31975R0884

No L 85 / 8 5 . 4 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 884/75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 4 April 1975

fixing the export levies on starch products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the COMMUNITIES, seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; whereas this difference must then be multiplied for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ Economic Community ; cients relating to these products shown in column 4 of the Annex, to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (9), as Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 ( 10) ; 67/ EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ Whereas the production refund on maize, common lation ( EEC) No 85/75 (2) ; wheat and broken rice intended for the manufacture of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ No 1132/ 74 ; 67/ EEC (3) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) tion ( EEC) No 476/75 (4 ) ; No 1981 / 74 for the new Member States the amounts to be considered respectively as import levy and Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ 1 132/74 (5 ) of 29 April 1974 on production refunds in tion refund for the product in question respectively, the cereals and rice sectors , as last amended by Regula­ minus the applicable compensatory amount ; tion ( EEC) No 31 13/74 (6), and in particular Article 7 (2) thereof ; Whereas the export levy must be fixed- once a week ; whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2) Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an Committee ; increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of

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 11.08 A, 11.09 , levies should be calculated on the following basis : 17.02 B II , 17.05 B 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 10-31 and based on their effective parity ; 12-74 units of account ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Whereas, by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (7), as last arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 28 1 /75 ( 8), 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 Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions introduced when it is found that the import levy for to .the world market price of broken rice and to the maize, wheat or broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of import levies that an export levy should be introduced account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the produc­ for the product listed in the Annex, tion refund valid in the current month and that the 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 Article 1 tion 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 1 132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in basic product, to the difference between the produc­ the table annexed to this Regulation for the product tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy listed therein .

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 . Article 2 (2 ) OJ No L 11 , 16 1 . 1975, p. 1 . (3 ) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 April (4 ) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2 . 1975 , p. 31 . 1 975 . (5 ) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24. (b) OJ No L 332, 12 . 12. 1974, p . 1 . O OJ No L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p . 9 . O OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7 . 1968 , p. 8 . ( s ) OJ No L 31 , 5 . 2. 1975, p . 15 . ( I0 ) 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 , 4 April 1975 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Export levies in a.a./100 kg I

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

11.08 An Rice starch 2.777 2.777 2.777 2.777