CELEX: 31975R0178
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 178/75 of the Commission of 24 January 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

25. 1 . 75                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 20/7
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 178/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 24 January 1975
                                         fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/ 68 (8), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Whereas the production refund on maize, common
Economic Community ;                                                wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  No 1132/ 74 ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;                                         Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1981 / 74 for the new Member States the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359 /
67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                  to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                    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 1129/74 (4) ;
                                                                    minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1132/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in              Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation                 whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
(EEC) No 2518 /74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2)              (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
thereof ;                                                           increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
Committee ;                                                         Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)              levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09 ,                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common                         within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                        based on their effective parity ;
and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken
                                                                    — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-745 and                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 10-907 units of account ;
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 (7), as last                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74, the                             in the previous subparagraph ;
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­
tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas                Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is          to the world market price of maize, common wheat
introduced when it is found that the import levy for                and broken rice and to the import levies that an
maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of                export levy should be introduced for the products
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                 listed in the Annex ,
tion refund valid in the current month and that the                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
average       of     the       levies      in    the    imme­
diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of                                          Article 1
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­                The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;                               lation ( EEC) No 1 132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of                the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                listed therein .
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the                                      Article 2
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 January
                                                                     1 975 .
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
cients relating to these products shown in column 4                 It shall apply from 25 January 1975 for starch
                                                                    products derived from maize, from 27 January 1975
(') OJ  No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.                         for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
(2) OJ  No  L 11 , 16 1 . 1975, p. 1 .                              28 January 1975 for starch products derived from
(3) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                              broken rice .
(4) OJ  No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .
(5) OJ  No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24.
(«) OJ  No  L 270, 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 179 , 25. 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .
(7) OJ  No  L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .                            (9 Of No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
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                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 24 January 1975.
                                                                                      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                                                            Other Member
                                                                                Denmark          Ireland      United Kingdom     States
  11.08 A I          Maize starch                                                 2-692          2-096              2-180        2-692
  11.08 All          Rice starch                                                  5-563          5-563             5-563         5-563
  11.08 A III        Wheat starch                                                 4-864          4-864             4-545         4-864
  11.08 A IV         Potato starch                                                2-692          2-096             2-180         2-692
  11.08 A V          Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                                2-692          2-096             2-180        2-692
  11.09 A            Dried wheat gluten                                           8-844          8-844             8-264         8-844
  11.09 B            Wheat gluten, other than dried                               8-844          8-844             8-264         8-844
 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 (*)                         3-511           2-734             2-843        3-511
 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 (*)                                             2-692          2-096              2-180        2-692
 17.05 B I          Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                                 3-511          2-734              2-843        3-511
 17.05 B II         Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                    whether or not agglomerated                                  2-692          2-096              2-180        2-692
 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                           3-344          2-604             2-708         3-344
                                    ■- -      ——
I1)
    withinsubheading 17.02B*II. 189/66/EEC> the product falling within subheading 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling