CELEX: 31973R2759
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2759/73 of the Commission of 11 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

12. 10 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 285/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2759/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 11 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 1346/73 (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
ievies 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 12 October
     on their effective parity ;                                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 11 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 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 11 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 mesiin                             '0
                        10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                         o       m
                        10.02                   Rye                                                 0-74 (5)
                        10.03                   Barley                                              0
                        10.04                   Oats                                                0
                        10.05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                        6-18 (2)(3)
                        10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                           0
                        10.07 B                 Millet                                              5-10
                        10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                       4-38
                        10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        n
                        1 1.01 A        '       Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                        11.01 B               , Rye flour                                          19-78
                        11.02 A I ;i            Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                         1 1 .02 A I b          Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                        (') 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 .
                         (f) 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 .