CELEX: 31973R0801
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-24 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 801/73 of the Commission of 23 March 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 76/22                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 3 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 801 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 23 March 1973
                                          fixing the export levies on starch products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     comes into force, whereas this difference must then
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­
                                                                    icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                 shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
 pean Economic Community;                                           (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                    tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (») ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     Whereas the production refund on maize and com­
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by                  mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession             and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation
 of new Member States to the European Economic                      No 371 /67/EEC;
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                      Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;                    (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /67/                    amounts to be considered respectively as import
 EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and                  levy and production refund in accordance with the
 quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­
 179/73 (5) } and in particular the last sentence of                duction refund for the product in question respec­
Article 2 (2) thereof;                                              tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
                                                                    Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;
                                                                   week ; whereas it is altered only if application of
                                                                    Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71
                                                                    entails an increase or a reduction of more than
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation
 No 371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced                    0-08 unit of account/ 100 kg of basic product;
 for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03            levies should be calculated on the basis of an
A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­
                                                                    exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80                    which are floating or whose central rate differs from
units of account ;                                                  the official parity, on the effective rate or the
                                                                    central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of
                                                                    the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
26 July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    on 13 February 1973 ;
347/73 (7), the Commission laid down detailed
rules for the application of the export levy on                     Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­             sions to the world market price of maize and com­
lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is                mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                levy should be introduced for the products listed
account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                 in the Annex :
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following
fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
less than the average of the production refund valid
in that fortnight;                                                                         Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg                  The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of
of basic product, to the difference between the pro­               Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as
duction refund valid on the day on which this                      shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for
export levy is fixed and the average of the levies                 the products listed therein.
applicable on the seven days preceding the day it
                                                                                            Article 2
(*) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 March
(8) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.                                 1973 .
(*)  OJ No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 40.
(5 ) 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 .
( 7) OJ No   L 38, 10. 2. 1973 , p. 17.                            (») OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 1971 , p. 15.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 23 March 1973 .
                                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                   Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                ANNEX
                                                                                                         Export levies
                CCT heading No                         Nomenclature in simplified wording               in u.a ./100 kg
           11.08 AI                         Maize starch                                                      .
           11.08 AHI                        Wheat starch                                                    0-763
           11.08 A IV                       Potato starch                                                     —
           11.08 A V                        Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                            potato starch
           11.09 A                          Dried wheat gluten                                              1-388
           11.09 B                          Wheat gluten, other than dried                                  1-388
           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 (')
           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
           17.05 B I                        Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                            white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                            agglomerated
           17.05 B II                       Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                             than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                            whether or not agglomerated
           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                                  —
           (*) 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.