CELEX: 31974R2527
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2527/74 of the Commission of 4 October 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 271 /20                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              5. 10 . 74
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 2527/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 4 October 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 (') 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 0 ;                                         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, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09 ,                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 17.02 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
 10-20 units of account ;                                           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          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
 diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
 tion refund valid in that fortnight ;
 Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of                                        Article 1
 basic product, to the difference between the produc­
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy              The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the            lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                  the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
 whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                 listed therein .
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
 cients relating to these products shown in column 4                                          Article 2
 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 5 October
                                                                      1974 .
 (>)  OJ No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67 .
 (2 ) OJ No  L 209 , 31 . 7 . 1974, p. 1 .
 (3 ) OJ No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .                              It shall apply from 5 October 1974 for starch products
  4)  OJ No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                           derived from maize , from 7 October 1974 for starch
  5)  OJ No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24.                            products derived from soft wheat, and from 8 October
  6)  OJ No  L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .                             1974 for starch products derived from 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, 4 October 1974.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                                Export 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                                                3-961           3-961             3-961          3-961
 11.08 A II          Rice starch                                                 5-563           5-563             5-563          5-563
11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                                 8-624           8-624             8-624          8-624
 11.08 AIV           Potato starch                                               3-961           3-961             3-961          3-961
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                               3-961           3-961             3-961          3-961
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                         15-680          15-680             15-680        15-680
11.09 B              Wheat gluten , other than dried                            15-680          15-680             15-680        15-680
17.02 B II a )       Glucose other than glucose containing, in the
                     dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the pure
                     product, 111 the form of white crystalline pow­
                     der, whether or not agglomerated ( χ )                      5-166          5-166              5-166         5-166
 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 (')                                            3-961          3-961              3-961         3-961
17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                               5-166            5-166             5-166         5-166
17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                 3-961          3-961              3-961         3-961
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                          4-920           4-920              4-920         4-920
(l) 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 .