CELEX: 31973R0676
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 676/73 of the Commission of 9 March 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 65 / 14                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             10 . 3 . 73
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 676/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 9 March 1973
                                          fixing the export levies on starch products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      comes into force ; whereas this difference must then
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
                                                                     icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                  shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
 pean Economic Community;                                            (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (9) ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                   mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession              and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
 of new Member States to the European Economic                       No 371/67/EEC ;
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;
                                                                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 ( a) of Regulation
                                                                     (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/                      amounts to be considered respectively as import
 EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and                   levy and production refund in accordance with the
 quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
 179/73 (5), and in particular the last sentence of                  duction refund for the product in question respec­
Article 2 (2) thereof;                                               tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
 Having regard to ifhe Opinion of the Monetary                      Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
 Committee ;
                                                                    week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
                                                                    Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation                   entails an increase or a reduction of more than
 No 371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced                    0-08 unit of account/ 100 kg of basic product;
 for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03            levies should be calculated on the basis of an
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­
                                                                    exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80                    which are floating or whose central rate differs from
units of account ;                                                  the official parity, on the effective rate or the
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of                      central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
26 July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
347/73 (7), the Commission laid down detailed                       on 13 February 1973 ;
rules for the application of the export levy on                     Whereas it follows from -applying all these provi­
starch products; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­              sions to the world market price of maize and com­
lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is                mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                 levy should be introduced for the products listed
account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                  in the Annex;
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following
fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
less than the average of the production refund valid
in that fortnight;                                                                           Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg                  The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of
of basic product, to the difference between the pro­               Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as
duction refund valid on the day on which this                      shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for
pxport levy is fixed and the average of the levies                 the products listed therein .
applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
                                                                                             Article 2
(J) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                               This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 March
(3)  OJ No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .                            1973 .
(4)  OJ No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 40.
(5)  OJ No   L 25, 30. 1 . 1973 , p. 6.
( 6) OJ No   L 168, 27.7. 1971 , p. 11 .                           (8) OJ No L 179, 25 . 7. 1968, p. 8 .
(7)  OJ No   L 38 , 10. 2. 1973 , p. 17.                           ( ° ) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 1971, p. 15 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 9 March 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                          The President
                                                                                    Francois- Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                 ANNEX
                                                                                                          Export levies
                 CCT heading No '                       Nomenclature in simplified wording               in u. a. ,' 100 kg
            11.08 AI                         Maize starch
            11.08 AIII                       Wheat starch                                                    0-966
            11.08 A IV                       Potato starch                                                      —
            11.08 A V                        Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                             potato starch
             11.09 A                         Dried wheat gluten                                              1-756
            11.09 B                          Wheat gluten, other than dried                                  1-756
            17.02 B II a)                    Glucose other than glucose containing, in the
                                             dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the pure
                                             product, in the form of white crystalline pow­
                                             der, whether or not agglomerated H
            17.02 B II b )                   Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                                             the dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the
                                             pure product, other than glucose in the form
                                             of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                              agglomerated (')
            17.05 B I                        Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                             white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                             agglomerated
            17.05 B II                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                              than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                             whether or not agglomerated
            23.03 A I                        Residues from the manufacture of starch from
                                             maize (excluding concentrated steeping liquors),
                                             of a protein content, calculated on the dry
                                             product exceeding 40 %> by weight                                  —
            (') Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC, the product falling within subheading No 17.02 B I is subject to the
                same levy as products falling within subheading No 17.02 B II.