CELEX: 31975R0502
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 502/75 of the Commission of 28 February 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

1 . 3 . 75                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 55 / 5
                                   REGULATION ( EEC) No 502/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 28 February 1975
                                               fixing the export levies on starch products
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         of the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 1 052/68 (9), as
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                          last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 881 /73 ( l0 ) ;
 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/ EEC (')' 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 476/75 (4) ;                                             tion refund for the product in question respectively,
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                           minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
  1 1 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)
 thereof ;
                                                                        (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 / 74 entails an
                                                                         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 exchange rate based on the
  10-907 units of account ;
                                                                               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 Whereas, by Regulation ( EEC) No 1981 /74 ( 7), as last                       of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 28 1 /75 (s), 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
 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 maize, common wheat
 maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of                    and broken rice and to the import levies that an
 account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                     export levy should be introduced for the products
 tion refund valid in the current month and that the                     listed in the Annex ,
 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 ;
 Whereas the export levy must be equal , per 100 kg of                  The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
 basic product, to the difference between the produc­                    lation ( EEC) No 1 1 32/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                  the table annexed to this Regulation for the products
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the                listed therein .
 seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                                                     Article 2
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 March
cients relating to these products shown in column 4                      1975 .
(•)   OJ  No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 .                        It shall apply from 1 March 1975 for starch products
P)    OJ  No   L 11 , 16 1 . 197.5, p. 1 .                              derived from maize , from 3 March 1 975 for starch
(3 )  OJ  No   174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .                              products derived from soft wheat, and from 4 March
(4)   OJ  No   L 52, 28 . 2 . 1975, p. 31 .
(5)   OJ  No   L 128 , 10 . .5 . 1974, p. 24 .                           1 975 for starch products derived from broken rice .
(6)   OJ  No   L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974 , p. 1 .
(7) 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, 28 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                                             0.921            1.396             0.143        0.921
11.08 A II          Rice starch                                              5.563           5.563             5.563        5.563
11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                             3.351           3-351              3-029       3.351
11.08 A IV         Potato starch                                             0.921            1.396            0.143        0.921
11.08 A V          Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                   potato starch                                             0.921            1-396             0-143        0-921
11.09 A            Dried wheat gluten                                        6.092           6-092              5-508        6.092
11.09 B            "Wheat gluten, other than dried                           6.092           6.092              5.508        6.092
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 (*)                      1-201            1-821             0.187        1-201
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 (*)                                          0.921            1-396            0-143        0.921
17.05 B I         Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                   agglomerated                                              1.201           1 -821            0.187         1-201
17.05 B II         Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                  than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                   whether or not agglomerated                               0-921           1-396             0-143        0.921
23.03 A I          Residues from the manufacture of starch from
                  maize (excluding concentrated steeping liquor:),
                  of a protein content, calculated on the dry
                   product exceeding 40 % by weight                          1-144           1.734             0.178        1-144
O 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 .                                                                                      '               t>