CELEX: 31973R2916
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2916/73 of the Commission of 26 October 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 299 / 12                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             27 . 10 . 73
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 2916/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 26 October 1973
                                         fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                   whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
                                                                    the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               cients relating to these products shown in column 4
Economic Community ;                                                of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (7), as
                                                                    last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 88 1 /73 (s) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­             Whereas the production refund on maize and
lation (EEC) No 1 346/73 (-) ;                                      common       wheat  intended    for the  manufacture     of
                                                                    starch and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regula­
                                                                    tion No 371 /67/ EEC ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /
67/EEC (3) fixing production refunds on starches and
quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1 79/73 (4), and in particular the last sentence of                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1604/71 for the new Member States the amounts
Article 2 (2) thereof ;
                                                                    to be considered respfectively as import levy and
                                                                    production refund in accordance with the preceding
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        Articles shall be the levy and the production refund
Committee ;                                                         for the product in question respectively, minus the
                                                                    applicable compensatory amount ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation No
371 /67/ EEC, an export levy may be introduced for
                                                                    Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08 A I,                  whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
III, IV and V, 1 1.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I
of the Common Customs Tariff when world market
                                                                    (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 entails an
                                                                    increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80 units                  account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
of account ;
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (5) of 26                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
347/73 (6), the Commission laid down detailed rules
for the application of the export levy on starch
                                                                    — in the ' case of currencies which are maintained in
products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation
provides that a levy is introduced when it is found                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                            within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                      based on their effective parity ;
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following fort­            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
night is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the average of the production refund valid in that fort­                 of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
night ;                                                                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy              to the world market price of maize and common
                                                                    wheat and to the import levies that an export levy
(') OJ  No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                          should be introduced for the products listed in the
(*) OJ  No  L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .                            Annex ;
(>) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40 .
(<) OJ  No  L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 6.
(5) OJ  No  L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                           (7) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968, p. 8 .
(*) OJ  No  L 38 , 10 . 2. 1973, p. 17.                             (8) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30.
 ---pagebreak---  27 . 10 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                      No L 299 / 1 3
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                      Artide 2
                              Article 1
 The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­                This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 October
 lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                      1973. It shall apply from 27 October 1973 for starch
 the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                   products derived from maize and from 29 October
 listed therein .                                                        1973 for starch products derived from soft wheat.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                  Done at Brussels, 26 October 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
                                         •
                                                                                                Export levies in u.a:/100 kg
 CCT heading Ni                 Nomenclature in simplified wording                                     United                    Other
                                                                                 Ireland
                                                                                                     Kingdom                 Member State«
 11.08 A i            Maize starch                                                 3-317                3-317                    3,450
 11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                               10-327               10-327                   10,327
 11.08 A IV           Potato starch                                               3-317                3-317                    3,450
 11.08 A V           Starches other than inaize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                                3-317                3-317                    3,450
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                          18-776               18-776                   18,776
 1,1.09 B            Wheat gluten, other than dried                              18-776               18-776                   18,776
 17.02 B II a )      Glucose other than glucose containing, in the
                     dry state, 99 % or more by weight of the pure
                     product, in the form of white crystalline pow­
                     der, whether or not agglomerated (1)                         4-326                4-326                    4,500
 17.02 B II h )      Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                     the dry state, 99 % or more by weight of the
                     pure product, other than glucose in the forni
                     of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated (')                                             3-317                3-317                    3,450
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                                  4-326                4-326                    4,500
 17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                  3-317                3-317                    3,450
2Ì.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                               4-120                4-120                    4,286
f1) 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 .