31984R3357

No L 313 / 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 12 . 84

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3357 / 84 of 30 November 1984 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN between the day on which it is fixed and the first day COMMUNITIES , of the month following the month for which the basic 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 ; 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 606/82 (2), and in particular Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted Article 16 (8) thereof, on the basis of variations in the threshold price for white sugar occurring between the month in which Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary the basic amount is fixed and the period of applica­ Committee, tion ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference between these two threshold prices, must be deducted from or added to the basic amount Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 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 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calcu­ Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article lated, where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis 1 ( 1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of the sucrose content (including other sugars comprises, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a expressed as sucrose) of the product concerned and of variable element and a fixed element, with the latter, the levy on white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one­ on maple sugar and maple syrup are limited to the tenth of the fixed element established pursuant to amount resulting from application of the rate of duty point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No bound within GATT ; 2727/75 (*) for the fixing of the import levy on the products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the Common Customs Tariff, and the variable element, Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one No 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the hundred times the basic import levy applicable as application of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by from the first of each month in the case of the Regulation (EEC) No 1428 /78 (4), provides that the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ; 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, however, the levy applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted — in the case of currencies which are maintained in for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by relation to each other at any given moment within at least 0,73 ECU from that average ; a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the coefficient Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; provided for in Article 2b (2) of Regulation (EEC) whereas it must, however, be altered during the period No 974/71 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 855/ 84 0,

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p. 4. (2) OJ No L 74, 18 . 3 . 1982, p. 1 . n OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . O OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. (6) OJ No L 106, 12. 5. 1971 , p. 1 . 4 OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978 , p. 34 . 0 OJ No L 90, 1 . 4. 1984, p. 1 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the 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), (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 December 1984 . tion,

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

Done at Brussels, 30 November 1984. For the Commission Poul DALSAGER Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 November 1984 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the 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 0,4419 D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and malto-dextrine) : I. Isoglucose 53,86 ex II . Other 0,4419

— E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey 0,4419 F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry — state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose 0,4419

21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included : I

F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups : III . Isoglucose 53,86 IV. Other 0,4419