31974R2346

14. 9 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 251 /5

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2346/74 OF THE COMMISSION

of 13 September 1974

fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) COMMUNITIES, No 1132/74 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ to be considered respectively as import levy and 67/EEC (•) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ tion refund for the product in question respectively, lation (EEC) No 1996/74 (2) ; minus the applicable compensatory amount ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 11 32/74 (3) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ; the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular Article 7 whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2) (2) thereof ; (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of Committee ; account/ 100 kg of basic product ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, products falling within subheadings 1 1 .08 A, 11 .09, levies should be calculated on the following basis : 17.02 B II, 17.05B and 23.03 A I of the Common — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize relation to each other, at any given moment, and common wheat on the one hand, and for broken within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-20 and based on their effective parity ; 10-20 units of account ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 981 /74 (4), as arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2267/74 (5), the of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­ relation to the Community currencies referred to tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas in the previous subparagraph ; Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is introduced when it is found that the import levy for Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of to the world market price of maize, common wheat account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ tion refund valid in the current month and that the and broken rice and to the import levies that an export levy should be introduced for the products average of the levies in the imme­ listed in the Annex, diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion refund valid in that fortnight ; Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of basic product, to the difference between the produc­ Article 1 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­ seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in whereas this difference must then be multiplied for the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ listed therein . cients relating to these products shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (7) ; Article 2 Whereas the production refund on maize, common wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 September 1974. (!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. (2 ) OJ No L 209 , 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 . It shall apply from 14 September 1974 for starch (3) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24. products derived from maize, from 16 September (4) OJ No L 207 , 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 . 1974 for starch products derived from soft wheat, and (5) OJ No L 239 , 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 53 . (6) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . from 17 September 1974 for starch products derived (7) OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p. 30 . from broken rice .

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

Done at Brussels, 13 September 1974.

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

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

11.08 A I Maize starch 3-961 3-961 3-961 3-961 * 11.08 A II Rice starch 5-563 5-563 5-563 5-563 11.08 A III Wheat starch 8-382 8-382 8-382 8-382 11.08 A IV Potato starch 3-961 3-961 3-961 3-961 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or potato starch 3-961 3-961 3-961 3-961 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 15-240 15-240 15-240 15-240 11.09 B Wheat gluten, other than dried 15-240 15-240 15-240 15-240 17.02 B II a) Glucose other than glucose containing, in the dry state, 99 °/o or more by weight of the pure product, in the form of white crystalline pow­ der, whether or not agglomerated (*) 5-166 5-166 5-166 5-166 17.02 B II b) Glucose and glucose syrup not containing, in the dry state, 99 e/o or more by weight of the pure product, other than glucose in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated (*) 3-961 3-961 3-961 3-961 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 5-166 5-166 5-166 5-166 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup , other than in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 3-961 3-961 3-961 3-961 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 4-920 4-920 4-920 4-920

(l) 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 .