CELEX: 31974R0061
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-11
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 61/74 of the Commission of 10 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

11 . 1 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 9 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 61 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 10 January 1974
                  fixing the import 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 1 1 January
      on their effective parity ;                                    1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 10 January 1974.
                                                                               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 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 10 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                           on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                              CCT
                             heading                   Description of goocK                         U . ;i ' loll
                                 No
                      10.01 A                 Common w hen i n tief mesiin                       0
                     10.01 K                  Durum wheat                                         0        OH
                     10.02                    Rye                                                 0        (»)
                     1 0.0 3                  Barley                                              0
                      : o.o4                  Oats                                                0
                     I0.0S it                 Maize other than hybrid mni /e
                                                for sowing                                        0        (*)(»)
                     10.07 A                  Buckwheat'                                         0
                     i 0.07 D                 Millet                                             0
                     10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                       0
                     10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other ce rea k                       o         C)
                     11.01 A                  Wheal or mesiin flour                              0
                      11.01 li                Kye flour                                           3-78
                     i 1 . 02 A I ,.          Durum wheat y roa t ,s and meal                    0
                      1 1 . 02 λ 1 b          Common wheat » roats and meal                      0
                    (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                           that country 10 the Community , ilic 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 . n . /metric ton .
                    (') Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey arc transported direuly
                           from that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-50 u . a . /metric
                           ion .
                    (*| The impoii 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 .