CELEX: 31974R0012
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 12/74 of the Commission of 3 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

4. 1 . 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 3 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 12/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 3 January 1974
                 fixing the import 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 4 January
     on their effective parity ;                                     1974 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 January 1974.
                                                                               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 3 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                         on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                              C CT
                            heading                   Description of goods                       n. a. / ion
                               No
                    10.01 A                  Common wheat and meslm                            0
                    lo.oi u                  Durum wheat                                       o       on
                    10.02                    Rye                                               6-99 (5 )
                    10.01                    Barley                                            0
                     : 0.04                  Oats                                              0
                    10.05 B                  Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                     0        (*)(»)
                     10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                         0
                     ¡0.07 B                 Millet                                            0
                     10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                     0
                      10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereal *                      o        (V
                      1 1.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                             0
                      1 1.01 B               Rye flour                                        28-52
                      I 1.02 A I ¡i          Durum wheat groats and meal                       0
                      I 1.02 A I h           Common wheat groats and meal                      0
                    (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                          that country lo 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 .
                     (-1) Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                          the Community , the levy is reduced by I u . a . /metric ton .
                     (*) Where wheal 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
                          ion .
                     (') The inipon levy charged 011 rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                           from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                           (F.EC) No 1234 /71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .