CELEX: 31974R2346
Language: en
Date: 1974-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2346/74 of the Commission of 13 September 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

14. 9 . 74                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 251 /5
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2346/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 13 September 1974
                                            fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
COMMUNITIES,                                                           No 1132/74 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                  Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (•) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     to be considered respectively as import levy and
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­                production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
lation (EEC) No 1996/74 (2) ;                                          tion refund for the product in question respectively,
                                                                       minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 11 32/74 (3) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in               Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular Article 7             whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
(2) thereof ;                                                         (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
Committee ;                                                            account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
products falling within subheadings 1 1 .08 A, 11 .09,                 levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 17.02 B II, 17.05B and 23.03 A I of the Common                       — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                           relation to each other, at any given moment,
and common wheat on the one hand, and for broken
                                                                            within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-20 and                         based on their effective parity ;
 10-20 units of account ;
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 981 /74 (4), as                     — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2267/74 (5), the                             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is                  in the previous subparagraph ;
introduced when it is found that the import levy for
maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of                   Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                    to the world market price of maize, common wheat
tion refund valid in the current month and that the                    and broken rice and to the import levies that an
average       of      the       levies       in     the    imme­       export levy should be introduced for the products
                                                                       listed in the Annex,
diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                                           Article 1
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the               The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                     lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                    the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                     listed therein .
cients relating to these products shown in column 4
of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (7) ;                                              Article 2
Whereas the production refund on maize, common
wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture                     This Regulation shall enter into force on              14
                                                                       September 1974.
(!) OJ  No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ  No   L 209, 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 .                               It shall apply from 14 September 1974 for starch
(3) OJ  No   L 128, 10. 5. 1974, p. 24.                                products derived from maize, from 16 September
(4) OJ  No   L 207 , 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .                              1974 for starch products derived from soft wheat, and
(5) OJ  No   L 239 , 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 53 .
(6) OJ  No   L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .                            from 17 September 1974 for starch products derived
(7) OJ  No   L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30 .                              from broken rice .
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                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 13 September 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                                                8-382           8-382             8-382          8-382
11.08 A IV           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                                         15-240         15-240             15-240         15-240
11.09 B              Wheat gluten, other than dried                             15-240         15-240             15-240         15-240
17.02 B II a)        Glucose other than glucose containing, in the
                     dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the pure
                     product, in the form of white crystalline pow­
                     der, whether or not agglomerated (*)                        5-166           5-166             5-166          5-166
17.02 B II b)        Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                     the dry state, 99 e/o 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 °/o 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 .