31975R3108

29 . 11 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 309/45

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3108 / 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 28 November 1975

fixing the export levies on starch products manufactured from rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the production refund on broken rice COMMUNITIES, intended for the manufacture of starch is defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2742/75 ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 for the new Member States the amounts to be considered respectively as import levy and Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ production refund shall be the levy and the produc­ 67/ EEC ( ! ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion refund for the product in question respectively, tion of the market in rice , as last amended by Regula­ minus the applicable compensatory amount ; tion ( EEC) No 668 /75 (2 ) ;

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 1 (2) 2742/75 (3) of 29 October 1975 on production refunds (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 entails an in the cereals and rice sectors, and in particular increase or a reduction of more than 0-8 unit of Article 6 (2) thereof ; account/metric ton of basic product ;

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 6 (2) of Regulation (EEC) — in the case of currencies which are maintained in No 2742/75, 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 the threshold prices less the — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the production refund ; arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Whereas, by Regulation (EEC) No 2007/75 (4), the relation to the Community currencies referred to Commission laid down detailed rules for the applica­ in the previous subparagraph ; tion of the export levy on starch products ; whereas Article 1 ( 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 broken rice is at least 3 units of account/ metric ton import levies that an export levy should be introduced less than the amount of the production refund valid for the product listed in the Annex, in the current month and that the average of the levies in the immediately following fortnight is at least 3 units of account/ metric ton less than the average of the production refund valid in that fort­ night ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas the export levy must be equal, per metric ton of basic product, to the difference between the produc­ Article 1 tion refund valid on the day on which this export levy is fixed and the average of the levies applicable on the The export levies provided for in Article 6 (2) of Regu­ seven days preceding the day it comes into force ; lation ( EEC) No 2742/75 are hereby fixed as shown in whereas this difference must then be multiplied for the table annexed to this Regulation for the product the products mentioned in Article 1 by the coeffi­ listed therein . cients relating to these products shown in column 4 of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2744/75 (5) ;

(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . Article 2 (J ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 . (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 57. Y) OJ No L 203, 1 . 8 . 1975, p. 7. This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 (5 ) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 65 . November 1975 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 November 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 All Rice starch 18-70 18-70 18-70 16-43