CELEX: 31973R1904
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1904/73 of the Commission of 16 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

17. 7. 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 196/ 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1904/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 16 July 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/
67/EEC (1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new Member States to the European Economic                           sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                             altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­               The import levies to be charged on the products listed
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                     in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Regulations ;                                                        67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                  annexed to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 17 July
     on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 July 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No   117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ  No   L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14.
(3) OJ  No   L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4) OJ  No   L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 16 July 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                       31.36
                      10.01 B                Durum wheat                                      0.10 n (*)
                      10.02                  Rye                                            40.28 (5)
                      10.03                  Barley                                         16.41
                      10.04                  Oats                                            18.05
                      10.05 B              . Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                   13.99 (2) (3)
                      10.07 A                Buckwheat                                        0
                      10.07 B                Millet                                          27.03
                      10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                   19.88
                      10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                      0      («)
                      11.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                          62.66
                      11.01 B                Rye flour                                       68.10
                      11.02 A I a            Durum wheat groats and meal                      9.10
                      11.02 Alb              Common wheat groats and meal                    66.47
                       (l) 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 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.
                      (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 .
                      (•) 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 .