CELEX: 31973R2211
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2211/73 of the Commission of 14 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

15. 8 . 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 227/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 2211 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 14 August 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 ( J) 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 15 August
     on their effective parity ;                                      1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 14 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 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 14 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                                                 11.15 (5 )
                       10.03                Barley                                               0
                       10.04                Oats                                                 0
                       10 05 R              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                        0      (2 )(3)
                       10.07 A              Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B             Millet                                               0
                       10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                        0
                       10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                          0      (4)
                       11.01     A          Wheat or meslin flour                                0
                       11.01     B           Rye flour                                          34.36
                       11.02    Ala         Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                       11.02     Alb        Common wheat groats and meal                         0
                      V) 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 .