CELEX: 31975R0015
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 15/75 of the Commission of 3 January 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

4. 1 . 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 2/5
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 15/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 3 January 1975
                                         fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the production refund on maize, common
COMMUNITIES,                                                       wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
Economic Community ;                                                No 1152/74 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­             No 1981 /74 for the new Member Statesfcthe amounts
lation (EEC) No 1996/74 (2) ;                                       to be considered respectively as import levy and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         production refund shall be the levy and the produc­
67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                  tion refund for the product in question respectively,
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­              minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
1 1 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1 974 on production refunds in           whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular Article 7          (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an
                                                                    increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
(2) thereof ;
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 1 1 .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 8-20 and
10-20 units of account ;                                           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 (6), as
                                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2267/74 (7), 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
diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of                                        Article 1
basic product, to the difference between the produc­
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy             The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the            lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                  the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                 listed therein .
the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
cients relating to these products shown in column 4                                         Article 2
of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;
                                                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 January
                                                                    1975 .
(!) OJ  No   117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ  No   L 209, 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                              It shall apply from 4 January 1975 for starch products
(4) OJ  No   L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20 .                          derived from maize, from 6 January 1975 for starch
(5) OJ  No  L 128 , 10. 5. 1974, p. 24.                             products derived from soft wheat, and from 7 January
(6) OJ  No  L 207, 29. 7. 1974, p. 9 .                              1975 for starch products derived from broken rice .
(7) OJ  No  L 239, 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 53 .
(8) OJ  No  L 179 , 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 .
(9) 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, 3 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                                              4-463           4-170             4-170         4-463
 11.08 A II          Rice starch                                               5-563           5-563             5-563         5-563
 11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                              9.493           9.493             9.493         9-493
 11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                             4-463           4-170             4-170         4-463
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                             4-463           4-170             4-170         4-463
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                       17.260         17-260             17.260       17.260
 11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                           17.260         17.260             17.260       17.260
 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 (*)                      5-821           5.439             5-439        5.821
 17.02 B II b )      Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                     the dry state, 99 % or more by weight of the
                     pure product, other than glucose in the form
                     of white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated (*)                                          4-463           4-170             4-170        4-463
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                              5-821           5.439             5.439        5-821
 17.05 B II         Flavoured , or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than ii\ the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                               4-463           4-170             4-170        4-463
 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                           5-544          5-180              5-180        5-544
(1) 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 .