CELEX: 31978R2724
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2724/78 of 23 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

24. 11 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 329 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2724/78
                                                       of 23 November 1978
                 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       trend of the market, account being taken in particular
COMMUNITIES,                                                         of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to
                                                                     cause abnormal disturbances on the Community
                                                                     market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                also be taken into account, whether this quality corres­
Economic Community,                                                  ponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulations
                                                                     (EEC) No 2731 /75 (9), as amended by Regulation
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         (EEC) No 1156/77 (10), ancj (EEC) No 2734/75, or
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                     whether adjustments need to be made by applying the
zation of the market in cereals (J), as last amended by              coefficients of equivalence provided for in Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2), and in particular                   No 158/67/EEC (n) as last amended by Regulation
Article 13 (5) thereof,                                              (EEC) No 1637/71 (12), and in Regulation No 159/
                                                                     67/EEC (") ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,
                                                                     Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
                                                                     the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 ( 1 ) of                other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 that a levy must be                      corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
charged on imports of the products listed in Article 1               charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
(a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation ; whereas the levy is
equal for each product to the threshold price less the
cif price ;                                                          Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for wheat               for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed                 Customs Tariff ;
for the 1978/79 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)
No 2734/75 (3), (EEC) No 1255/78 (4), (EEC) No
 1257/78(5) and (EEq NO 1408/78 (6) ;                                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices
used to determine the levies, the Commission must                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation                     relation to each other at any given moment within
No 156/67/EEC Q, as last amended by Regulation                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(EEC) No 31 /76 (8), and in particular the most favou­                    their effective parity ;
rable purchasing opportunities on the world market
among those which are most representative of the real                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
(») OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975,  p. 1.
(2) OJ   No L 156,  14. 6.   1978 , p. 1.                                 of these currencies recorded for a given period in
(3) OJ   No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975,  p. 34.
(4) OJ   No L 156,  14. 6.   1978,  p. 2.                            C) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 22.
(') OJ   No L 156,  14. 6.   1978 , p. 5.                            (10) OJ No 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 11 .
M OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 28.                                   (»») OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2536/67.
O OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.                                (12) OJ No L 170, 29. 7. 1971 , p. 20.
(8) OJ No L 5, 10. 1 . 1976, p. 18.                                  (13) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2542/67.
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    relation to the Community currencies referred to         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    in the previous subparagraph ;                                                  Article 1
                                                             The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions of      in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
the abovementioned Regulations that the levies               2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regula­        annexed to this Regulation.
tion ; whereas these levies should be altered only
                                                                                    Article 2
where variations in the components used to calculate
them would have the effect of increasing or reducing         This Regulation shall enter into force on 24
them by 0-60 unit of account or more,                        November 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 23 November 1978 .
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 23 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals
                                       and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                          (u.a./tonne)
                               CCT
                                                                  Description                             Levies
                              heading
                                No
                       10.01 A                  Common wheat, and meslin                               78.03
                       10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                          (1) (5)
                       10.02                    Rye                                                    78.68 (')
                       10.03                    Barley                                                 85.85
                       10.04                    Oats                                                   79.56
                       10.05 B                  Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                sowing                                                 76.87 (2) (3 )
                       10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                               0
                       10.07 B                  Millet                                                 54-72 (4)
                       10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                          76-22 (<)
                       10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                             0     e)
                       11.01 A                  Wheat or meslin flour                                 120.44
                       11.01 B                  Rye flour                                             121.34
                       11 .02 A I a)            Durum wheat groats and meal                           194.39
                       11.02 A lb)              Common wheat groats and meal                          129.53
                        ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                           Community, the levy is reduced by 0.50 u.a./tonne .
                       2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                           ments, the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./tonne as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 706/76.
                       ') Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                           reduced by 1.50 u.a./tonne.
                       4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                           the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                       5) Where durum 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./tonne .
                       6) 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 1180/77 and
                           Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .