31973R0396

No L 43 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 15 . 2 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 396/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 14 February 1973

fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN export levy is fixed and the average of the levies COMMUNITIES , applicable on the seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; whereas this difference must then be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products pean Economic Community ; shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67 tion (EEC ) No 2728 /71 (9 ) ; EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Whereas the production refund on maize and com­ the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch of new Member States to the European Economic and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­ No 371 /67/EEC ; munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 ( a) of Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation No 371 /67/ (EEC ) No 1604/71 for the new Member States the EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and amounts to be considered respectively as import quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No levy and production refund in accordance with the 179 /73 /5) ? and} in particular the last sentence of preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­ Article 2 (2 ) thereof; duction refund for the product in question respec­ tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation No .371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a for 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 week ; whereas it is altered only if application of A I of the Common Customs Tariff- when world mar­ Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 entails an increase or a reduction of more than ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6·80 units of account ; 0 08 unit of account/ 100 kg of basic product;

Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­ Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of sions to the world market price of maize and com­ 26 July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No mon wheat and to the import levies that an export 347/73 ( 7 ), the Commission laid down detailed levy should be introduced for the products listed rules for the application of the export levy on in the Annex; starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­ lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is found that the import levy is at least 0·30 unit of account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion refund valid in the current month and that the average of the levies in the immediately following Article 1 fortnight is at least 0·30 unit of account/100 kg less than the average of the production refund valid The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of in that fortnight; Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg the products listed therein. of basic product, to the difference between the pro­ duction refund valid on the day on which this Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 February *) OJ No 117, 19. 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. 1973 . 2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14. 8) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . *) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40. «) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973 , p . 6. 6) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 . (8) OJ No L 179, 25.7.1968, p. 8 . 7) OJ No L 38 , 10 . 2 . 1973 , p . 17. ( 9) OJ No L 282, ?J. 11. 1971 , p. 15.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 14 February 1973 . For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

ANNEX

Export levies in u.a. /100 kg CCT heading No Nomenclature in simplified wording United Other Member Kingdom States

11.08 A I Maize starch 1·201 1·412 11.08 A III Wheat starch 3·021 3·225 11.08 A IV Potato starch 1·201 1·412 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or 1·201 1·412 potato starch 11.09 A 5·492 5·864 Dried wheat gluten 11.09 B 5·492 5·864 Wheat gluten, other than dried 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 1·567 ' 1·842 der, whether or not agglomerated (*) 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 1·201 1·412 agglomerated (') 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not 1-567 1·842 agglomerated 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other than in the form of white crystalline powder, 1·201 1·412 whether or not agglomerated 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 1·492 1·754

(') 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 .