CELEX: 31997R1575
Language: en
Date: 1997-08-04 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1575/97 of 4 August 1997 amending the export taxes on cereal products

5. 8. 97               I EN I              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 211 /43
                                            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1575/97
                                                            of 4 August 1997
                                            amending the export taxes on cereal products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            validity has already been limited as a precautionary
                                                                         measure to 30 days in order to restrict quantities; whereas
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  it is not necessary to penalise these licences;
  Community,
                                                                         Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 120/89 (^ as
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92                   last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2194/96 (6), and in
  of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the                      particular Article 3 thereof, is applicable;
  market in cereals ('), as last amended by Commission
  Regulation (EC) No 923/96 (2), and in particular Article 16            Whereas, in the light of recent market and exchange-rate
  thereof,
                                                                         developments, an immediate increase in the export levy is
                                                                         the most appropriate way of preventing disturbance of the
  Whereas Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1766/92                       market,
  provides that where quotations or prices on the world
  market for certain products reach the level of Community
  prices and such situation is likely to continue and deteri­
 orate thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb the
 Community market, appropriate measures may be taken;                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
 whereas Article 15 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
  1501 /95 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
  1259/97 (4), provides that where such conditions are met,                                      Article 1
 an export tax may be fixed and may vary according to the
 destination;
                                                                         1.    The export tax referred to in Article 15 of Regula­
 Whereas prices on the world market for common wheat                    tion (EC) No 1501 /95 is fixed at the level set out in the
 and durum wheat have reached the level of those in the                 Annex to this Regulation .
 Community; whereas this situation is likely to lead to an
 excessive export of common wheat, of durum wheat, flour                2. This tax shall not apply, however, to export licences
 of common wheat, flour of durum wheat, flour of meslin,                applied for before 1 August 1997.
 groats and meal of common wheat and groats and meal of
 durum wheat from the Community; whereas it has there­                  3.     Commission Regulation (EC) No 1551 /97 O is
 fore been decided to apply an export tax to these products             repealed.
 at a level adapted to the current situation on the world
 market and which will avoid disturbance to the Com­
 munity market;
                                                                                                 Article 2
 Whereas export licences applied for before 1 August 1997
 for these products are still currently valid; whereas their            This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 August 1997.
                      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                      States .
                      Done at Brussels, 4 August 1997.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                Monika WULF-MATHIES
                                                                              Member of the Commission
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                                                 ANNEX
                    CN code                              Level of export tax
                                                           in ECU/ tonne
                  1001 10 00                                    10,00
                  1001 90 99                                     3,00
                  1101 00 11                                    15,00
                  1101 00 15                                     4,00
                  1101 00 90                                     4,00
                  1103 11 10                                   15,00
                  1103 11 90                                     4,00