CELEX: 31979R2617
Language: en
Date: 1979-11-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2617/79 of 27 November 1979 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 301 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           28 . 11 . 79
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2617/79
                                                       of 27 November 1979
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           their effective parity ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 Economic Community,                                                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies in relation to the Community
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           currencies referred to in the previous indent ;
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
 tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by              Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on
                                                                    26 November 1979 ;
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2), and in particular
Article 1 3 (5) thereof,                                            Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                  contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1658/79 to today's
value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to              offer prices and quotations known to the Commission
be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                  that the levies at present in force should be altered to
                                                                    the amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
 tural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 2543/73 (4), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Committee,
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­             The import levies to be charged on products listed in
 tion (EEC) No 1 658/79 (5) and subsequent amending                 Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
 Regulations ;                                                      2727/75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :                                        Article 2
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 28
     relation to each other at any given moment within               November 1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 27 November 1979 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
(1) OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No  106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(<) OJ  No  L 263, 19 . 9 . 1973, p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No  L 193, 1 . 8 . 1979, p. 5.
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                                                               ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 27 November 1979 fixing the import levies on cereals
                                       and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                         (ECU/tonne)
                               CCT
                              heading                           Description                               Levies
                                No
                        10.01 A                 Common wheat, and meslin                             74.68
                        10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                          9800 (1) (5)
                        10.02                   Rye                                                  57.39 (<>)
                        10.03                   Barley                                               64.72
                        10.04                   Oats                                                 72-51
                        10.05 B                 Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                sowing                                               81.55 (2) (3)
                        10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                              0
                        10.07 B                Millet                                                42-86 (4)
                        10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                        76.51 (4)
                        10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                            0      (5)
                        11.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                                11812
                        11.01 B                Rye flour                                             93-90
                        11.02 A I a)            Durum wheat groats and meal                         16507
                        11.02 A lb)            Common wheat groats and meal                         126.92
                        ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                           Community, the levy is reduced by 0.60 ECU/tonne.
                        2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                           ments the levy is reduced by 7.25 ECU/tonne as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                           706/76.
                        3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                           reduced by 1.81 ECU/tonne.
                        4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                           the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                        5) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that
                           country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0.60 ECU/tonne.
                        ') The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that
                           country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1180/77 and
                           Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .