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14 . 12 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 334/ 13

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3149/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 December 1974 fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the production refund on maize, common COMMUNITIES, wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) Economic Community ; No 1132/74 ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ lation ( EEC) No 1996/74 (2) ; to be considered respectively as import levy and Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ 67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion refund for the product in question respectively, tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ minus the applicable compensatory amount ; tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (4) ; Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2) 1 132/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular Article 7 increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of (2) thereof ; account/ 100 kg of basic product ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC) levies should be calculated on the following basis : No 1132/74, an export levy may be introduced for — in the case of currencies which are maintained in products falling within subheadings 1 1 .08 A, 11 .09, 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common relation to each other, at any given moment, Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of . exchange and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken based on their effective parity ; rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-20 and — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the 10-20 units of account ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (6), as of these currencies recorded for a given period, in amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2267/74 (7), the relation to the Community currencies referred to Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­ in the previous subparagraph ; tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions introduced when it is found that the import levy for to the world market price of maize , common wheat maize , wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of and broken rice and to the import levies that an account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ export levy should be introduced for the products tion refund valid in the current month and that the listed in the Annex, average of the levies in the imme­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­ tion refund valid in that fortnight ; A rticle 1 Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of basic product, to the difference between the produc­ The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­ tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy lation ( EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; listed therein . whereas this difference must then be multiplied for the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ Article 2 cients relating to these products shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ; December 1974 . (>) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 / 67. It shall apply from 14 December 1974 for starch (2) OJ No L 209, 31 . 7 . 1974, p. 1 . (3) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 . products derived from maize, from 16 December 1974 (*) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20 . for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from (5) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24. 1 7 December 1 974 for starch products derived from (*) OJ No L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 . broken rice . (7) OJ No L 239, 31 . 8 . 1974, p. 53 . («) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . M OJ No L 86, 31 . 3. 1973, p. 30.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 December 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 4-315 4-315 4-315 4-315 11.08 A II Rice starch 5-563 5-563 5-563 5-563 11.08 A III Wheat starch 9-251 9-251 9-251 9-251 11.08 A IV Potato starch 4-315 4-315 4-315 4-315 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or potato starch 4-315 4-315 4-315 4-315 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 16-820 16-820 16-820 16-820 11.09 B Wheat gluten, other than dried 16-820 16-820 16-820 16-820 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 (*) 5-628 5-628 5-628 5-628 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 4-315 4-315 4-315 4-315 agglomerated i 1 ) 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 5-628 5-628 5-628 5-628 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucosè syrup, other than in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 4-315 4-315 4-315 4-315 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 5-360 5-360 5-360 5-360 h

(l) Pursuant to Regulation No 189/66/EEC , the product falling within subheading 17.02 B I is subject to the same levy as products falling within subheading 17.02 B II .