31994R0735

No L 87/40 Official Journal of the European Communities 31 . 3 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 735/94 of 30 March 1994 fixing the import levies on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, at least ECU 0,73 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 Community, 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 (EC) No 1 33/94 (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 between these two threshold prices, must be deducted Whereas Article 16 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 from or added to the basic amount in the circumstances provides for charging a levy on imports of the products provided for in Article 7 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No listed in Article 1 (1 ) of that Regulation ; 837/68 :

Whereas the levy on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 must be calculated, Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1724/93 (*) where appropriate, at a standard rate on the basis of the lays down the prices and amounts fixed in ecus applicable sucrose content (including other sugars expressed as in the sugar sector for the 1993/94 marketing year as a sucrose) of the product concerned and of the levy on result of the monetary realignments during the 1992/93 white sugar ; whereas, however, the levies on maple sugar marketing year ; and maple syrup are limited to the amount resulting from application of the rate of duty bound within GATT ;

Whereas Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the levy on the products referred to in Article 1 837/68 of 28 June 1968 on detailed rules for the applica­ (1 ) (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 comprises, tion of levies on sugar (3), as last amended by Regulation under Article 16 (6) of that Regulation, a variable element and a fixed element, with the latter, per 100 kilograms of (EEC) No 1428/78 (4), provides that the basic amount of the levy for 100 kilograms of product must be fixed per dry matter, being equal to one-tenth of the fixed element percentage point of sucrose content ; established pursuant to point B of Article 11 (1 ) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 766/92 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2193/93 Q, for the fixing of the Whereas the basic amount of the levy must be equal to import levy on the products falling within CN codes 1702 30 91 , 1702 30 99, 1702 40 90 and 1702 90 50, and one-hundredth of the average of the levies applicable to the variable element, per 100 kilograms of dry matter, 100 kilograms of white sugar during the first 20 days of being equal to 100 times the basic import levy applicable the month preceding the month for which the basic as from the first of each month in the case of the amount of the levy is fixed ; whereas, however, the levy products listed in Article 1 (1 ) (d) of Regulation (EEC) No applicable to white sugar on the day of the fixing of the 1785/81 ; whereas the levy must be fixed each month ; basic amount must be substituted for the average of the levies, where that levy differs by at least ECU 0,73 from that average ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (1 ) of Council Decision Whereas the basic amount must be fixed each month ; 91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the whereas it must, however, be altered during the period overseas countries and territories with the European between the day on which it is fixed and the first day of Economic Community (8), no levies shall apply on the month following the month for which the basic imports of products originating in the overseas countries amount is applicable, if the levy on white sugar differs by and territories ;

(') OJ No L 177, 1 . 7. 1981 , p. 4. O OJ No L 159, 1 . 7. 1993, p. 127. (2) OJ No L 22, 27. 1 . 1994, p. 7. (4 OJ No L 181 , 1 . 7. 1992, p. 21 . 0 OJ No L 151 , 30. 6. 1968, p. 42. o OJ No L 196, 5. 8 . 1993, p. 22. O OJ No L 171 , 28. 6. 1978, p. 34. (8) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .

31 . 3 . 94 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 87/41

Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 ('), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 3528/93 (2), are used to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies Article 1 and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ; The import levies on the products listed in Article 1 (1 ) whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­ (d), (f) and (g) of Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 shall be as tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­ indicated in the Annex hereto. lation (EEC) No 1 068/93 (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 547/94 (4) ; Article 2 Whereas it follows from the application of these provi­ 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 April 1994.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 March 1994.

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1994 fixing the basic amount of the import levy on syrups and certain other products in the sugar sector

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

1702 20 10 0,3843 — 1702 20 90 0,3843 — 1702 30 10 — 48,10 1702 40 10 — 48,10 1702 60 10 — 48,10 1702 60 90 0,3843 — 1702 90 30 — 48,10 1702 90 60 0,3843 — 1702 90 71 0,3843 — 1702 90 90 0,3843 — 2106 90 30 — 48,10 2106 90 59 0,3843 —

(') No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 101 (1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC.

(') OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 320, 22. 12. 1993, p. 32. (3) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106. (4) OJ No L 69, 12. 3. 1994, p. 1 .