CELEX: 31973R1659
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-23
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1659/73 of the Commission of 22 June 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

23 . 6 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 166/ 13
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1659/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 22 June 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
                                                                    icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67                      shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
 EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                  tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (») ;
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession
 of new Member States to the European Economic                      Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                      mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                    and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
                                                                   No 371/67/EEC ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/                    Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
 EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and                 (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
 quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 amounts to be considered respectively as import
179 /73        andj jn particular the last sentence of             levy and production refund in accordance with the
Article 2 (2) thereof;                                             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
                                                                   entails an increase or a reduction of more than
ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6.80
units of account ;                                                 0 08 unit of account/100 kg of basic product;
                                                                   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              Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
in that fortnight;                                                was requested ;
                                                                  Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                   sions to the world market price of maize and com­
H   OJ    No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                       mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
(■) OJ    No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                           levy should be introduced for the products listed
(») OJ    No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.                            in the Annex;
(*) 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.
(7) OJ No L 38, 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                               (•) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 1971, p. 15.
 ---pagebreak---  No L 166/ 14                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                              23 . 6 . 73
 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 23 June
 Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                               1973 . It shall apply from 23 June 1973 for starch
 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                         products derived from maize and from 25 June 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, 22 June 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                          Member States
                                                                                                                Kingdom
11.08 A I                          Maize starch                                                 3.954            3.954               4,506
11.08 A III                       Wheat starch                                                  5.225            5.225               5,225
11.08 A IV                        Potato starch                                                 3.954            3.954               4,506
11.08 A V                         Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                  potato starch                                                 3.954            3.954               4,506
11.09 A                           Dried wheat gluten                                           9.500             9.500               9,500
11.09 B                           "Wheat gluten, other than dried                               9.500            9.500               9,500
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 (*)                        5.158             5.158              5,878
17.02 B II b)                     Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                                  the dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the
                                  pure product, other than glucose in the form
                                  of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                   agglomerated (*)                                            3.954             3.954              4,506
17.05 B I                         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                  white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                  agglomerated                                                 5.158             5.158              5,878
17.05 B II                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                  than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                  whether or not agglomerated                                  3.954             3.954              4,506
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                           4.912             4.912              5,598
(') 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 .