CELEX: 31973R1628
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1628/73 of the Commission of 20 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 164/ 6                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           21 . 6 . 73
                               REGULATION ( EEC) No 1628 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 20 June 1973
                      fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community ;                                                Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                     requested ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new Member States to the European Economic                           sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                             altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof ;
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                            Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                     The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                  in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                 67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  annexed to this Regulation .
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2·25 % , a rate of exchange based                                    Article 2
      on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 June
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 20 June 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(')  OJ  No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 .
(2)  OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14.
P)   OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
(-») OJ  No  L 30 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 20 June 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                            30·55
                        10.01 B              Durum wheat                                         27·93 OK4)
                        10.02                Rye                                                 48·63 (5)
                        10.03                Barley                                              24·98
                        10.04                 Oats                                               17·03
                        10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                       10·44 (2)(s)
                        10.07 A              Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B              Millet                                             22·87
                        10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                       20·35
                        10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                          0      (*)
                        11.01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                               62·13
                        11.01 B              Rye flour                                          79·79
                        11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                         52·24
                        11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                        65·90
                        (l) 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 .
                       (8) 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 .
                        (5) 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 .