CELEX: 31975R2246
Language: en
Date: 1975-08-30
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2246/75 of the Commission of 29 August 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from cereals

No L 229 / 58                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                 30 . 8 . 75
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 2246/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 August 1975
                      fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from cereals
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                     whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
                                                                     the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               cients relating to these products shown in column 4
 Economic Community ;                                                of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (5), as
                                                                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 980/75 (6).
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                Whereas       the  production       refund on    maize and
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­             common       wheat  intended      for    the manufacture   of
 lation ( EEC) No 665/75 (2 ) ;                                      starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1955/ 75 ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1 955/75 (3 ) of 22 July 1975 on production refunds in
 the cereals and rice sectors and in particular Article 6           Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     No 2007/ 75 for the new Member States the amounts
 (2) thereof ;
                                                                     to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                     production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
                                                                    tion refund for the product in question respectively,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
 Committee ;
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC)             Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
 No 1955/75, an export levy may be introduced for                   whereas it is altered only if application of Article 1 (2)
 products falling within heading No 11.09 and                       (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2007/75 entails an
 subheadings 1 1.08 A, 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A             increase or a reduction of more than 0-8 unit of
 I of the Common Customs Tariff when world market                   account/ metric ton of basic product ;
 prices for maize and common wheat exceed the
 threshold prices less the production refund ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 Whereas by Regulation ( EEC) No 2007/75 (4) the
 Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­
 tion of an export levy on starches ; whereas Article 1             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
( 1 ) of this Regulation provides that a levy shall be                    relation to each other, at any given moment,
 introduced when it is found that the import levy on                      within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
 maize or common wheat is at least three units of                         based on their effective parity ;
account/ metric ton less than ' the amount of the
 production refund valid in the current month and that              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the average of the levies in the immediately following                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
fortnight is at least three units of account/ metric ton                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
less than the average of the production refund valid in                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
that fortnight ;                                                          in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per metric ton
of basic product, to the difference between the produc­             Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy              to the world market price of maize and to the import
                                                                    levies that an export levy should be introduced for the
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67 .                         product listed in the Annex,
(-) O'j No L 72, 20 .       1975, p. 14 .
( ; ) O'j No L 200, 31 . 7. 1975, p. 1 .                            (5 ) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .
(4 ) O") No L 203 , 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7.                             (6) OJ No L 95, 17 . 4. 1975, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- 30 . 8 . 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                       No L 229/59
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                            the table annexed to this Regulation for the product
                                                                         listed therein .
                              Article 1                                                            Article 2
The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­                This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 August
lation (EEC) No 1955/75 are hereby fixed as shown in                     1975 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 29 August 1975.
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                      P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
                 \                                                                           Export levies in u.a. / l 000 kg
       CCT
   heading No                    Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                             Other Member
                                                                               Denmark        Ireland       United Kingdom          States
11.08 A I            Maize starch                                               6-65           4-59                4-59             6-65
11.08 A IV           Potato starch                                              6-65            4-59               4-59             6-65
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                               6-65           4-59                4-59             6-65
17.02 B 11 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 (')                        8-67           5-99               5-99             8-67
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 (')                                           665             4-59               4-59             6-65
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    ^agglomerated                                                8-67           5-99               5-99              8-67
 17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                 6-65           4-59                4-59             6-65
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                            8-26           5-70               5-70              8-26
( ) 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 .