CELEX: 31973R1847
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-11
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1847/73 of the Commission of 10 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

11 . 7. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 188/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1847/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 10 July 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/
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the             contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of             prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new Member States to the European Economic                        sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                          altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 1 3 (5) thereof ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
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 the products listed
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and 'subsequent amending                 in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Regulations ;                                                     67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,               annexed to this Regulation.
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 11 July
     on their effective parity ;                                  1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 10 July 1973.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No   117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (2) OJ No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (*) OJ No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
 (4  OJ No   L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 188/2                       Official Journal of the European Communities                                11 . 7. 73
                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 10 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                              or rye flour, groats and meal
                              CCT
                            heading                   Description of goods                      u.a./toft
                               No
                      10.01 A               Common wheat, and meslin                        31·46
                      10.01 B               Durum wheat                                       9·29 (*)(*)
                      10.02                 Rye                                             39·61 (5)
                      10.03                 Barley                                          17·38
                      10.04                 Oats                                            16·80
                      10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                     10·47 (2)(3)
                      10.07 A               Buckwheat                                         0
                      10.07 B               Millet                                          23·96
                      10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                    15·06
                      10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                       0      (*)
                      11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                            62·80
                      11.01 B               Rye flour                                        67·16
                      11.02 Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal                     23·34
                      11.02 A I b           Common wheat groats and meal                     66·62
                       (') 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 2622/71 .