CELEX: 31973R3115
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-17
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3115/73 of the Commission of 16 November 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 316/8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              17. 11 . 73
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 3115/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 16 November 1973
                                        fixing the export levies on starch products
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 (7), as
                                                                   last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (8) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (J) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­            whereas the production           refund on maize and
lation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2);                                       common       wheat  intended    for    the manufacture   of
                                                                   starch and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regula­
                                                                   tion No 371 /67/EEC :
Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /
67/EEC (3) fixing production refunds on starches and
quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
179/73 (4), and in particular the last sentence of                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                   No 1604/71 for the new Member States the amounts
Article 2 (2) thereof ;
                                                                   to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                   production refund in accordance with the preceding
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       Articles shall be the levy and the production refund
Committee ;                                                        for the product in question respectively, minus the
                                                                   applicable compensatory amount ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation No
371 /67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced for                  Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08 A I,                 whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I
of the Common Customs Tariff when world market
                                                                   (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 entails an
                                                                   increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80 units                 account/ 1 00 kg of basic product ;
of account ;
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (*) of 26                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
347/73 (6), the Commission laid down detailed rules
for the application of the export levy on starch
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation
provides that a levy is introduced when it is found                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                           within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                     based on their effective parity ;
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following fort­           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
night is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the average of the production refund valid in that fort­                of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
night ;                                                                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg 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 common
                                                                   wheat and to the import levies that an export levy
(') OJ  No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                           should be introduced for the products listed in the
(2) OJ  No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .                            Annex,
(3) OJ  No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40.
(«) OJ  No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 6.
(5) OJ  No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                           (7) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
(6) OJ  No L 38 , 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                              (8) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                      Article 2
                            Article 1
                                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 17
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­                 November 1973 . It shall apply from 17 November
lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                       1973 for starch products derived from maize and from
the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                    19 November 1973 for starch products derived from
listed therein .                                                         soft wheat.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 16 November 1973 .
                                                                                    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                                      United                    Other
                                                                                  Ireland
                                                                                                     Kingdom                 Member States
11.08 AI             Maize starch                                                 4-159               4-159                     4,265
11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                                10-562              10-562                   10,562
11.08 A IV           Potato starch                                                4-159               4Û59                      4,265
11.08 A V            Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                                4-159               4459                      4,265
11.09 A              Dried wheat gluten                                          19-204              19-204                    19,204
11.09 B              Wheat gluten , other than dried                             19-204              19-204                    19,204
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 i 1 )                       5-424               5-424                     ■j ,563
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 (*)                                             4-159               4-159                     4,265
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    ^agglomerated                                                 5-424               5-424                     5,563
 17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                  4-159               4-159                     4,265
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                             5-166               5-166                     5,298
(*) 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 .