31973R0347

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 production refund applicable in the Community as Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ originally constituted minus the compensatory EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ amount ; tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the 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 For the new Member States the amounts to be intervention system, account is to be taken for the considered respectively as import levy and pro­ new Member States, to the extent necessary for the duction refund in accordance with the preceding proper functioning of Community rules, of the dif­ Articles shall be the levy and the production ference in prices expressed by the compensatory refund for the product in question respectively, amount ; 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 .