CELEX: 31975R0372
Language: en
Date: 1975-02-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 372/75 of the Commission of 14 February 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 41 / 12                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                15 . 2 . 75
                                 REGULATION ( EEC) No 372/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 14 February 1975
                                             fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (9), as
COMMUNITIES,                                                            last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 ( 10) ;
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 (-') 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 1 129/74 (4) ;                                            tion refund for the product in question respectively,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            minus the applicable compensatory amount ;
 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, 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 8-745 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 1 98 1 /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                    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 irn oort 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
 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 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in
 basic product, to the difference between the produc­                    the table annexed to this Regulation for the products
  tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy                 listed therein .
  is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
  seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;                                                 Article 2 ,
  whereas this difference must then be multiplied for                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 5 February
  the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­                      1 975 .
  cients relating to these products shown in column 4
                                                                          It shall apply from 15 February 1975 for starch
  (')  OJ No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67.                           products derived from maize, from 17 February 1975
  (2 ) OJ No   L 11 , 16 1 . 1975 , p. 1 .                                for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from
  (3 ) OJ No   174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .                                  18 February 1975 for starch products derived from
  (4 ) OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                             broken rice .
  (5 ) OJ No  L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24 .
  (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, 14 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                                             2-140           2-096             2-415         2-140
  11.08 All           Rice starch                                              5-563           5-563             5-563         5-563
  11.08 A III         Wheat starch                                             5-379           5-379             5-603         5-379
  11.08 A IV          Potato starch                                            2-140           2-096             2-415         2-140
 11.08 A V           Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                     potato starch                                             2-140           2-096             2-415         2-140
 11.09 A             Dried wheat gluten                                        9-780           9-780            10-188         9-780
 11.09 B             Wheat gluten, other than dried                            9-780           9-780            10-188         9-780
 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 (*)                      2-791           2-734             3-150         2-791
 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
                                                                                              2-096              2-415
                     agglomerated (*)                                          2-140                                           2-140
 17.05 B I           Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                     white crystalline powder, whether or not
                     agglomerated                                              2-791          2-734              3-150         2-791
 17.05 B II '        Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                     than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                     whether or not agglomerated                               2-140          2-096              2-415         2-140
 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                          2-658          2-604              3-000         2-658
(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.