CELEX: 31973R2506
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2506/73 of the Commission of 14 September 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 259/ 10                     Official Journal of the European Communities                                 15 . 9 . 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2506/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 14 September 1973
                                          fixing the export levies on starch products
    THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    duction refund valid on the day on which this
    COMMUNITIES,                                                     export levy is fixed and the average of the levies
                                                                     applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
                                                                     comes into force-, whereas this difference must then
    Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
    pean Economic Community ;                                        icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
                                                                     shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
    Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67                   (EEC) No 1052/68 (7 ), as last amended by Regula­
   EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  tion (EEC) No 881 /73 (8) ;
    tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by
    Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2) ;
                                                                     Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
                                                                     mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
   Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /67/                   and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
   EEC (8) fixing production refunds on starches and                 No 371 /67/EEC ;
   quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No
   179/73 (4), and in particular the last sentence of
   Article 2 (2) thereof;                                           Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
                                                                    (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
                                                                    amounts to be considered respectively as import
   Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                     levy and production refund in accordance with the
   Committee ;                                                      preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
                                                                    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
   for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08                Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
  A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03         week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
  A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­                  Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
  ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80                 entails an increase or a reduction of more than
  units of account ;                                               0 08 unit of account/ 100 kg of basic product;
  Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (5) of                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally ,
  26 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 fot the application of the export levy on                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
  starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­               relation to each other, at any given moment,
  lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is                   within a band of 2-25 % , at rate of exchange
  found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                   based on their effective parity ;
  account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­
 tion refund valid in the current month and that the              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
 average of the levies in the immediately following                     the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
 fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg                      each of these currencies recorded for a given
 less than the average of the production refund valid                  period, in relation to the Community currencies
 in that fortnight;                                                     referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
 Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg                Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
of basic product, to the difference between the pro­              sions to the world market price of maize and com­
                                                                  mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
                                                                  levy should be introduced for the products listed
(») OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                          in the Annex ;
(•) OJ No L 141 , 28. 5. 1973, p. 8.
(•) 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 .                            <T) OJ No L 179, 25 . 7. 1968, p. 8.
(•) OJ No L 38. 10. 2. 1973. p. 17.                              (8) OJ No L 86, 3 !. 3 . 1973 , p . 30.
 ---pagebreak---  15 . 9 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                             No L 259/ 11
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                        Article 2
                             Article 1
                                                                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 Septem­
 The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of                        ber 1973 . It shall apply from 15 September 1973 for
 Regulation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as                             starch products derived from maize and from 17 Sep­
 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                        tember 1973 for starch products derived from soft
 the products listed therein .                                             wheat.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 14 September 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                  Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                Export levies in u. a. / 100 kg
CCT heading Nt                 Nomenclature in simplified wording                                      United                       Other
                                                                                  Ireland
                                                                                                      Kingdom                   Member Stale·
11.08 AI            Maize starch                                                  3-185                3-185                       3,370
11.08 AHI           Wheat starch                                                 10-091               10-091                      10,091
11.08 AIV           Potato starch                                                 3-185                3-185                       3,370
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                                 3-185                3-185                       3,370
11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                           18-348              18-348                       18,348
11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                               18-348              18-348                       18,348
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 (*)                          4-154                4-154                       4,395
17.02 B II h )      Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                    the dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight or the
                    pure product, other than glucose in the form
                    of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated (!)                                              3-185                3-185                       3,370
17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                                  4-154                4-154                       4,395
17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                    whether or not agglomerated                                   3-185                3-185                       3,370
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 %> by weight                             3-956                3-956                       4,186
(•) Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC , the product falling within subheading No 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy is products falliaf
    within subheading No 17.02 B II .