CELEX: 31973R2344
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2344/73 of the Commission of 30 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

31 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 243/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2344/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 30 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 (') 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 31 August
     on their effective parity ;                                       1 973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 August 1 973 .
                                                                                  For the Co in miss ion
                                                                                    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, I. 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 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 mesiin                             0
                        10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          o        on
                        10.02                Rye                                                 11 -66 (5)
                        10.03                Barley                                               0
                        10.04                Oats                                                8-18
                        10 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                        7-96 m .
                        10.07 Λ              Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B              Millet                                               0-18
                        10.07    C           Grain sorghum                                       10-57
                        10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                          o        (*)
                        11.01     A          Wheat or mesiin flour                                0
                        11.01    B           Rye flour                                          35-07
                        11.02     A I a      Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                        11.02     Alb        Common wheat groats and meal                         0
                        (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                            that country 10 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 , die 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 .