31988R0259

No L 26/31 30 . 1 . 88 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 259/88 of 29 January 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 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 must be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to Economic Community, calculate the alteration ; Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spairt and Portugal, Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on the basis of variations in the threshold price for white Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 sugar occurring between the month in which the basic of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the amount is fixed and the period of application ; whereas markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­ this adjustment, equal to one-hundredth of the difference tion (EEC) No 3993/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) between these two threshold prices, must be deducted thereof, from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 837/68 ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,

Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1 provides for charging a levy on imports of the products (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises, listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation ; under Article 1 6 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be. calculated, established pursuant to point B of Article 14 (1 ) of where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (*), as last amended sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as by Regulation (EEC) No 3989/87 (*), for the fixing of the sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on import levy on the products falling within subheadings white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar 1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50 of the and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from combined nomenclature, and the variable element, per application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ; 100 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one hundred times the basic import levy applicable as from the first of each month in the case of the products listed in Article 1 Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­ must be fixed each month ; tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 Q intro­ percentage point of sucrose content ; duces from 1 January 1988 a new combined nomencla­ ture meeting the requirements of both the Common Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to Customs Tariff and the Community's statistics of foreign one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to trade and replacing the previous nomenclature ; 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, however, the levy Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the should be calculated on the following basis : basic amount must be substituted for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ that average ; tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in whereas it must, however, be altered during the period the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­ the month following the month for which the basic tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (9), amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by 0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7 . 1981 , p. 4. («) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987. (2) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987. 0 OJ No L 256, 7. 9 . 1987, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 151 , 30 . 6 . 1968 , p. 42. (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . W ni Mr. T 171 78 6 1978 . n . 34 . 0 OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, 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 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 February 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 January 1988 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 January 1988 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

(ECU) Basic amount per percentage point CN code of sucrose content and per 100 kg net Amount of levy per 100 kg of dry matter of the product in question

1702 20 10 0,4837 1702 20 90 0,4837 1702 30 10 I 58,04 1702 40 10 \ 58,04 1702 60 10 ll 58,04 1702 60 90 0,4837 1702 90 30 II 58,04 1702 90 60 0,4837 l 1702 90 71 0,4837 1702 90 90 0,4837 2106 90 30 II 58,04 2106 90 59 0,4837