31988R1501

No L 135/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 1 . 6 . 88

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1501 /88

of 31 May 1988

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 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 by Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European at least 0,73 ECU from the average referred to above or Economic Community, 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 Act of Accession of Spain and equal to one-hundredth of the levy on white sugar used to Portugal, calculate the alteration :

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 of 30 June 1981 on the common organization of the Whereas the basic amount thus fixed must be adjusted on markets in the sugar sector ('), as last amended by Regula­ the basis of variations in the threshold price for white tion (EEC) No 3993/87 (2), and in particular Article 16 (8) sugar occurring between the month in which the basic thereof, 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 1 6 (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 3989/87 (®), for the fixing of the application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ; import levy on the products falling within subheadings 1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99 , 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50 of the Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No combined nomenclature, and the variable element, per 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­ 1 00 kilograms of dry matter, being equal to one .hundred tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation times the basic import levy applicable as from the first of (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of each month in the case of the products listed in Article 1 the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 ; whereas the levy percentage point of sucrose content ; must be fixed each month :

Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of should be calculated on the following basis : 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 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ basic amount must be substituted for the average of the tion to each other at any given moment within a band levies, where that levy differs by at least 0,73 ECU from of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central that average ; rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­ Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; tion (EEC) No 1676/85 f), as last amended by Regula­ whereas it must, however, be altered during the period tion (EEC) No 1 636/87 (8),

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. 0 OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 . (2) OJ No 1 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 23 . (6) OJ No L 377, 31 . 12. 1987, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968 , p. 42. 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . n OT No L 171 . 28 . 6. 1978 . d . 34 . 8 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 previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; 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 Regulation, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1988 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 May 1988 .

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 May 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 0,4838 1702 20 90 0,4838 1702 30 10 58,05 1702 40 10 58,05 1702 60 10 58,05 1702 60 90 0,4838 1702 90 30 58,05 ' 1702 90 60 . 0,4838 1702 90 71 0,4838 1702 90 90 0,4838 2106 9030 58,05 2106 90 59 0,4838