CELEX: 31973R2817
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2817/73 of the Commission of 17 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

18 . 10 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 291 / 9
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2817/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 17 October 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 (') 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 1 346/73 (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
                                                                                              Article 1
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
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 18 October
     on their effective parity ;                                      1 973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 October 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269 /67.
(2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
(3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                               ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 17 October 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 meslin                              0
                         10.01 B               Durum wheat                                          o         on
                         10.02                 Rye                                                  3.75 (5)
                         10.03                 Barley                                               0
                         10.04                 Oats                                                 0
                         10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                       11.44 (2)(3)
                         10.07 A               Buckwheat                                            0
                         10.07 B               Millet                                               3.97
                         10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                       8.52
                         10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                         0         (4)
                         11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                                3.30
                         11.01 B               Rye flour                                           23.99
                         11.02 A 1 a            Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                         1 1 .02 A 1 b          Common wheat groats and meal                        3.32
                         (') 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 .
                         (') 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 .