CELEX: 31973R2603
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2603/73 of the Commission of 26 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

27. 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 270/ 1
                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 26 September 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 1 346/73 (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
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
      on their effective parity ;                                     September 1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 26 September 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 .
("') OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 26 September 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                                        0      OX 4 )
                       10.02                    Rye                                                0      (5)
                       10.03                    Barley                                             0
                       10.04                     Oats                                              1·14
                       10.05 B                  Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                   for sowing                                      6·83 (2 )(3)
                       10.07 A                   Buckwheat                                         0
                       10.07 B                   Millet                                            6·89
                       10.07 C                   Grain sorghum                                     5·79
                       10.07 D                   Canary seed ; other cereals                       0      (4)
                       11.01 A                   Wheat or meslin flour                             0
                       11.01 B                   Rye flour                                        15·27
                        11.02 A 1 a              Durum wheat groats and meal                       0
                         1 1 .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 .
                       (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 .