CELEX: 31973R3247
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3247/73 of the Commission of 30 November 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 331 / 30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 12 . 73
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 3247/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 30 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 (!) 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 (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
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 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,                    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
of account ;
                                                                      account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
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,
P)   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 .
b) OJ No L 38, 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                                    (8) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
 ---pagebreak---  1 . 12 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 331 /31
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                      Article 2
                              Article 1
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
 lation No 371 /67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                     1973 . It shall apply from 1 December 1973 for starch
 the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                   products derived from maize and from 3 December
 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, 30 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 AI             Maize starch                                                 5-530                5-530                      5-530
11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                                10-562               10-562                    10-562
11.08 A IV           Potato starch                                                5-530                5-530                      5-530
11.08 A V            Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                                5-530                5-530                     5-530
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 % or more by weight of the pure
                     product, in the form of white crystalline pow­
                     der, whether or not agglomerated (*)                         7-214                7-214                     7-214
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 H                                               5-530                5-530                     5-530
17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                                 7-214                7-214                     7-214
17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup , other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                  5-530                5-530                     5-530
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                           6-870                6-870                    6-870
(*) 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 .