CELEX: 31974R2700
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2700/74 of the Commission of 25 October 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

26. 10. 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 289 / 5
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2700/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 25 October 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 (j) 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 0 ;                                           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 11 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 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 8-20 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 26 October
                                                                      1974 .
(')  OJ No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .                        It shall apply from 26 October 1974 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 28 October 1 974
 •») OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                           for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
 5)  OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 24.                             29 October 1 974 for starch products derived from
 6)  OJ No   L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .                            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, 25 October 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                                               8-624           8-624               8-624         8-624
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                                        15-680          15-680            15-680          15-680
11.09 B              Wheat gluten, other than dried                            15-680          15-680            15-680          15-680
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 % or more by weight of the
                     pure product, other than glucose in the form
                     of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated i1 )                                          3-961           3-961              3-561          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 % by weight                           4-920           4-920               4-920         4-920
(*) 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 .