CELEX: 31973R1586
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1586/73 of the Commission of 15 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

16. 6. 73                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 159/ 1
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                                                  (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1586/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 15 June 1973
                      fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                                relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                            in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                    Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                        requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC ( !) 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 Accessionof                    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 13(5) thereof ;
                                                                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                               Article 1
 Regulations ;
                                                                        The import levies to be charged on the products listed
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
 levies should be calculated on the following basis :                   67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    annexed to this Regulation .
       relation to each other, at any given moment,
       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                                       Article 2
       on their effective parity ;
 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 June
       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                  1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 15 June 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.
  (3 ) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
  (4)  OJ  No  L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 15 June 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                  30·55
                       10.01 B              Durum wheat                               28·02 (*)(«)
                       10.02               Rye                                        48·63 (5)
                       10.03               Barley                                     18·52
                       10.04                Oats                                      19·11
                       10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                8·68 («)(»)
                       10.07 A             Buckwheat                                    0
                       10.07 B             Millet                                     22·87
                       10.07 C             Grain sorghum                              21·04
                       10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                 0       (4)
                       11.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                      61·53
                       11.01 B             Rye flour                                  79·79
                       11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                52·38
                       11.02 Alb           Common wheat groats and meal               65·25
                      {') 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 is 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 .