CELEX: 31973R2189
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-11
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2189/73 of the Commission of 10 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 223/4                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            11 . 8 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2189/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 10 August 1973
                   fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groat$ 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 ( 1 ) 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
1 3 (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 11 August
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 10 August 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 10 August 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          m
                        10.02                 Rye                                                28-02 (5)
                        10.03                 Barley                                              0
                        10.04                 Oats                                                0
                        10 05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                        0          ( 2 )(3)
                        10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                        10.07 B               Millet                                              140
                         10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                       0
                         10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                         0          (4 )
                        1 1.01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                               0
                         1 1.01 B             Rye flour                                          57-98
                         11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                        11.02 Alb             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 .
                        (') 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 .