31987R1455

28 . 5. 87 No L 138 / 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1455/87 of 27 May 1987 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; whereas it must, however, be altered during the period between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the month following the month for which the basic Economic Community, amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to above or from the levy on white sugar used to fix the basic Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and amount ; whereas, in this case, the basic amount must be Portugal, equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to calculate the alteration ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­ Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on tion (EEC) No 229/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) the basis of variations in the threshold price for white thereof, sugar occurring between the month in which the basic amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, 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 Regulation (EEC) No Whereas Article 16 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 837/68 : provides for charging a levy on imports of the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ;

Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1 Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises, of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated, under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on established pursuant to point B of Article 14 ( 1 ) of white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from by Regulation (EEC) No 1579/86 (*), for the fixing of the application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ; import levy on the products falling within subheading 17.02 B II of the Common Customs Tariff, and the vari­ able element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter, being Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No equal to one hundred times the basic import levy appli­ 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­ cable as from the first of each month in the case of the tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ; the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per percentage point of sucrose content ;

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to should be calculated on the following basis : one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of the month preceding the month for which the basic — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy tion to each other at any given moment within a band applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the basic amount must be substituted for the average of the of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ that average ; tion (EEC) No 1676/85 0,

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 25, 28 . 1 . 1987, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6. 1968 , p. 42. («) OJ No L 139, 24. 5. 1986, p. 29 . 4) OJ No L 171 , 28 . 6. 1978, p. 34. 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6 . 1985, 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 rela­ Article 1 tion to the Community currencies referred to in the The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; (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 Regulation, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1987.

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

Done at Brussels, 27 May 1987.

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 27 May 1987 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 and per 100 kg net No 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 0,5195 D. Other sugars and syrups (other than lactose, glucose and malto-dextrine) : I, Isoglucose 61,62 ex II . Other 0,5195

0,5195 — > E. Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey

F. I. Caramelized sugar and molasses containing, in the dry — state, 50 % or more by weight of sucrose 0,5195

21.07 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included :

F. Flavoured or coloured sugar syrups : 61,62 III. Isoglucose IV. Other 0,5195