CELEX: 31975R3108
Language: en
Date: 1975-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3108/75 of the Commission of 28 November 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice

29 . 11 . 75                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 309/45
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 3108/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 28 November 1975
                      fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the production refund on broken rice
COMMUNITIES,                                                       intended for the manufacture of starch is defined in
                                                                   Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2742/75 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 2007/75 for the new Member States the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                        to be considered respectively as import levy and
67/ EEC ( ! ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­              production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­             tion refund for the product in question respectively,
tion (EEC) No 668 /75 (2) ;                                        minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
                                                                   Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   whereas it is altered only if application of Article 1 (2)
2742/75 (3) of 29 October 1975 on production refunds
in the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular                 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 entails an
                                                                   increase or a reduction of more than 0-8 unit of
Article 6 (2) thereof ;
                                                                   account/metric ton of basic product ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Committee ;
                                                                   levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC)             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
No 2742/75, an export levy may be introduced for                        relation to each other, at any given moment,
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A II of the                   within a band of 2 25 % , at a rate of exchange
Common Customs Tariff when world market prices                          based on their effective parity ;
for broken rice exceed the threshold prices less the
production refund ;                                                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 (4), the                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                    in the previous subparagraph ;
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 3 units of account/ metric ton
                                                                   import levies that an export levy should be introduced
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 3 units of account/ metric ton less than the
average of the production refund valid in that fort­
night ;                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per metric ton
of basic product, to the difference between the produc­                                    Article 1
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
                                                                   The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                   lation ( EEC) No 2742/75 are hereby fixed as shown in
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
                                                                   the table annexed to this Regulation for the product
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                 listed therein .
cients relating to these products shown in column 4
of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2744/75 (5) ;
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                                                        Article 2
(J ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 .
(3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 57.
Y) OJ No L 203, 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 30
(5 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 65 .                          November 1975 .
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              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 28 November 1975.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
                                                                                   Export levies in u.a./metric ton
      CCT
                            Nomenclature in simplified wording
   heading No                                                                                                       Other Member
                                                                      Denmark        Ireland        United Kingdom      States
11.08 All       Rice starch                                            18-70         18-70                18-70        16-43