CELEX: 31974R3216
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3216/74 of the Commission of 20 December 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

21 . 12. 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 342/9
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3216/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 20 December 1974
                                            fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas the production refund on maize, common
COMMUNITIES,                                                          wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
Economic Community ;                                                   No 1132/74 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­                No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts
lation (EEC) No 1996/74 (2) ;                                          to be considered respectively as import levy and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                            production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                     tion refund for the product in question respectively,
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­                 minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
 11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in               whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular Article 7             (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
                                                                       increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
(2) thereof ; '
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
Committee ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09,                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 1 7.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                           within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
and common wheat on the one hand, and for broken                            based on their effective parity ;
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-20 and                   — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 10-20 units of account ;                                                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 (6), as                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2267/74 (7), the                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                        in the previous subparagraph ;
tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas
Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is            Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
introduced when it is found that the import levy for                   to the world market price of maize, common wheat
maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of                  and broken rice and to the import levies that an
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                    export levy should be introduced for the products
tion refund valid in the current month and that the                    listed in the Annex,
average       of      the       levies       in     the    imme­
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;                                                          Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                  The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                 lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the               the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                     listed therein .
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
                                                                                               Article 2
cients relating to these products shown in column 4
of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as
last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;                    This      Regulation  shall  enter into    force  on   21
                                                                       December 1974.
(')  OJ  No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67.                          It shall apply from 21 December 1974 for starch
(2 ) OJ No   L 209, 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No   174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                                products derived from maize, from 23 December 1974
(4)  OJ  No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                            for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
(5 ) OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24.                             24 December 1974 for starch products derived from
(»)  OJ No   L 207, 29 . 7. 1974, p. ?.                                broken rice .
( 7) OJ No   L 239 , 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 53 .
(8)  OJ No   L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .
(9)  OJ No   L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 20 December 1974.
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                     P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                             Expon levies in u.a./100 kg
      CCT
   heading No                   Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                       Other Member
                                                                             Denmark          Ireland     United Kingdom      States
11.08 A I           Maize starch                                              4-315            4-315            4-315        4-315
11.08 A ll          Rice starch                                               5-563            5-563            5-563        5-563
11.08 AIII          Wheat starch                                              9-251            9-251            9-251        9-251
11.08 AIV           Potato starch                                             4-315            4-315            4-315        4-315
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                             4-315            4-315            4-315        4-315
11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                       16-820          16-820            16-820        16-820
11.09 B             Wheat gluten,, other than dried                          16-820          16-820            16*820        16-820
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 (1)                      5-628            5-628            5-628        5-628
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 (')                                          4-315            4-315            4-315         4-315
17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                              5-628            5-628            5-628         5-628
17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                  . whether or not agglomerated                               4-3 15           4-315            4-315         4-315
23.03 A I           Residues from the manufacture of starch from
                    maize (êxcluding concentrated steeping liquors),
                    of a protein content, calculated on the dry
                    product exceeding 40 °/o by weight                        5-360            5-360            5-360         5-360
(') Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC, the product falling within subheading 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling
    within subheading 17.02 B II .