CELEX: 31973R2593
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2593/73 of the Commission of 25 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

26. 9 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 269 /3
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2593/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 25 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 (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 26
     on their effective parity ;                                  September 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
               Done at Brussels, 25 September 1973 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67.
I2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
(') OJ No L 212, I. 8 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 25 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 meslin                              0
                       10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          0       ( l )(4)
                       10.02                Rye                                                  0       (8)
                       10.03                Barley                                               0
                       10.04                Oats                                                 0.22
                       10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                        5.93 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A              Buckwheat                                            0
                       10.07 B              Millet                                               7.53
                       10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                         8.31
                       10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                           0      (*)
                       11.01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                                 0
                       11.01 B              Rye flour                                           13.75
                       11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                           0
                        11.02 Alb           Common wheat groats and meal                          0
                       (i) 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 top.
                       (') Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into the
                           French Overseas Departments , the levy in 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.
                       (*) 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 .
                       (5) 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.