31975R2580

No L 263/6 11 . 10 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2580/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 10 October 1975 fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from cereals

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 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 980/75 (6).

Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas the production refund on maize and tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ common wheat intended for the manufacture of lation ( EEC) No 665/75 (2) ; starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1955/75 ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1 955/75 (3) of 22 July 1975 on production refunds in Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) the cereals and rice sectors and in particular Article 6 No 2007/75 for the new Member States the amounts (2) thereof ; to be considered respectively as import levy and production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ tion refund for the product in question respectively, Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary minus the applicable compensatory amount ; Committee ;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) Whereas the export levy must be fixed once a week ; No 1955/75, an export levy may be introduced for whereas it is altered only if application of Article 1 (2) products falling within heading No 1 1 .09 and (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 entails an increase or a reduction of more than 0-8 unit of subheadings 11.08 A, 17.02 B II, 17.05 B and 23.03 A I of the Common Customs Tariff when world market account/metric ton of basic product ; prices for maize and common wheat exceed the threshold prices less the production refund ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies should be calculated on the following basis : Whereas by Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 (4) the Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­ tion of an export levy on starches ; whereas Article 1 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in ( 1 ) of this Regulation provides that a levy shall be relation to each other, at any given moment, introduced when it is found that the import levy on within a band of 2-25 % , at a rate of exchange maize or common wheat is at least three units of based on their effective parity ; account/metric ton less than the amount of the production refund valid in the current month and that — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the the average of the levies in the immediately following arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each fortnight is at least three units of account/metric ton of these currencies recorded for a given period, in less than the average of the production refund valid in relation to the Community currencies referred to that fortnight ; in the previous subparagraph ;

Whereas the export levy must be equal, per metric ton Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions of basic product, to the difference between the produc­ to the world market price of common wheat and to tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy the import levies that an export levy should be intro­ duced for the product listed in the Annex, (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 72, 20. 3 . 1975, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 200, 31 . 7. 1975, p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 . (4) OJ No L 203, 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7. (<>) OJ No L 95, 17. -4. 1975, p. 1 .

11 . 10 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 263/7

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the table annexed to this Regulation for the product listed therein . Article 1 Article 2 The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 October lation (EEC) No 1955/75 are hereby fixed as shown in 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 10 October 1975 .

For the Commission

P. J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

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

11.08 A III Wheat starch 18-28 18-28 4-05 18-28 11.09 A Dried wheat gluten 33-24 33-24 7-36 33-24 11.09 B 33-24 33-24 7-36 33-24 Wheat gluten, other than dried