CELEX: 31973R1590
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1590/73 of the Commission of 15 June 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 159/8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               16. 6. 73
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1590/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 15 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 (8) ;
  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 (5), and in 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
(*)  OJ No    117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                        mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
C)   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.                                (9) OJ No L 282, 23. 12. 1971, p. 15.
 ---pagebreak---   16. 6 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                         No L 159/9
  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 16 June
  Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                              1973 . It shall apply from 16 June 1973 for starch
 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                          products derived from maize and from 18 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, 15 June 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                    François-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                                       Export levies in u.a./100 kg
        CCT heading No                      Nomenclature in simplified wording                                   United             Other
                                                                                               Ireland
                                                                                                               Kingdom         Member States
11.08 A I                         Maize starch                                                  4·196           4·196              4,358
11.08 A III                       Wheat starch                                                 4·629            4·605              4,629
11.08 A IV                        Potato starch                                                4·196            4·196              4,358
11.08 A V                         Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                  potato starch                                                4·196            4·196              4,358
11.09 A                           Dried wheat gluten                                            8·416           8·372              8,416
11.09 B                           Wheat gluten, other than dried                               8·416            8·372              8,416
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 (*)                        5·473            5·473              5,685
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 (*)                                            4·196            4·196              4,358
17.05 B I                         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                  white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                  agglomerated                                                 5·473            5·473             5,685
17.05 B II                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                  than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                  whether or not agglomerated                                  4·196            4·196             4,358
> 3.03 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                             5·212            5·212             5,414
0) 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 .