CELEX: 31973R0938
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 938/73 of the Commission of 6 April 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 91 / 8                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               7. 4. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 938/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 6 April 1973
                                         fixing the export levies on starch products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     comes into force-, whereas this difference must then
  COMMUNITIES,                                                      be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
                                                                    icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
 pean Economic Community;                                           (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (•) ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67
 EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    Whereas the production refund, on maize and com­
  tion of the market in cereals, . as last amended by               mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
  the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (8) on the Accession            and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
  of new Member States to the European Economic                     No 371/67/EEC;
  Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                    (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/                    amounts to be considered respectively as import
 EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and                  levy and production refund in accordance with the
  quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                 preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
 179/73 (5) } and in particular the last sentence of                duction refund for the product in question respec­
 Article 2 (2) thereof;                                             tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
 Committee ;
                                                                   week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
                                                                    Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation                   entails an increase or a reduction of more than
 No 371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced                   0 08 unit of account/100 kg of basic product;
 for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08                 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03            levies should be calculated on the basis of an
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­                    exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80                   which are floating or whose central rate differs from
units of account ;                                                 the official parity, on the effective rate or the
                                                                   central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (a) of
                                                                   the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
 26 July 1971, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 347/73 (7), the Commission laid down detailed
                                                                   on 13 February 1973 ;
 rules for the application of the export levy on                   Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
 starch products; whereas Article 2 (1 ) of that Regu­             sions to the world market price of maize and com­
 lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is              mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
 found that the import levy is at least 0*30 unit of               levy should be introduced for the products listed
 account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                in the Annex;
 tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following
 fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
less than the average of the production refund valid
in that fortnight;                                                                         Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg                 The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of
of basic product, to the difference between the pro­              Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as
duction refund valid on the day on which this                     shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for
export levy is fixed and the average of the levies                the products listed therein.
applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
                                                                                           Article 2
(*)  OJ No    117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(»)  OJ No   L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 April
(•)  OJ No   L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.                             1973.
(«)  OJ NP   174, 31. 7. 1967, p. 40.
(•)  OJ No   L 25, 30. 1. 1973, p. 6.
(•)  OJ No   L 168, 27. 7. 1971, p. 11 .                          («) OJ No L 179, 25 . 7. 1968, p. 8.
(T)  OJ No   L 38, 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                            (•) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 1971, p. 15.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
          Done at Brussels, 6 April 1973.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                               Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                             ANNEX
                                                                                                      Export levies
             CCT heading No                        Nomenclature in simplified wording                in u.a./100 kg
         11.08 A I                       Maize starch
         11.08 A III                    Wheat starch                                                     1-058
         11.08 A IV                     Potato starch                                                      —
         11.08 A V                      Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                        potato starch
         11.09 A                        Dried wheat gluten                                               1-924
         11.09 B                        Wheat gluten, other than dried                                   1-924
         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 f1)
         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)
         17.05 B I                      Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                        white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                        agglomerated
         17.05 B II                     Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                         than in the form of white crystalline powder,                       •
                                        whether or not agglomerated
         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                                  —
         O 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.