CELEX: 31973R2517
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2517/73 of the Commission of 17 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

18 . 9 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 261 / 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2517/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 17 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 1346/73 (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            18
       on their effective parity ;                                    September 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 17 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 . S. 1 973 , p . 8 .
( 3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 17 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                                          o       m
                        10.02                 Rye                                                  o       (5)
                        10.03                 Barley                                               0
                        10.04                 Oats                                                 6·49
                        10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                        8·97 (2)(3) .
                        10.07 A               Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B               Millet                                               7·53
                        10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        7·55
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                           0      («)
                        11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                                 0
                        11.01 B               Rye flour                                           17·99
                         11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                           0
                         11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                          0
                        (i) 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 .
                         (3) 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 .