2225 /84 of 31 July 1984 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

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 markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) thereof, Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on the basis of variations in the threshold price for Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary white sugar occurring between the month in which Committee, the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of' the difference between these two threshold prices, Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No must be deducted from or added to the basic amount 1785/81 provides for charging a levy on imports of the in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ;

Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­ 1 ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis comprises, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a of the sucrose content (including other sugars variable element and a fixed element, with the latter, expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one­ the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies tenth of the fixed element established pursuant to on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No amount resulting from application of the rate of duty 2727/75 (*) for the fixing of the import levy on the bound within GATT ; products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the Common Customs Tariff, and the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) hundred times the basic import levy applicable as No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the from the first of each month in the case of the application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product month : must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;

Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, to one-hundredth of the average of the levies appli­ levies should be calculated on the following basis : 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, — 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 for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient at least 0,73 ECU from that average ; provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 974/71 , as last amended by Regulation (EEC) (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. No 855/ 84, O OJ No L 74, 18 . 3 . 1982, p. 1 . H OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. («) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34. 0 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 over a given period in Article 1 relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous indent and the aforesaid coeffi­ The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 cient : (1) (d), 0 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 August tion, 1984.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 July 1984.

For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to die Commission Regulation of 31 July 1984 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in die sugar sector

(ECU) Basic amount per percentage point CCT Amount of levy of sucrose content 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 :

— C. Maple sugar and other syrup 0,4675 D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and malto-dextrine) : I. Isoglucose 56,42 ex II . Other 0,4675 0,4675 — E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry 0,4675 — 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 56,42 IV. Other 0,4675