CELEX: 31973R3211
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3211/73 of the Commission of 28 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

29 . 11 . 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 329/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3211 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 28 November 1973
                   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 1346/73 (2 ), and in particular Article           Commission that the levies at present in force should
 1 3 (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 29
      on their effective parity ;                                 November 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 28 November 1973 .
                                                                             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 28 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                           on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 CCT
                               heading                    Description of Roods                        u.a. / 100
                                   No
                       10.01 A                Common wheat and meslin                               0
                       10.01 II                Durum wheat                                          0      on
                       10.02                   Rye                                                 11.66 (5)
                       10.03                   Barley                                               1.72
                       10.04                   Oats                                                 0
                       10.05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                        o       ( 2 KS)
                       10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                            0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                               2.29        '
                       10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                        0
                        10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                          0      (*}
                        11.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                                0
                        1 1 . 01 B             Rye flour                                           35.06
                        I 1 . 02 A 1 ;i        Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                        f 1 . 02 A 1 !>        Common wheat groats and meal                         0
                       ('} Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly front
                             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 in reduced by 6 it . 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 .
                       (') 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 impon 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 .