CELEX: 31973R3048
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3048/73 of the Commission of 9 November 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

No L 310/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             10 . 11 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3048 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 9 November 1973
                                         fixing the export levies on starch products
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        seven days preceding the day it comes into force ;
                                                                   whereas this difference must then be multiplied for
                                                                    the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               cients relating to these products shown in column 4
Economic Community ;                                                of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (7), as
                                                                    last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (8);
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC ( ] ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­            Whereas the production           refund on    maize and
lation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2);                                        common       wheat intended    for the   manufacture     of
                                                                    starch and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regula­
                                                                    tion No 371 /67/ EEC ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /
67/EEC (3 ) fixing production refunds on starches and
quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 179/73 (4), and in particular the last sentence of                 Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1604/71 for the new Member States the amounts
Article 2 (2) thereof ;
                                                                    to be considered respectively as import levy and
                                                                    production refund in accordance with the preceding
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      Articles shall be the levy and the production refund
Committee ;                                                         for the product in question respectively, minus the
                                                                    applicable compensatory amount ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation No
371 /67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced for
                                                                    Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ;
products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08 A I,
III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I
                                                                    whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2)
of the Common Customs Tariff when world market
                                                                    (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 entails an
                                                                    increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of
prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80 units
of account ;
                                                                    account/ 100 kg of basic product ;
Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (5) of 26                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
347/73 (6), the Commission laid down detailed rules
for the application of the export levy on starch
                                                                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation
provides that a levy is introduced when it is found                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of                            within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange
account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­                      based on their effective parity ;
tion refund valid in the current month and that the
average of the levies in the immediately following fort­           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
night is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the average of the production refund valid in that fort­                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
night ;                                                                  relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of
basic product, to the difference between the produc­               Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy              to the world market price of maize and common
                                                                    wheat and to the import levies that an export levy
(!) OJ  No  117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                          should be introduced for the products listed in the
(2) OJ  No  L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .                           Annex ;
P)  OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 40.
(4) OJ  No  L 25, 30 . 1 . 1973, p . 6.
(5) OJ  No  L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                          C) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p . 8 .
(6) OJ  No  L 38 , 10 . 2. 1973, p . 17.                           (8) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30 .
 ---pagebreak---    10 . 11 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                          No L 310/9
   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                      Article 2
                               Article 1
                                                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 10
   The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­               November 1973 . It shall apply from 10 November
   lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                      1973 for starch products derived from maize and from
   the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                   12 November 1973 for starch products derived from
   listed therein .                                                       soft wheat.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 9 November 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                        P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                    ANNEX
                                                                                                Export levies in u. a. / 100 kg
         CCT
     heading No                  Nomenclature ¡n simplified wording                                     United                      Other
                                                                                  Ireland                                       Member States
                                                                                                      Kingdom
  11.08 AI             Maize starch                                                 3-508               3-508                      3,592
 11.08 Λ ΠΙ            Wheat starch                                               10-562               10-562                     10,562
 11.08 AIV             Potato starch                                               3-508                3-508                      3,592
 11.08 A V             Starohes other than maize, rice, wheat or
                       potato starch                                                3-508               3-508                      3,592
 11.09 A              Dried wheat gluten                                          19-204               19-204                     19,204
 11.09 B              Wheat gluten, other than dried                              19-204               19-204                     19,204
 17.02 B II a)         Glucose other than glucose containing, in the
                      cfry state, 99 % or more by weight of the pure
                       product, in the form of white crystalline pow­
                      der, whether or not agglomerated (*)                         4-576                4-576                      4,685
 17.02 B II b)        Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in
                      the diry 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 (')                                             3-508                3-508                      3,592
 17.05 B I            Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of
                      white crystalline powder, whether or not
                    • agglomerated                                                 4-576                4-576                      4,685
 17.05 B II           Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other
                      than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                      whether or not agglomerated                                  3-508                3-508                      3,592
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                            4-358                4-358                       4,462
(*) Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC , the product falling within subheading No 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling
     within subheading No 17.02 B II .