CELEX: 31973R0347
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-06
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 347/73 of the Commission of 6 February 1973 supplementing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 of 26 July 1971 on detailed rules for the application of an export levy on starches under Article 2 (2) of Regulation No 371/67/EEC

10 . 2. 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 38/ 17
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 347/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 6 February 1973
              supplementing Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 of 26 July 1971 on detailed
               rules for the application of an export levy on starches under Article 2 (2) of Regulation
                                                           No 371/67/EEC
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         amount should, where appropriate, be deducted
COMMUNITIES,                                                           from the import levy ;
                                                                       Whereas account must be taken of the fact that, by
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                     virtue of Regulation (EEC) No 179/73 , the produc­
pean Economic Community ;                                              tion refund in the new Member States is to be the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                         production refund applicable in the Community as
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                        originally constituted minus the compensatory
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                  amount ;
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty concerning the Acces­                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula­
sion of new Member States to the European Econ­                        tion are in accordance with the Opinion of the Man­
omic Community and the European Atomic Energy                          agement Committee for Cereals ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Regulation No 371/67/EEC (3) of
25 July 1967 fixing production refunds on starches                                              Article 1
 and quellmeM, as last amended by Regulation
 (EEC) No 179/73 (4), and in particular Article 5 (c)                  The following Article is added to Commission Regu­
thereof ;                                                              lation (EEC) N<J 1604/71 :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 57 of the Act, in fixing                      'Article 4(a)
the levetl of the various elements of the price and
 intervention system, account is to be taken for the                       For the new Member States the amounts to be
 new Member States, to the extent necessary for the                        considered respectively as import levy and pro­
proper functioning of Community rules, of the dif­                          duction refund in accordance with the preceding
ference in prices expressed by the compensatory                            Articles shall be the levy and the production
 amount ;                                                                   refund for the product in question respectively,
                                                                            minus the applicable compensatory amount'.
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 1604/71 (5) provides that an export levy shall, be                                             Article 2
introduced when it is found that the import levy on
maize or common wheat is lower than the amount                         This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of
of the production refund valid in the current                          its publication in the Official Journal of the Euro­
month ; whereas, therefore, in calculating the export                  pean Communities. It shall apply from 1 February
levy for the new Member States, the compensatory                       1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 6 February 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                     The President
                                                                                Francois-Xavier ORTOLI
(*)■ OJ   No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
(2) OJ    No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14.
 (s) 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 .