CELEX: 31973R1974
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1974/73 of the Commission of 20 July 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 201 /20                           Official Journal of the European Communities                               21 . 7. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 1974/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 20 July 1973
                                           fixing the export levies on starch products
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg
  COMMUNITIES,                                                         of basic product, to the difference between the pro­
                                                                       duction refund valid on the day on which this
                                                                       export levy is fixed and the average of the levies
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                   applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
  pean Economic Community;                                             comes into force , whereas this difference must then
                                                                      be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67                       icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
  EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
  tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                   (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
  the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession              tion (EEC) No 881 /73 (B) ;
  of new Member States to the European Economic
  Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                       Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
  munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                     mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
                                                                      and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/                      No 371 /67/EEC;
  EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and
  quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a ) of Regulation
  I79 /73      aiK| jn particular the last sentence of               (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
  Article 2 (2) thereof;                                              amounts to be considered respectively as import
                                                                     levy and production refund in accordance with the
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
 Committee ;                                                         duction refund for the product in question respec­
                                                                     tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
  Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation
 No 371 /67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced                    Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
 for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08                   week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03             Article 2 (2) ( a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­                     entails an increase or a reduction of more than
 ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80                    0-08 unit of account/ 100 kg of basic product;
units of account ;
                                                                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 Whereas, by Regulation ( EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
26 July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
347/73 (7 ), the Commission laid down detailed                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
 rules for the application of the export levy or.                         within a band of 2-25 % , at rate of exchange
 starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­                  based on their effective parity ;
 lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is
 found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                — for other currencies , an exchange rate based on
account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                        the arithmetic mean of the spot marker rates of
tion refund valid in the current month and that the                       each of these currencies recorded for a given
average of the levies in the immediately following                       period, in relation to the Community currencies
fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg                         referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
less than the average of the production refund valid
in that fortnight;                                                  Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                    sions to the world market price of maize and com­
                                                                    mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
(') OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                             levy should be introduced for the products listed
(«)  OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                              in the Annex ;
(•)  OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5 .
(*)  OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40.
(•)  OJ  No  L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 6.
(•)  OJ  No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                           (8) OJ No L 179, 2.5 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
(') OJ No L 38 , 10 . 2 . 1973 , p. 17 .                            (•) OJ No L 86 , 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .
 ---pagebreak---  21 . 7. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 201 /21
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                        Article 2
                            Article 1
 The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 July
 Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                              1973 . It shall apply from 21 July 1973 for starch
 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                         products derived from maize and from 23 July 1973
the products listed therein .                                              for starch products derived from soft wheat.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member •
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 20 July 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                        The President
                                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                  ANNEX
                                                                                                       Export levies in u. a./100 kg
      CCT heading No                       Nomenclature in simplified wording                                    United              Other
                                                                                               Ireland
                                                                                                                Kingdom         Member States
11.08 A I                        Maize starch                                                  3-645             3-645              3,848
11.08 AIII                       Wheat starch                                                  5-775             5-702              5,775
11.08 A IV                       Potato starch                                                 3-645             3-645              3,848
11.08 A V                        Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                 potato starch                                                 3-645             3-645              3,848
11.09 A                          Dried wheat gluten                                           10-500           10-368              10,500
11.09 B                          Wheat gluten , other than dried                              10-500           10-368              10,500
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 (*)                         4-754             4-754              5,019
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 H                                               3-645             3-645              3,848
17.05 B I                        Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                 white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                 agglomerated                                                  4-754             4-754              5,019
17.05 B 11                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                  than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                  whether or not agglomerated                                  3-645             3-645              3,848
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                            4-528             4-528              4,780
(M Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/HEC , 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 .