CELEX: 31975R0884
Language: en
Date: 1975-04-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 884/75 of the Commission of 4 April 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 85/ 8                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                5 . 4. 75
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 884/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 4 April 1975
                                           fixing the export levies on starch products
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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
Economic Community ;                                                 cients relating to these products shown in column 4
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                          of the Annex, to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (9), as
67/ EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 ( 10) ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­              Whereas the production refund on maize, common
lation ( EEC) No 85/75 (2) ;                                          wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
                                                                      of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                           No 1132/ 74 ;
67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­                Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
tion ( EEC) No 476/75 (4) ;                                           No 1981 / 74 for the new Member States the amounts
                                                                      to be considered respectively as import levy and
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
1 132/74 (5 ) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in               tion refund for the product in question respectively,
the cereals and rice sectors, as last amended by Regula­              minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
tion ( EEC) No 31 13/74 (6), and in particular Article 7
(2) thereof ;                                                         Whereas the export levy must be fixed- once a week ;
                                                                      whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
Committee ;                                                           increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation ( EEC)               account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                      Whereas, if' the levy system is to operate normally,
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09 ,                  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken
                                                                             within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 10-31 and                         based on their effective parity ;
 12-74 units of account ;
                                                                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Whereas, by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 28 1 /75 (8), the                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is            Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
introduced when it is found that the import levy for                  to .the world market price of broken rice and to the
maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of
                                                                      import levies that an export levy should be introduced
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                   for the product 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
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­                                              Article 1
 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 1 132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                  the table annexed to this Regulation for the product
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                listed therein .
(')  OJ No    117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .                                                   Article 2
(2 ) OJ No   L 11 , 16 1 . 1975, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No    174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April
(4 ) OJ No   L 52, 28 . 2 . 1975 , p. 31 .                              1 975 .
(5 ) OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24.
(b)  OJ No   L 332, 12 . 12. 1974, p . 1 .
O    OJ No   L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p . 9 .                            O OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .
(s)  OJ No   L 31 , 5 . 2. 1975, p . 15 .                             ( I0 ) 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, 4 April 1975 .
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
              I                                                                    Export levies in a.a. /100 kg
       CCT
   heading No              Nomenclature in simplified wording                                                    Other Member
                                                                    Denmark         Ireland      United Kingdom      States
11.08 An         Rice starch                                         2.777           2.777            2.777         2.777