CELEX: 31974R3272
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3272/74 of the Commission of 27 December 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

28 . 12 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 349 / 31
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 3272/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 27 December 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 ( ! ) 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 1 996/74 (2) ;                                       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 1 1 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     28
                                                                     December 1 974 .
(')  OJ No    117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .                      It shall apply from 28 December 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 30 December 1974
(4)  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.                           31 December 1974 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 .
(»)  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, 27 December 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 AI            Maize starch                                               4-315            4-315             4-315           4-315
11.08 A II          Rice starch                                                5-563            5-563             5-563           5-563
11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                               9-251            9-251             9-251           9-251
11.08 AIV           Potato starch                                              4-315            4-315             4-315           4-315
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                              4-315            4-315              4-315          4-315
11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                        16-820          16-820              16-820         16-820
11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                            16-820          16-820              16-820         16-820
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 (')                       5-628            5-628              5-628          5-628
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 (*)                                           4-315            4-315              4-315          4-315
17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                               5-628            5-628              5-628          5-628
17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                    whether or not agglomerated                                4-315            4-315              4-315          4-315
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                           5-360            5-360              5-360          5-360
(*) 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 .