CELEX: 31973R1894
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1894/73 of the Commission of 13 July 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 193 / 14                        Official Journal of the European Communities                            14. 7. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1894/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 13 July 1973
                                      fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg
COMMUNITIES,                                                    of basic product, to the difference between the pro­
                                                                duction refund valid on the day on which this
                                                                export levy is fixed and the average of the levies
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­              applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
pean Economic Community;                                        comes into force, whereas this difference must then
                                                                be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67                   icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by               (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
the Act (') annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession          tion (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;
of new Member States to the European Economic
Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                   Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                 mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
                                                                and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /67/                 No 371 /67/EEC;
EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and
quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No               Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
179 /73 (8) } and in particular the last sentence of            (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
Article 2 (2) thereof;                                           amounts to be considered respectively as import
                                                                levy and production refund in accordance with the
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
Committee ;                                                      duction refund for the product in question respec­
                                                                tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation
No 371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced                  Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
 for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08              week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03         Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­                 entails an increase or a reduction of more than
ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6·80                 0 08 unit of account/100 kg of basic product;
units of account ;
                                                                 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of                  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 26 July 1971, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 347/73 (7), the Commission laid down detailed                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
 rules for the application of the export levy on                     within a band of 2·25 % , at rate of exchange
 starch products; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­              based on their effective parity ;
 lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is
 found that the import levy is at least 0·30 unit of             — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
 account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                  the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
 tion refund valid in the current month and that the                 each of these currencies recorded for a given
 average of the levies in the immediately following                  period, in relation to the Community currencies
 fortnight is at least 0·30 unit of account/100 kg                   referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 less than the average of the production refund valid
 in that fortnight;
                                                                 Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                 sions to the world market price of maize and com­
                                                                 mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
  (*) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                        levy should be introduced for the products listed
  (») OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                            in the Annex;
  (•) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.
  (4 OJ No 174, 31. 7. 1967, p. 40.
  (•) OJ No L 25, 30. 1. 1973, p. 6.
  (•) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971, p. 11 .                          (8) OJ No L 179, 25 . 7. 1968, p. 8.
  (') O No L 38, 10. 2 . 1973, p. 17.                            (•) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                       Article 2
                            Article 1
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of                         This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 July
Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                               1973 . It shall apply from 14 July 1973 for starch
shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                          products derived from maize and from 16 July 1973
the products listed therein.                                               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, 13 July 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                                       Export levies in u.a./100 kg
       CCT heading No                       Nomenclature in simplified wording                                   United             Other
                                                                                               Ireland
                                                                                                                Kingdom        Member States
11.08 A I                         Maize starch                                                  3·914            3·914             4,056
 11.08 A III                      Wheat starch                                                  4·976            5·060             4,976
11.08 A IV                        Potato starch                                                 3·914            3·914             4,056
11.08 A V                         Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                  potato starch                                                 3·914            3·914              4,056
 11.09 A                          Dried wheat gluten                                            9-048            9-200              9,048
 11.09 B                          Wheat gluten, other than dried                                9-048            9-200              9,048
 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 (')                          5·105            5·105              5,290
 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 (*)                                              3·914            3·914              4,056
 17.05 B I                        Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                  white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                  agglomerated                                                  5·105            5·105              5,290
 17.05 B II                       Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                   than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                   whether or not agglomerated                                  3·914            3·914              4,056
 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                            4·862            4·862              5,038
  0) 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 falliag
     within subheading No 17.02 B II .