31973R1173

No L 119/8 5 . 5 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1173/73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 4 May 1973 fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN comes into force-, whereas this difference must then COMMUNITIES, be multiplied for the products mentioned in Art­ icle 1 by the coefficients relating to these products Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation pean Economic Community ; (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2728/71 (») ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67 EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas the production refund on maize and com­ mon wheat intended for the manufacture of starch tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (8) on the Accession and quellmehl is defined in Article 1 of Regulation of new Member States to the European Economic No 371 /67/EEC ; Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 4 (a) of Regulation munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972 ; (EEC) No 1604/71 for the new Member States die amounts to be considered respectively as import Having regard to Council Regulation No 371/67/ levy and production refund in accordance with the EEC (4) fixing production refunds on starches and preceding Articles shall be the levy and the pro­ quellmehl, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No duction refund for the product in question respec­ 179/73 (5), and in particular the last sentence of tively, minus the applicable compensatory amount ; Article 2 (2) thereof; Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary week ; whereas it is altered only if application of Committee ; Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 entails an increase or a reduction of more than Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Regulation 0 08 unit of account/100 kg of basic product; No 371/67/EEC, an export levy may be introduced for products falling within subheadings Nos 11.08 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, A I, III, IV and V, 11.09, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 levies should be calculated on the basis of an A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world mar­ exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies ket prices for maize or common wheat exceed 6-80 which are floating or whose central rate differs from units of account ; the official parity, on the effective rate or the central rate of these currencies and, in the case of Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1604/71 (6) of the US dollar, on the change in parity announced 26 July 1971 , as amended by Regulation (EEC) No on 13 February 1973 ; 347/73 (7 ), the Commission laid down detailed rules for the application of the export levy on Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­ starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regu­ sions to the world market price of maize and com­ lation provides that a levy is introduced when it is mon wheat and to the import levies that an export found that the import levy is at least 0-30 unit of levy should be introduced for the products listed account/100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ in the Annex; tion refund valid in the current month and that the average of the levies in the immediately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/100 kg HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : less than the average of the production refund valid in that fortnight; Article 1

Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg The export levies provided for in Article 2 (2) of of basic product, to the difference between the pro­ Regulation No 371/67/EEC are hereby fixed as duction refund valid on the day on which this shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation for export levy is fixed and the average of the levies the products listed therein. applicable on the seven days preceding the day it

Article 2 *) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. ») OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 May 8) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . 1973 . *) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 40. 8) OJ No L 25, 30. 1 . 1973, p. 6. •) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 11 . (8) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968, p. 8. T) OJ No L 38, 10. 2. 1973 , p. 17. (#) OJ No L 282, 23 . 12. 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, 4 May 1973 . For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

ANNEX

Export levies CCT heading No Nomenclature in simplified wording in u . a . /100 kg

11.08 A I Maize starch 11.08 A III Wheat starch 2·035 11.08 A IV Potato starch 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or potato starch 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 3·700 11.09 B Wheat gluten, other than dried 3·700 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 (*) 17.02 B II b) Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in the dry state, 99 % or more by weight of the pure product, other than glucose in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated (*) 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other than in the form of white crystalline powder, 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

i1 ) 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 .