CELEX: 31975R0117
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 117/75 of the Commission of 17 January 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

18 . 1 . 75                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 13 / 5
                                    REGULATION (EEC) No 117/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 17 January 1975
                                               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)
                                                                          No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts
   tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
   lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;                                            to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                          production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
   Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                            tion refund for the product in question respectively,
   67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                     minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
  tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­
  tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ;                                           Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
   11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in                 (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
  the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation                     increase or a reduction of more than 0*08 unit of
  (EEC) No 251 8/74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2)                  account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
  thereof ;
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
  Committee ;                                                             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
  No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
  products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09,                         within a band of 2*25 % , at a rate of exchange
  17.02 B II , 17.05B and 23.03 A I of the Common                             based on their effective parity ;
  Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
  and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken
                                                                              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
  rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8*745 and                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
  10*907 units of account ;
                                                                              relation to the Community currencies referred to
  Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last                     in the previous subparagraph ;
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74, the
  Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                   Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
  tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas                   to the world market price of maize, common wheat
  Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is             and broken rice and to the import levies that an
  introduced when it is found that the import levy for                   export levy should be introduced for the products
  maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0*30 unit of                   listed in the Annex,
  account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­
  tion refund valid in the current month and that the                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  average        of      the       levies       in     the   imme­
  diately following fortnight is at least 0*30 unit of                                           Article 1
  account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
  :ion refund valid in that fortnight ;                                  The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
  Whereas the export levy must be equal , per 100 kg of                  lation ( EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 basic product, to the difference between the produc­                    the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                  listed therein .
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
 seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                                                 Article 2
 whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
 cients relating to these products shown in column 4                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 January
                                                                         1 975 .
 of the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 1052/68 (s), as
 last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;                      It shall apply from 18 January 1975 for starch
                                                                         products derived from maize, from 20 January 1 975
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 1 1 , 1 6 1 . 1 975, p. 1 .                                  for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
  3) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                                    21 January 1975 for starch products derived from
(4) OJ No L 128, 10. 5. 1974, p. 20.                                     broken rice .
(5 ) OJ   No   L  128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24 .
(6)   OJ   No  L  270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
( 7) OJ    No  L  207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .
(s)  OJ    No  L  179, 25 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
H    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, 17 January 1975.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                 Member of the Commission
                                                                       ANNEX
                 \                                                                              Export levies in u.a. /lOO kg
       CCT
   heading No                       Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                        Other Member
                                                                                 Denmark         Ireland      United Kingdom      States
 11.08 A I           Maize starch                                                 3.756          3-499        ,    3.499          3.756
 11.08 All           Rice starch                                                  5.563          5-563             5.563         5.563
 11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                                 7-242          7.357             6-382         7-377
 11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                                3-756          3.499             3.499         3.756
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                                3-756          3.499             3.499         3.756
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                          13-168         13-376            11.604        13-412
 11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                              13.168         13-376            11.604        13-412
 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 (')                         4-899          4.563             4-563         4-899
 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 ( 1 )                                           3.756          3-499             3-499         3-756
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                                 4-899          4-563             4.563         4-899
 17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                                  3-756          3.499             3-499         3-756
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                           4-666          4-346             4-346         4-666
() within
   Pursuantsubheading
              to Regulation   No 189/66/EEC, the product falling within subheading 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling°
                       17.02 B II .