CELEX: 31973R1747
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1747/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 176/60                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            30. 6. 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1747/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 29 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 die pro­
                                                                      duction refund valid on die 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 Countil Regulation No 120/67                        shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation
EEC 0) 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 (l) annexed to the Treaty (8) 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 /fi) > and 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,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of
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                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on
found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                      the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                       each of these currencies recorded for a given
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
                                                                         period, in relation to the Community currencies
average of the levies in the immediately following                       referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
fortnight is at least 0 30 unit of account/100 kg
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
                                                                    mon wheat and to the import levies that an export
(») OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                             levy should be introduced for the products listed
(») OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(») 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.
F)  OJ  No   L 38 , 10 . 2. 1973 , p. 17.                           (#) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12 . 1971 , p. 1J.
 ---pagebreak---  30. 6. 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 176/61
 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 30 June
 Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as                               1973 . It shall apply from 30 June 1973 for starch
 shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for                          products derived from maize and from 2 July 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, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                         The President
                                                                                    Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
                                                                   ANNEX
                                                                                                        Export levies in u.a./100 kg
       CCT heading No                       Nomenclature in simplified wording                                    United             Other
                                                                                                Ireland                         Member States
                                                                                                                Kingdom
11.08 A I                         Maize starch                                                  4-361             4-361             4,506
11.08 A III                       Wheat starch                                                  4-976            4-792              4,976
11.08 A IV                        Potato starch                                                 4-361            4-361              4,506
11.08 A V                         Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                  potato starch                                                 4-361            4-361              4,506
11.09 A                           Dried wheat gluten                                            9-048             8-712             9,048
11.09 B                           Wheat gluten, other than dried                                9-048            8-712              9,048
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 H                           5-689             5-689              2,878
17.02 B II b)                     Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                                  the dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the
                                  pure product, other than glucose in the form
                                  of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                   agglomerated i1)                                            4-361             4-361              4,506
17.05 B I                         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                                  white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                  agglomerated                                                 5-689             5-689             2,878
17.05 B II                        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                                  than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                  whether or not agglomerated                                  4-361             4-361             4,506
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                             5-418             5-418             5,598
(*} 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 .