CELEX: 31973R1775
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1775/73 of the Commission of 2 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

3 . 7. 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 179/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1775/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 2 July 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 ( 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 ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending
Regulations ;                                                                            Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,               The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :              in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in               67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                 annexed to this Regulation.
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                                         Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each             This Regulation shall enter into force on 3 July 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 2 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.
(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 2 July 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                      32-34
                    10.01 B               Durum wheat                                   18-88 (x )(4)
                    10.02                 Rye                                           40-77 («)
                    10.03                 Barley                                        11-97
                    10.04                 Oats                                          14-74
                    10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                                  13-33 (2)(s)
                    10.07    A            Buckwheat                                       0
                    10.07    B            Millet                                        20-35
                    10.07     C           Grain sorghum                                 16-14
                    10.07    D            Canary seed ; other cereals                     o       (*)
                    11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                         64-04
                    11.01 B               Rye flour                                     68-78
                    11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                   38-21
                    11.02 A I b           Common wheat groats and meal                  67-96
                    (') '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 .