CELEX: 31973R2555
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2555/73 of the Commission of 20 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 9 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 265/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2555/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 20 September 1973
                    fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
Economic Community ;                                                      in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                           Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2076/73 to the
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­               offer prices and today's quotations known to the
lation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2), and in particular Article                Commission that the levies at present in force should
 13(5) thereof ;                                                      be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­                                       Article 1
tion (EEC) No 2076/73 (3) and subsequent amending                     The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Regulations ;                                                         in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                   67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                  annexed to this Regulation .
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                                             Article 2
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based              This Regulation shall enter into force on 21
      on their effective parity ;                                     September 1973.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 20 September 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(-') OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
b) O J No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 20 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                              heading                  Description of goods                     u.a. /ton
                                  No
                       10.01 A               Common wheat and mesiin                         0
                       10.01 B               Durum wheat                                     o       C )(4)
                       10.02                 Rye                                             0       (s)
                       10.03                 Barley                                          0
                       10.04                 Oats                                            4-59
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                   9-35 (»)(·)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                       0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                          8-29
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                   9-07
                       10.07      D          Canary seed ; other cereals                     0       (*)
                       11.01      A          Wheat or mesiin flour                           0
                       11.01      B          Rye flour                                       949
                       11.02      AIa        Durum wheat groats and meal                     0
                       11.02 AI b            Common wheat groats and meal                    0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                            that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0*50 u.a./metric ton .
                       (') Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into the
                            French Overseas Departments, the levy in reduced by 6 u.a./metric ton.
                        (•) Where maize originating in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                            the Community, the levy is reduced by 1 u.a./metric ton.
                       (4) Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly
                            from that country to the Community,,the levy is reduced by 0-50 u.a./metric
                            ton .
                       (•) 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 1234/71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2621/71.