CELEX: 31973R2431
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2431/73 of the Commission of 6 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

7 . 9 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 250/ 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2431 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 6 September 1973
                    fixing the 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 7 September
      on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 September 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2269 / 67 .
(-') OÌ No L 141 , 2H . 5 . 197 ?, p. S.
(•') OJ No L 212, 1 . S. 197,?, p . 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 6 September 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                            0
                       10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                         o       C )( 4)
                       10.02                   Rye                                              ■ 11-66 («)
                       10.03                   Barley                                              0
                       10.04                   Oats                                                9-14
                       10 05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                       13-15 (»)(»)
                       10.07 Λ                 Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                              3-64
                       10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                      14-11
                       10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                         0       (4 )
                       11.01 Λ                 Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                       11.01 B                 Rye flour                                         34-26
                       1 1 . 02 A I n          Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                       11.02 Λ Ih              Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                       (') 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
                             Frcuch Overseas Departments, the levy in reduced by 6 u . a . /metric ton .
                      H 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
                            toil .
                       (•) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                             from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                            ( Kl'X) No 1234/71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .