CELEX: 31975R0315
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-08 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 315/75 of the Commission of 7 February 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

8 . 2. 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 35/ 17
                               REGULATION ( EEC) No 315/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 7 February 1975
                                          fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (9), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (10) ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               Whereas the production refund on maize, common
Economic - Community ;                                              wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
67/ EECC ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  No 1132/74 ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;                                         Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts
67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                 to be considered respectively as import levy and
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­              production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ;                                       tion refund for the product in question respectively,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
 11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in             Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation                 whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
(EEC) No 2518 /74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2)              (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
thereof ;                                                           increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
Committee ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                    levies should be calculated on the following basis :
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09,                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                          within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
and common wheat on the one hand, and for broken                           based on their effective parity ;
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-745 and                — for other currencies, an exchang ;; rate based on the
 10-907 units of account ;                                                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 /75 (8), the                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                       in the previous subparagraph ;
 tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas
                                                                    Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is
                                                                    to the world market price of maize, common wheat
 introduced when it is found that the import levy for
 maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of               and broken rice and to the import levies that an
                                                                    export levy should be introduced for the products
 account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                 listed in the Annex,
 tion refund valid in the current month and that the
 average      of       the     levies       in    the   imme­        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of
                                                                                                Article 1
 account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
 tion 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                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 February
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                   1975 .
 cients relating to these products shown in column 4
                                                                     It shall apply from 8 February 1975 for starch
 («) OJ  No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                          products derived from maize, from 10 February 1975
 (2) OJ  No  L 11 , 16 1 . 1975, p. 1 .                              for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
 (3) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                                11 February 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 .                            (9) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
 (8  OJ  No  L 31 , 5 . 2. 1975, p. 15.                              ( 10) 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, 7 February 1975.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                     P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                  \                                                                          Export levies in u.a. /100 kg
        CCT
    heading No                    Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                       Other Member
                                                                              Denmark         Ireland      United Kingdom      States
 11.08 A I            Maize starch                                             2-000           2-096             1-771         2-000
 11.08 All            Rice starch                                              5-563 '         5-563            5-563          5-563
 11.08 A III          Wheat starch                                             3-854           3-854             3-901         3-854
 11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                             2-000           2-096             1-771         2-000
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                             2-000           2-096             1-771         2-000
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                        7-008           7-008             7-092         7-008
 11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                            7-008           7-008            7-092          7-008
 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 (*)                      2-608          2-734             2-310          2-608
 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 (')                                          2-000          2-096             1-771         2-000
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                              2-608          2-734             2-310         2-608
 17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                               2-000          2-096             1-771         2-000
 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                         2-484          2-604             2-200         2-484
( ) Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC, the product falling within subheading 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling
    within subheading 17.02 B II.