CELEX: 31973R1528
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1528/73 of the Commission of 8 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 154/4                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             9 . 6. 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1528/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 8 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 (1) 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                 prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
ofnew 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 1 3 (5) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending
Regulations ;                                                                              Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :               in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                  annexed to this Regulation .
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                                           Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 June 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 8 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.
 (3) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (4) OJ  No  L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                         ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 8 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 mesiin                  38-69
                     10.01 B              Durum wheat                               34-33 (*)(«.)
                     10.02                Rye                                       49-41 (5)
                     10.03               Barley                                     18-52
                     10.04                Oats                                      18-33
                     10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                              12-91 (2)(3)
                     10.07 A              Buckwheat                                    0
                     10.07 B              Millet                                    22-87
                     10.07 C              Grain sorghum                             21-04
                     10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                  o        n
                     11.01     A          Wheat or mesiin flour                     72-93
                     11.01     B          Rye flour                                 80-88
                     11.02     Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal               61-55
                     11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal              77-56
                     (') 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 is reduced by 6 u.a. /metric ton .
                     (•) 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 .