CELEX: 31975R0245
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 245/75 of the Commission of 31 January 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

1 . 2. 75                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 27/ 5
                                REGULATION ( EEC) No 245/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 31 January 1975
                                          fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;
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)
                                                                     No 1981 / 74 for the new Member States the amounts
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         to be considered respectively as import levy and
67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­
                                                                     production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­
                                                                     tion refund for the product in question respectively,
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ;
                                                                     minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
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 251 8 /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, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC)               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09 ,                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common                          within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize                          based on their effective party ;
and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken
                                                                     — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-745 and                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 10-907 units of account ;
                                                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) -No 1981 /74 (7), as last                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74, the                               in the previous subparagraph ;
 Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­
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                and broken rice and to the import levies that an
 maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of                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                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 average      of      the       levies      in     the   imme­
 diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of                                            Article 1
 account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­                The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
 tion refund valid in that fortnight ;                                lation ( EEC) No 1 132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of                 the table annexed to this Regulation for the products
 basic product, to the difference between the produc­                 listed therein .
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the                                        Article 2
 seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
 whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                   1975 .
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
 cients relating to these products shown in column 4                  It shall apply from 1 February 1975 for starch
                                                                      products derived from maize, from 3 February 1975
(')  OJ No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67.                         for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
(2)  OJ No   L 1 1 , 16 1 . 1 975, p. 1 .                             4 February 1975 for starch products derived from
(3)  OJ No   174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                               broken rice .
(")  OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .
(5 ) OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24.
(6)  OJ No   L 270, 5. 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                              (s) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 .
(7)  OJ No   L 207, 29 . 7. 1974, p. 9 .                              O 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, 31 January 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                                              2-148          2-096               1-581         2-148
 11.08 A II          Rice starch                                               5-563          5-563              5-563          5-563
 11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                              3-854          3-854               3-661         3-854
 11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                             2-148          2-096               1-581         2-148
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                             2-148          2-096               1-581         2-148
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                        7-008          7-008              6-656          7-008
 11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                            7-008          7-008               6-656         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 (*)                      2-801          2-734              2-062          2-801
 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 (*)                                          2-148          2-096               1-581         2-148
 17.05 B I          Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                              2-801          2-734              2-062          2-801
 17.05 B II         Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                               2-148          2-096               1-581        2-148
 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                           2-668          2-604              1-964         2-668
( ) 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.