CELEX: 31973R1533
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1533/73 of the Commission of 8 June 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

9 . 6. 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 154/ 13
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1533/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 8 June 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
                                                                      icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67                        shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
 EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                      (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                   tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (9) ;
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession
 of new Member States to the European Economic                       Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                       mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                      and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
                                                                     No 371/67/EEC ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/                      Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
 EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and                   (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
 quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   amounts to be considered respectively as import
 179/73 /5) } an,d in particular the last sentence of                levy and production refund in accordance with the
 Article 2 (2) thereof;                                              preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
                                                                     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
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­                     Article 2 (2) ( a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
                                                                     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 on                          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 market 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                Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
in that fortnight;                                                  was requested ;
                                                                    Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                    sions to the world market price of maize and com­
(»)   OJ No  117, 19.6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
                                                                    mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
(»)   OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14 .                           levy should be introduced for the products listed
(«)   OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .                           in the Annex;
(«)   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, 25 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
,T) Ol No L 38 , 10. 2 . 1973 , p . 17.                             (») OJ No L 282, 23 . 12 . 1971 , p. 15.
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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 9 June
Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                                 1973 . It shall apply from 9 June 1973 for starch
shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                           products derived from maize and from 11 June 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, 8 June 1973 .
                                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                    ANNEX
                                                                                                         Export levies in u. a. / 100 kg
       CCT heading No                        Nomenclature ¡n simplified wording                                    United                Other
                                                                                                 Ireland                            Member States
                                                                                                                 Kingdom
11.08 A I                         Maize starch                                                   4-714             4-714                4,740
 11.08 A III                      Wheat starch                                                   4-954             4-937                4,954
11.08 AIV                         Potato starch                                                  4-714             4-714                4,740
11.08 A V                         Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                  potato starch                                                  4-714             4-714                4,740
 11.09 A                           Dried wheat gluten                                            9-008             8-976                9,008
 11.09 B                           Wheat gluten, other than dried                                9-008             8-976                9,008
 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 (*)                          6-149             6-149                 6,182
 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 (*)                                              4-714             4-714                 4,740
 17.05 B 1                         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                   white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                   agglomerated                                                   6-149            6-149                 6,182
 17.05 B 11                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                   than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                   whether or not agglomerated                                    4-714            4-714                 4,740
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                             5-856            5-856                5,888
 (J) 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 .