CELEX: 31978R1208
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-03 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1208/78 of 2 June 1978 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice

No L 147/32                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              3 . 6 . 78
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1208 /78
                                                          of 2 June 1978
                         fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         cients relating to these products shown in column 4
                                                                     of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2744/75 (6), as
                                                                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (7) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
                                                                     Whereas the production refund on broken rice
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         intended for the manufacture of starch is defined in
 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                    Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2742/75 ;
tion of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 11 26/78 (2),
                                                                     Whereas the export levy must be fixed once per
                                                                     week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         Article 1 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75
2742/75 of 29 October 1975 on production refunds in                  entails an increase or a reduction of more than 0-8
the cereals and rice sectors (3), as last amended by                 unit of account per tonne of basic product ;
Regulation (EEC) No 11 27/78 (4), and in particular
Article 6 (2) thereof,
                                                                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee,
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
No 2742/75, an export levy may be introduced for
                                                                         within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
                                                                         based on their effective parity ;
products falling within subheading 11.08 A II of the
Common Customs Tariff when world market prices
for broken rice exceed the threshold prices less the                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on th(
production refund ;                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, ir
                                                                         relation to the Community currencies referred tc
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 (5), the                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­
tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas
Article 1 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is          Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
introduced when it is found that the import levy for                 to the world market price of broken rice and to the
broken rice is at least three units of account per tonne             import levies that an export levy should be introducec
less than the amount of the production refund valid                  for the product listed in the Annex,
in the current month and that the average of the
levies in the immediately following fortnight is at
least three units of account per tonne less than the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
average of the production refund valid in that fort­
night ;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per tonne of                 The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                lation (EEC) No 2742/75 are hereby fixed as shown in
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy              the table annexed to this Regulation for the product
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the            listed therein .
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                                            Article 2
(>)  OJ No L    166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 June 1978
(2)  OJ No L    142, 30 . 5 . 1978 , p. 23 .
(3)  OJ No L   281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 57 .
(4 ) OJ No L    142, 30 . 5 . 1978 , p. 24.                         (6) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 65 .
(5)  OJ No L   203 , 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7 .                           (7) OJ No L 303 , 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 2 June 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President
                                                 ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 2 June 1978 fixing the export levies on starch products
                                           manufactured from rice
                                                                                                 (u.a./tonne)
                     CCT
                   heading                        Description                        Export levy
                      No
          11.08 A II               Rice starch                                         20 1 1