CELEX: 31975R2580
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2580/75 of the Commission of 10 October 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from cereals

No L 263/6                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             11 . 10 . 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2580/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 10 October 1975
                     fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from cereals
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 (5), as
                                                                    last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 980/75 (6).
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 Whereas the production refund on maize and
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­             common       wheat  intended     for the manufacture     of
 lation (EEC) No 665/75 (2) ;                                       starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1955/75 ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1 955/75 (3) of 22 July 1975 on production refunds in
the cereals and rice sectors and in particular Article 6           Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 2007/75 for the new Member States the amounts
(2) thereof ;
                                                                    to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                    production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
                                                                    tion refund for the product in question respectively,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
Committee ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC)             Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
 No 1955/75, an export levy may be introduced for                  whereas it is altered only if application of Article 1 (2)
products falling within heading No 1 1 .09 and                     (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 entails an
subheadings 11.08 A, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A                increase or a reduction of more than 0-8 unit of
I of the Common Customs Tariff when world market                   account/metric ton of basic product ;
prices for maize and common wheat exceed the
threshold prices less the production refund ;
                                                                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                   levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 (4) the
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­
tion of an export levy on starches ; whereas Article 1             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
( 1 ) of this Regulation provides that a levy shall be                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
introduced when it is found that the import levy on                      within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
maize or common wheat is at least three units of                         based on their effective parity ;
account/metric ton less than the amount of the
production refund valid in the current month and that              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
the average of the levies in the immediately following                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
fortnight is at least three units of account/metric ton                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
less than the average of the production refund valid in                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
that fortnight ;                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per metric ton
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 common wheat and to
                                                                   the import levies that an export levy should be intro­
(')  OJ  No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                         duced for the product listed in the Annex,
(2)  OJ  No  L 72, 20. 3 . 1975, p. 14.
(3)  OJ  No  L 200, 31 . 7. 1975, p. 1 .                           (5) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
(4)  OJ  No  L 203, 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7.                            (<>) OJ No L 95, 17. -4 . 1975, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- 11 . 10 . 75                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 263/7
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                       the table annexed to this Regulation for the product
                                                                    listed therein .
                       Article 1
                                                                                                Article 2
The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 October
lation (EEC) No 1955/75 are hereby fixed as shown in                1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 10 October 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                 P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
                                                                                         Export levies in u.a./metric ton
      CCT
                            Nomenclature in simplified wording
   heading No                                                                                                             Other Member
                                                                           Denmark         Ireland        United Kingdom      States
11.08 A III    Wheat starch                                                 18-28          18-28                4-05         18-28
11.09 A        Dried wheat gluten                                           33-24          33-24                7-36         33-24
11.09 B        Wheat gluten, other than dried                               33-24          33-24                7-36         33-24