CELEX: 31974R2867
Language: en
Date: 1974-11-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2867/74 of the Commission of 15 November 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

16. 11 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 306/5
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2867/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 15 November 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 1 1 .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                — 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              16
                                                                   November 1974.
(i) OJ  No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                         It shall   apply from 16 November 1.974 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 18 November
(4) OJ  No  L 128, 10. 5. 1974, p. 20.                              1974 for   starch products derived from soft wheat, and
(5) OJ  No  L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 24.                           from 19     November 1974 for starch products derived
(6) OJ  No  L 207, 29 . 7. 1974, p. 9 .                            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, 15 November 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                                                4-138            4-138              4-138         4-138
11.08 A II          Rice starch                                                 5-563            5-563              5-563         5-563
11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                                9-009            9-009              9-009         9-009
11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                               4-138            4-138              4-138         4-138
11.08 A V            Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                              4-138            4-138              4-138         4-138
11.09 A              Dried wheat gluten                                        16-380          16-380            16-380          16-380
11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                             16-380          16-380            16-380          16-380
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 H                         5-397            5-397              5-397         5-397
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 H                                             4-138            4-138              4-138         4-138
17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                               5-397            5-397              5-397         5-397
17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                4-138            4-138              4-138         4-138
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                           5-140            5-140              5-140         5-140
(*) 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 .