CELEX: 31975R0057
Language: en
Date: 1975-01-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 57/75 of the Commission of 10 January 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

11 . 1 . 75                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 7/ 5
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 57 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 10 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 1132/ 74 ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
 67/ EEC (') 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 States the 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 1 129/74 (4 ) ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
 11 32/74 (5 ) of 29 April 1974 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, 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
 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                     — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 10-20 units of account ;                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /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
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
diately following fortnight is at least 0.30 unit of
account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­
tion refund valid in that fortnight ;                                                             Article 1
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of
basic product, to the difference between the produc­                     The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­
 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                   lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the                 the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products
seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                        listed therein .
whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
                                                                                                  Article 2
cients relating to these products shown in column 4
of the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 1 052/ 68 (8), as
 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ;                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 January
                                                                          1975 .
(!)  OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 .                             It shall apply from 11 January 1975 for starch
(2 ) OJ No L 209 , 31 . 7 . 1974, p. 1 .
(3 ) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                                     products derived from maize, from 13 January 1975
(4 ) OJ   No  L  128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                             for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
(5 ) OJ   No  L  128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24 .                             14 January 1975 for starch products derived from
«    OJ   Ntf L  207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 .                              broken rice .
( 7) OJ   No  L  239 , 31 . 8 . 1974, p . 53 .
(s ) OJ   No  L  179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p . 8 .
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, 10 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                                              4.157           3.499              3.499         4-157
11.08 A II          Rice starch                                               5.563           5-563             5-563          5.563
11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                              7.880            8.281             8-173         8.840
11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                             4.157           3.499              3-499         4-157
11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                    potato starch                                             4-157           3-499              3.499         4-157
11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                       14.328          15-056            14.860         16-072
11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                           14.328          15-056            14-860         16.072
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 (*)                      5-422           4-563              4.563         5-422
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
                                                                              4-157            3-499             3-499         4-157
                    agglomerated (J)
17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                    white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    agglomerated                                              5-422            4-563             4-563         5-422
17.05 B II          Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                    than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                    whether or not agglomerated                               4-157            3-499             3-499         4-157
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                        5.164            4-346             4.346         5-164
(>) 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 .