CELEX: 31973R2912
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2912/73 of the Commission of 26 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

27 . 10 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 299 / 5
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2912/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 26 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(~ ), 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 27 October
      on their effective parity ;                                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 26 October 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 .
(-') 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 26 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       on
                       10.02                 Rye                                                 7-28 (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                              9-02
                       10.04                 Oats                                                3-33
                       10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                       8-21 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                       10.07 B                Millet                                             9-58
                       10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                      8-14
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                        0        n
                        11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                       11.01 B                Rye flour                                         28-93
                        11.02 A 1 a           Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                        11.02 All)            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 iliat country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-J0 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 .