CELEX: 31973R3182
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3182/73 of the Commission of 23 November 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 323/8 .                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 11 . 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3182/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 23 November 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 881 /73 (8) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (1) 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 1346/73 (2);                                       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
179/73 (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 respectively 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,
III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I
                                                                   whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
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
(2) OJ  No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .                            Annex,
(3) OJ  No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40.
(4) 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.                             («) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30.
 ---pagebreak--- 24. 11 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                        No L 323/9
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                       Article 2
                             Article 1
                                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 24
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­                 November 1973. It shall apply from 24 November
lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                       1973 for starch products derived from maize and from
the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                    26 November 1973 for starch products derived from
listed therein .                                                         soft wheat.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels , 23 November 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                               Export levies in u.a./100 kg
        CCT
     heading No                 Nomenclature in simplified wording                                      United                  Other
                                                                                   Ireland                                  Member States
                                                                                                      Kingdom
 11.08 A I            Maize starch                                                 5.266               5.266                   5,297
 11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                                10.562              10.562                  10,562
 11.08 A IV           Potato starch                                                 5.266              5.266                   5,297
 11.08 A V            Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                      potato starch                                                 5.266              5.266                   5,297
 11.09 A              Dried wheat gluten                                          19.204              19.204                  19,204
 11.09 B              Wheat gluten , other than dried                             19.204              19.204                  19,204
 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 (*)                          6.869              6.869                   6,909
 17.02 B II b)        Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                      the dry state, 99 % or more by weight of the
                      pure product, other than glucose in the form
                      of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                      agglomerated ( J )                                           5.266               5.266                   5,297
 17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                      white crystalline powder, whether or not
                      agglomerated                                                 6.869               6.869                   6,909
 17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                      than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                      whether or not agglomerated                                  5.266               5.266                   5,297
 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 °/o by weight                           6.542               6.542                   6,580
 (') 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 .