CELEX: 31973R2016
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2016/73 of the Commission of 26 July 1973 fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 206/ 12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             27. 7. 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2016/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 26 July 1973
                fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      ties of cereals required for their manufacture ; whereas
COMMUNITIES,                                                        these quantities were fixed in Regulation No 162/
                                                                    67/EEC (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               1607/71 (6);
Economic Community ;
                                                                    Whereas the world market situation or the specific
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
67/ EEC ( J) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                sary to vary the refund for certain products according
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the               to destination ;
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of
new Member States to the European Economic                          Whereas the refund must be fixed once a week ;
Community and the European Atomic Energy                            whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular the first sentence of the fourth sub­             Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
paragraph of Article 1 6 (2) thereof ;                              refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
                                                                        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
                                                                        on their effective parity ;
Whereas Article 16 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC
provides that the difference between quotations or                  — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
prices on the world market for the products listed in                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                       of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
products in the Community may be covered by an                          relation to the Community currencies referred to
export refund ;                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation No 139/                     Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
67/ EEC (4) of 21 June 1967 laying down general rules               criteria to the present situation on the market in
for granting export refunds on cereals and criteria for             cereals and in particular to quotations or prices for
fixing the amount of such refunds provides that when                these products within the Community and on the
refunds are being fixed account must be taken ofthe                 world market that the refund should be fixed at the
existing situation and the future trend with regard to              amounts shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
prices and availabilities of cereals on the Community
market on the one hand and prices for cereals and                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
cereal products on the world market on the other ;                  are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
whereas the same article provides that it is also impor­            ment Committee for Cereals ;
tant to ensure equilibrium and the natural develop­
ment of prices and trade on cereal markets and,
furthermore, to take into account the economic aspect
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of the proposed exports and the need to avoid distur­
bances on the Community market ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 139/67/EEC
defines the specific criteria to be taken into account              The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b)
when the refund on cereals is being calculated ;                    and (c) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC, exported in the
                                                                    natural state, are hereby fixed as shown in the Annex
Whereas these specific criteria are defined, as far as              to this Regulation .
wheat and rye flour, groats and meal are concerned, in
Article 4 of Regulation No 139/ 67/EEC ; whereas,                                             Article 2
furthermore, when the refund on these products is
being calculated, account must be taken of the quanti­
                                                                    This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 July
                                                                    1973 .
(!) 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.                                (5) OJ No 128 , 27. 6 . 1967, p . 2574/67.
(4) OJ  No  125, 26. 6 . 1967, p. 2453/67.                          (6) OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 16.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 26 July 1973 .
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                             Member of the Commission
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                                                                  ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 26 July 1973 fixing the refunds applicable to cereals and
                                        certain categories of wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                                          u.c. / tl
         CCT heading
              No                                           Description of products                                 Refund
           10.01 A              Common wheat i 1 ), and mesiin :
                                For exports to :
                                — Senegal, Cameroon, Gabon, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast and
                                   Chad                                                                            25-00
                               — Other third countries                                                                —
           10.01 B             Durum wheat                                                                            —
           10.02               Rye t1 )                                                                               —
           10.03               Barley                                                                                 —
           10.04               Oats                                                                                  —
           10.05 B             Maize ( other than hybrid maize for sowing)                                           —
           10.07 C             Grain sorghum                                                                         —
     ex 11.01 A                Wheat flour (2) :
                               — of an ash content of 0 to 520
                               — of an ash content of 521 to 600                                                     —
                               — of an ash content of 601 to 900                                                     —
                               — of an ash content of 901 to 1 100                                                   —
                               —■ of an ash content of 1 101 to 1 650                                                —
                               — of an ash content of 1 651 to 1 900                                                 —
    ex 11.01 B                 Rye flour :
                               — of an ash content of 0 to 700
                              — of an ash content of 701 to 1 150                                                    —
                              —· of an ash content of 1 151 to 1 600                                                 —
                              — of an ash content of 1 601 to 2 000                                                  —
          11.02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal :
                              —1 of an ash content of 0 to 950                                                      —
                              — of an ash content of 951 to 1 300                                                   —
       ■
                              — of an ash content of 1 301 to 1 500                                                 —
          11.02 A I b I       Common wheat groats and meal (2 ) :
                       i
                              — of an ash content of 0 to 520
                      J                                                                                             —
    (') The refund is granted solely in respect of common wheat and rye which has not been denatured pursuant to Article 7 (3)
         and (5) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC .
    (*) The refund is granted solely in respect of common wheat flour, groats and meal manufactured from common wheat which
         has not been denatured pursuant to Article 7 (3) and (5) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.
    The amount by which the refund may be increased pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation No 587/
    67/EEC is 2 u.a. /ton .