CELEX: 31973R0658
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 658/73 of the Commission of 8 March 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

9 . 3 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 63 / 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 658/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 8 March 1973
                             fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         central rate of these currencies and, in the case oi
COMMUNITIES,                                                           the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
                                                                       on 13 February 1973 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                       Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                         contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                        offer prices and today's quotations known to the
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                  Commission that the levies at present in force should
Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3 ) on the Accession                 , be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
of new Member States to the European Economic
Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in particular Article 13 (5 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                                                   Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and                        The import levies to be charged on the products
rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed by                    listed in Article 1 ( a), ( b) and ( c) of Regulation
 Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                         No 120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the
 amending Regulations ;                                                Table annexed to this Regulation .
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the basis of an                                                Article 2
exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
which are floating or whose central rate differs from                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 March
the official parity, on the effective rate or the                      1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 8 March 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 H OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14 .
 (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 ( 4 ) OI No I. 30, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 8 March 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                   46-20
                      10.01 B                Durum wheat                                  42-23 (*)(*)
                      10.02                  Rye                                          38-68 (5)
                      10.03                  Barley                                       30-41
                      10.04                   Oats                                         19-33
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                38-20 (*)(3)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                      0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                       29-47
                       10.07     C           Grain sorghum                               33-48
                       10.07     D           Canary seed; other cereals                     0         (4 )
                       11.01     A           Wheat or mesiin flour                        83-43
                       11.01     B           Rye flour                                    64-52
                       11.02     Ala         Durum wheat groats and meal                  74-32
                       11.02 Alb              Common wheat groats and meal                89-26
                       (') 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 .
                      f) 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 .