CELEX: 31973R3340
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-13
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3340/73 of the Commission of 12 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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No L 342/ 2                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           13 . 12. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3340/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 12 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
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­                                  Article 1
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              13
     on their effective parity ;                                 December 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 12 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 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 12 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                           on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                              heading                   Description of goods                         it . .1 . / 1011
                                  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           (*)(»)
                        10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                         0
                        10.07 B                 Millet                                            0.87
                        10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                      0
                        10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereal *                      0            (V
                        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
                        11 .02 A 1 h            Common wheat groats and meal                      0
                       ( t) Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                            dint 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 .
                       {') 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
                            ion .
                        (•) 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 /7 1 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .