CELEX: 31974R0446
Language: en
Date: 1974-02-23
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 446/74 of the Commission of 22 February 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

23 . 2. 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 51 /3
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 446/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 22 February 1974
                                        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 1 1 .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,
 (3) 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 .                            (7) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968, p. 8 .
 (b) OJ  No L 38 , 10. 2. 1973, p. 17.                              (8) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p . 30 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                          Article 2
                             Article 1                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 February
                                                                               1974 .
The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of Regu­
lation No 371 /67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in                             It shall apply from 23 February 1974 for starch
the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products                          products derived from maize and from 25 February
listed therein .                                                               1974 for starch products derived from soft wheat.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 February 1974.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                        CCT                                                                                   Export levies
                     heading No                         Nomenclature in simplified wording                   in u. a. / 100 kg
               11.08 AI                     Maize starch                                                          5-941
               11.08 A III                  Wheat starch                                                         11-268
               11.08 AIV                    Potato starch                                                         5-941
               11.08 A V                    Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or
                                            potato starch                                                         5-941
               11.09 A                      Dried wheat gluten                                                  20-488
               11.09 B                      Wheat gluten , other than dried                                     20-488
              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 (')                                  7-749
               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
                                            agglomerated (')                                                      5-941
               17.05 B I                    Flavoured or coloured glucose, ¡n the form of
                                            white crystalline powder, whether or not
                                            agglomerated                                                          7-749
              17.05 B II                    Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup , other
                                            than in the form of white crystalline powder,
                                           whether or not agglomerated                                            5-941
              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                                     7-380
              ( !) Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/ EKC , the product falling within subheading No 17.02 B 1 is subject to the
                   same levy as products falling within subheading No 17.02 B II .