CELEX: 31974R1748
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1748/74 of the Commission of 5 July 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

6 . 7. 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 183/7
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1748/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 5 July 1974
                                         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 ( l ) 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
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 1 1 .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
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,
(3) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40.
(«) OJ  No  L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973, p. 6.
0   OJ  No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                            (7) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968, p. 8 .
(6) OJ  No  L 38 , 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                              P>) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3. 1973, p. 30.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                         Article 2
                             Article 1
                                                                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 July 1974.
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­
lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                       It shall apply from 6 July 1974 for starch products
the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                    derived from maize and from 8 July 1974 for starch
listed therein .                                                         products derived from soft wheat.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 5 July 1974.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                              Export levies in u .a ./100 kg
      CCT
   tødmg No                    Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                            Other Memhier
                                                                               Denmark          Ireland     United Kingdom       States
11.08 AI            Maize starch                                                6,302             6-351             6-351        6,302
11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                                12,210          12-210            12-210        12,210
11.08 AIV           Potato starch                                               6,302             6-351             6-351        6,302
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                               6,302             6-351             6-351        6,302
11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                          22,200          22-200            22-200        22,200
11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                              22,200          22-200            22-200        22,200
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 (*)                         S,219            8-285              8-285       8,219
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 (')                                             6,302            6-351              6-351       6,302
17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the fortn of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                                8,219            8-285              8-285       8,219
17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                 6,302            6-351              6-351       6,302
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                          7,828            7-890              7-890       7,828
 (M Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC , the product falling within subheading No 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as nrodncta Mling
    within subheading No 17.02 B II .