CELEX: 31973R3160
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3160/73 of the Commission of 22 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

23 . 11 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 322/7
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3160/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 22 November 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 ( 1 ) 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 23
     on their effective parity ;                                     November 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 22 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 22 November 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       0 )( 4 )
                        10.02                  Rye                                              14-12 (5)
                        10.03                  Bailey                                             8-55
                        : 0.04                 Oats                                               0
                        10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                      0        (2) (3)
                        10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                        10.07 B                Millet                                             4-65
                        10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                      0
                         10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                        0        (4)
                         11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                         11.01 B               Rye flour                                         38-51
                         1 1.02 A 1 a          Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                         1 1.02 A 1 b          Common wheat groats and meal                       0
                        (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                             that country 10 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 u . a ./metric tor..
                         (") Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                             the Community , tne 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 it . a . /metric
                             ton .
                         (·) 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 .