31975R0117

18 . 1 . 75 No L 13 / 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 117 / 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 17 January 1975

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/ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ No 1981 /74 for the new Member States the amounts tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ to be considered respectively as import levy and lation (EEC) No 85/75 (2) ; production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ tion refund for the product in question respectively, 67/EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ minus the applicable compensatory amount ; tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ 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) 11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation increase or a reduction of more than 0*08 unit of (EEC) No 251 8/74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2) account/ 100 kg of basic product ; thereof ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, Committee ; levies should be calculated on the following basis :

Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 (2) of Regulation (EEC) — in the case of currencies which are maintained in No 1132/74 , an export levy may be introduced for relation to each other, at any given moment, products falling within subheadings 11.08 A, 11.09, within a band of 2*25 % , at a rate of exchange 17.02 B II , 17.05B and 23.03 A I of the Common based on their effective parity ; Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8*745 and of these currencies recorded for a given period, in 10*907 units of account ; relation to the Community currencies referred to Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last in the previous subparagraph ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74, the Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­ Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas to the world market price of maize, common wheat Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is and broken rice and to the import levies that an introduced when it is found that the import levy for export levy should be introduced for the products maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0*30 unit of listed in the Annex, account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ tion refund valid in the current month and that the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : average of the levies in the imme­ diately following fortnight is at least 0*30 unit of Article 1 account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­ :ion refund valid in that fortnight ; The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­ Whereas the export levy must be equal , per 100 kg of lation ( EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in basic product, to the difference between the produc­ the Table annexed to this Regulation for the products tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy listed therein . is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; Article 2 whereas this difference must then be multiplied for the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 January cients relating to these products shown in column 4 1 975 . of the Annex to Regulation ( EEC) No 1052/68 (s), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ; It shall apply from 18 January 1975 for starch products derived from maize, from 20 January 1 975 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from (2) OJ No L 1 1 , 1 6 1 . 1 975, p. 1 . 3) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 . 21 January 1975 for starch products derived from (4) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20. broken rice . (5 ) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24 . (6) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . ( 7) OJ No L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 . (s) OJ No L 179, 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . H OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973 , p. 30 .

No L 13 / 6 18 . 1 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

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

Done at Brussels, 17 January 1975 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Export levies in u.a. /lOO kg \

CCT heading No Nomenclature in simplified wording Other Member Denmark Ireland United Kingdom States

11.08 A I Maize starch 3.756 3-499 , 3.499 3.756 11.08 All Rice starch 5.563 5-563 5.563 5.563 11.08 A III Wheat starch 7-242 7.357 6-382 7-377 11.08 A IV Potato starch 3-756 3.499 3.499 3.756 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or potato starch 3-756 3.499 3.499 3.756 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 13-168 13-376 11.604 13-412 11.09 B Wheat gluten, other than dried 13.168 13-376 11.604 13-412 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 (') 4-899 4.563 4-563 4-899 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 3.756 3-499 3-499 agglomerated ( 1 ) 3-756 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 4-899 4-563 4.563 4-899 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup , other than in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 3-756 3.499 3-499 3-756 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 4-666 4-346 4-346 4-666

() 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 . °