31975R0245

1 . 2. 75 No L 27/ 5 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 245/75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 31 January 1975

fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as COMMUNITIES, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9) ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Whereas the production refund on maize, common Economic Community ; wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ No 1132/74 ; tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) lation ( EEC) No 85/75 (2) ; No 1981 / 74 for the new Member States the amounts Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ to be considered respectively as import levy and 67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ tion refund for the product in question respectively, tion (EEC) No 1 1 29 /74 (4 ) ; minus the applicable compensatory amount ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 11 32/74 (5) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ; whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2) the cereals and rice sectors, amended by Regulation (EEC) No 251 8 /74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2) (a) of Regulation ( EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an increase or a reduction of more than 0 08 unit of 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 11.08 A, 11.09 , relation to each other, at any given moment, 17.02 B II , 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange Customs Tariff when world market prices for maize based on their effective party ; and common wheat on the one hand , and for broken — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the rice on the other hand exceed respectively 8-745 and arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each 10-907 units of account ; of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) -No 1981 /74 (7), as last relation to the Community currencies referred to amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2518 /74, the in the previous subparagraph ; 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 maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of export levy should be introduced for the products 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 Article 1 diately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than the average of the produc­ The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­ tion refund valid in that fortnight ; lation ( EEC) No 1 132/ 74 are hereby fixed as shown in Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of the table annexed to this Regulation for the products basic product, to the difference between the produc­ listed therein . tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the Article 2 seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February whereas this difference must then be multiplied for 1975 . the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ cients relating to these products shown in column 4 It shall apply from 1 February 1975 for starch products derived from maize, from 3 February 1975 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/ 67. for starch products derived from soft wheat, and from (2) OJ No L 1 1 , 16 1 . 1 975, p. 1 . 4 February 1975 for starch products derived from (3) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 . broken rice . (") OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 . (5 ) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24. (6) OJ No L 270, 5. 10 . 1974, p. 1 . (s) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . (7) OJ No L 207, 29 . 7. 1974, p. 9 . O 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, 31 January 1975 .

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 2-148 2-096 1-581 2-148 11.08 A II Rice starch 5-563 5-563 5-563 5-563 11.08 A III Wheat starch 3-854 3-854 3-661 3-854 11.08 A IV Potato starch 2-148 2-096 1-581 2-148 11.08 A V Starches other than maize, rice, wheat or 2-148 2-096 1-581 2-148 potato starch 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 7-008 7-008 6-656 7-008 11.09 B 7-008 7-008 6-656 7-008 Wheat gluten, other than dried 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 2-801 2-734 2-062 der, whether or not agglomerated (*) 2-801 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 2-148 2-096 1-581 agglomerated (*) 2-148 17.05 B I Flavoured or coloured glucose, in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 2-801 2-734 2-062 2-801 17.05 B II Flavoured or coloured glucose syrup, other than in the form of white crystalline powder, whether or not agglomerated 2-148 2-096 1-581 2-148 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 2-668 2-604 1-964 2-668

( ) 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 .