CELEX: 31973R1156
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1156/73 of the Commission of 3 May 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

4. 5 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 118/21
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1156/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 3 May 1973
                            fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     central rate of these currencies and, in the ease of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
                                                                    on 13 February 1973 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
 pean Economic Community ;                                          Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                        contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
 67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organi­                   offer prices and today's quotations known to the
 zation of the market in cereals, as last amended by                Commission that the levies at present in force
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Acces­                should be altered as shown in the Annex to this
 sion of new Member States to the European                          Regulation ;
 Economic Community and the European Atomic
 Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22
 January 1972, and in particular Article 13 (5 )                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 thereof ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                                               Article 1
 Committee ;
 Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye                The import levies to be charged on the products
 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by                     listed in Article 1 (a), (b ) and (c) of Regulation No
 Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                      120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
 amending Regulations ;                                            annexed to this Regulation.
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 levies should be calculated on the basis of an                                             Article 2
 exchange rate which is based, in the case of curren­
 cies which are floating or whose central rate differs             This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 May
 from the official parity, on the effective rate or the             1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 May 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(*)  OJ  No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
(')  OJ  No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14.
(*)  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 3 May 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                      43-78
                      10.01 B              Durum wheat                                   44-26 (»)(*)
                      10.02                Rye                                           45-66 (5)
                      10.03                Barley                                        40-61
                      10.04                Oats                                          31-39
                      10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                 32-41 (2)( 3)
                      10.07     A          Buckwheat                                        0
                      10.07     B          Millet                                        36-56
                      10.07     C          Grain sorghum                                 35-60
                      10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                      o      (4)
                      11.01     A          Wheat or mesiin flour                         80-05
                      11.01     B          Rye flour                                     74-29
                      11.02     Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal                   77-52
                      11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                  85-37
                      (') 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 anci OCT is imported into                 the
                          French Overseas Depattments, the levy is 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 .
                      (») 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 .