CELEX: 31973R3377
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3377/73 of the Commission of 14 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 345 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          15 . 12 . 73
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 3377/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 14 December 1973
                  fixing the import 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 1 346/73 (2), and in particular Article             Commission that the levies at present in force should
 13 (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             15
     on their effective parity ;                                    December 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .                                                                    >
               Done at Brussels, 14 December 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 .
b) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                               ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 14 December 1973 fixing the import 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         {•)(«)
                          10.02                  Rye                                             11·12 (5 )
                         10.03                   Barley                                           0
                         10.04                   Oats                                             0
                         10.05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                   for sowing                                     0         ( 2 )(3)
                         10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                        0
                         i 0.07 B                Millet                                           0
                         10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                    0
                         10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                      0        (*)
                         11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                            0
                         11.01 B                 Rye flour                                      34·30
                         1 1.02 A I a .          Durum wheat groats and meal                      0
                         I 1.02 A 1 h            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 In- 0·50 n . 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 ti . a . /metric ton .
                            Where wheal and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly
                            from that country 10 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 .