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2 . 8 . 75 No L 204/ 17 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2016/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 1 August 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice

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 the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European cients relating to these products shown in column 4 Economic Community ; of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1052/68 (7), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 980/75 (8) ; Whereas the production refund on broken rice Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ intended for the manufacture of starch is defined in 67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ Article 1 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1132/74 ; tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 476/75, (2) ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) 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 11 32/74 (3) 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 (4 ), and in particular Article 7 Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ; (2) thereof ; whereas it is altered only if application of Article 2 (2) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1981 /74 entails an increase or a reduction of more than 0-08 unit of Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary account/ 100 kg of basic product ; Committee ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, 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 II of the within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange Common Customs Tariff when world market prices based on their effective parity ; for broken rice exceed 12-74 units of account ; — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 1 98 1 /74 (5), as last relation to the Community currencies referred to amended by Regulation (EEC) No 281 /75 (6), 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 broken rice and to the Article 2 ( 1 ) of that Regulation provides that a levy is import levies that an export levy should be introduced introduced when it is found that the import levy for for the product listed in the Annex, broken rice is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than the amount of the production refund valid in the current month and that the average of the levies in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the immediately following fortnight is at least 0-30 unit of account/ 100 kg less than the average of the Article 1 production refund valid in that fortnight ; The export levies provided for in Article 7 (2) of Regu­ lation (EEC) No 1132/74 are hereby fixed as shown in the table annexed to this Regulation for the product Whereas the export levy must be equal, per 100 kg of listed therein . basic product, to the difference between the produc­ tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy Article 2 . (■) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 August (2 ) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975, p. 31 . 1975 . (3 ) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 24. (4 ) OJ No L 332, 12. 12. 1974, p. 1 . (5 ) OJ No L 207, 29 . 7 . 1974, p. 9 . (7) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7. 1968 , p. 8 . (<>) OJ No L 31 , 5 . 2. 1975, p. 15. 8) OJ No L 95, 17. 4 . 1975, p . 1 .

No L 204/ 18 2 . 8 . 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, 1 August 1975. For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Export levies in u.a./ l 000 kg CCT Nomenclature in simplified wording heading No Other Member Denmark Ireland United Kingdom States

11.08 A II Rice starch 27-77 27-77 27-77 27-77