CELEX: 31975R0429
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 429/75 of the Commission of 21 February 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

22. 2. 75                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 48 / 5
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 429/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 21 February 1975
                                       fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (9), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                      last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 ( l0) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             Whereas the production refund on maize, common
Economic Community ;                                              wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                       of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
67/EEC ( 1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­               No 1132/74 ;
tion, of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;                                      Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                       No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts
67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                to be considered respectively as import levy and
tion of the market in rice, aS last amended by Regula­            production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ;                                     tion refund for the product in question respectively,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in            Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation               whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
(EEC) No 251 8/74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2)            (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
thereof ;                                                         increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
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 8-745 and              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
10-907 units of account ;                                               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 28 1 /75 (8), 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
                                                                  listed in the Annex,
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average       of     the • levies       in     the    imme­       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of
                                                                                             Article 1
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;                             The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of              lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
basic product, to the difference between the produc­              the table annexed to this Regulation for the products
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy            listed therein .
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                                           Article 2
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for               This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 February
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                 1 975 .
cients relating to these products shown in column 4
                                                                  It shall apply from 22 February 1975 for starch
(•) OJ  No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                         products derived from maize, from 24 February 1975
(2) OJ  No  L 11 , 16 1 . 1975, p. 1 .                             for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
(3) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                             25 February 1975 for starch products derived from
(4) OJ  No  L 128, 10. 5. 1974, p. 20.                            broken rice .
(5) OJ  No  L 128, 10. 5. 1974, p. 24.
(6) OJ  No  L 270, 5. 10. 1974, p. 1 .
(7) OJ  No  L 207, 29. 7. 1974, p. 9.                             O OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968, p. 8 .
(8) OJ  No  L 31 , 5. 2. 1975, p. 15.                             ( 10) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
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No L 48/6                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                       22. 2. 75
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 21 February 1975 .
                                                                                 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                                              2.140          2.096              1.729         2.140
 11.08 A II         Rice starch                                               5.563          5.563             5-563         5-563
 11.08 A III        Wheat starch                                              5.020          5.020              3.986         5 - 020
 11.08 A IV         Potato starch                                             2-140          2-096              1.729         2-140
 11.08 A V          Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                             2.140          2.096              1.729         2-140
 11.09 A            Dried wheat gluten                                        9.128          9-128              7.248         9.128
 11.09 B            Wheat gluten, other than dried                            9.128          9.128              7.248         9.128
 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 (*)                      2-791          2-734              2-255         2-791
 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 (x)                                          2-140          2-096              1.729         2-140
 17.05 B I         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                              2-791          2-734             2-255          2-791
17.05 B II         Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                   than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                    whether or not agglomerated                               2.140          2.096              1.729        2.140
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                           2-658          2-604             2-148         2-658
() 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.                                                                                      /  re