CELEX: 31973R2077
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2077/73 of the Commission of 31 July 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on cereals, flour and malt

1 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 212/3
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2077/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 31 July 1973
                              fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on cereals, flour and malt
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           to be effected during the month following the month
  COMMUNITIES,                                                            in which the import licence is issued , this price must
                                                                          be the cif price for shipment during that month ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      Whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment
  pean Economic Community ;                                                during the month preceding the month in which im­
                                                                          portation is expected to take place in the case of
                                                                         imports to be effected during the last two months
 Having regard to Regulation No 120/67/EEC ( x ) of                       for which the import licence is valid ;
  13 June 1967 on the common organization of the
 market cereals, as last amended by Regulation (EEC )                     Whereas the premium is equal to 0 unit of account
 No 1346/73 (2), and in particular Article 15 (6) there­                  if the cif price determined on the day on which the
  of ;                                                                    scale of premiums is fixed is equal to the cif forward
                                                                          delivery price or exceeds that price by not more than
                                                                         0-125 unit of account per metric ton ;
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;
                                                                          Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
                                                                          higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
                                                                         certain specific limits ;
 Whereas the scale of premiums to be added to the
 import levies fixed in advance for cereals must
                                                                          Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 include a premium for the current ■ month and a
                                                                         1080/68 ( 5) of 26 July 1968 on the procedure for cal­
 premium for each of the three following months ;
                                                                          culating the levy on products processed from cereals
 whereas the amount of each premium must be the                           and rice and for the advance fixing of the levy for
 same throughout the Community ;                                         some of these products , as amended by Regulation
                                                                         ( EEC) No 1047/73 ( 6), provides for the addition of a
                                                                         premium to the levy fixed in advance for products
Whereas Council Regulation No 140/67/EEC ( 3) of                          falling within tariff heading No 11.07 ; whereas this
 21 June 1967, as amended by Regulation (EEC ) No                        premium is, per 100 kg of processed product, equal
2435/70 (4), laid down rules for the advance fixing                      to the premium applicable on the day on which the
of levies on cereals ;                                                   licence was applied for to the quantity of basic prod­
                                                                         uct taken as a basis for the calculation of the variable
                                                                         component of the levy ;
Whereas, under the terms of that Regulation , where
 the cif price for a cereal determined on the day on                     Whereas, pursuant to Commission Regulation ( EEC )
 which the scale of premiums is fixed is higher than                    No 971 /73 (7 ) of 9 April 1973 , on the advance fixing
 the cif forward delivery price for that cereal, the                    of the levy on wheat and meslin flour, a premium
 scale of the premium should as a general rule be                       is added to the levy fixed in advance for the products
 equal to the difference between these two prices ;                     falling under subheading No 11.01 A of Article 1 ( c)
whereas the cif price is that determined in accor­                     of Regulation No 120/67/EEC ; whereas this
dance with Article 13 of Regulation 120/67/EEC on                       premium must be equal , per metric ton of the pro­
the day on which the scale of premiums is fixed ;                       cessed product, to that applicable on the date of
whereas the cif forward delivery price is also deter­                   application for an import licences for the basic prod­
mined in accordance with Article 13 of Regulation                      uct, account being taken of the quantity of the basic
 120/67/EEC but on the basis of offers at North Sea                    cereal required for the production of one metric ton
ports ; whereas this price must be the cif price for                   of flour ;
shipment during the month in which the import
licence is issued in the case of imports to be effected                 Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
during that month ; whereas, in the case of imports                    tion No 120/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for
                                                                        in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                       Customs Tariff ;
(')   OJ   No 117, 19.6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .
H     OJ   No L 141 , 28.5 . 1973 , p . 8 .                            (») OJ No L 181 , 27 . 7 . 1968 , p . 6 .
{')   OJ   No 125 , 26.6 . 1967, p . 2456 /67 .                        ( 6 ) OJ No L 104, 19 . 4 . 1973 , p . 30 .
(4)   OJ   No L 262 , 3 . 12 . 1970, p . 3 .                           ( 7 ) OJ No L 95 , 11.4 . 1973 , p . 10 .
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Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,           application of the abovementioned provisions entails
levies should be calculated on the following basis :          a change of more than 0125 unit of account ;
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
    relation to each other, at any given moment,              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
    within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based
    on their effective parity ;                                                       Article 1
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the          The scale of the premiums to be added, pursuant to
    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each           Article 15 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC, to the im­
    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in        port levies fixed in advance in respect of cereals and
    relation to the Community currencies referred to           malt is hereby fixed as shown in the Tables annexed
     in the previous subparagraph ;                           to this Regulation.
 Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­                                    Article 2
 sions that the premiums should be fixed as shown in
the Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
amount of the premiums should be altered only if               1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 July 1973 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission
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                                                                      ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                      the levies on cereals, flour and malt
                                                             A. Cereals and flour (l)
                                                                                                                                    ( u.a.fton )
        CCT                                                                                           1st           2nd            3rd
                                                                                    Current
       heading                         Description of goods                                         period        period         period
         No                                                                            8               9             10             11
10.01 A            Common wheat, and mesiin                                            0               0             0               0
10.01 B            Durum wheat                                                         0               0              0              0
10.02              Rye                                                                 0               0              0              0
10.03              Barley                                                              0               0              0              0
10.04              Oats                                                                0               0              0            072
10.05 B            Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing                            0               0              0              0
10.07 A            Buckwheat                                                           0               0              0               0
10.07 B            Millet                                                              0               0              0              0
10.07 C            Grain sorghum                                                       0               0              0              0
10.07 D            Other                                                               0               0              0               0
11.01 A            Wheat or mesiin flour                                               0               0               0              0
C) The period of validity of the licence is limited to thirty days in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1455/73 (OJ No L 144 , 31 . 5 . 1973 ,
      p. 73 ).
                                                                       B. Malt
                                                                                                                                (u.a . 1100 k*)
         CCT                                                                           1st            2nd            3rd            4th
                                                                     Current
       heading                Description of goods                                   period         period         period         period
          No                                                             8              9              10             11             12
 i 1 .07 A I ( a ) Unroasted malt, obtained from
                      wheat, in the form of flour                       0               0               0              0              0
 11 .07 A I ( b )  Unroasted malt, obtained from
                      wheat, other than in the form
                      of flour                                          0               0               0              0              0
 1 1.07 A H ( a )  Unroasted malt, other than that
                      obtained from wheat, in the
                      form of flour                                      0              0               0              0              0
 11.07 A 11 ( b)   Unroasted malt, other than that
                      obtained from wheat, other
                      than in the form of flour                          0              0               0              0              0
 1 1.07 B          Roasted malt                                          0              0               0              0              0