CELEX: 31973R0920
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 920/73 of the Commission of 5 April 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 90/2                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               6 . 4. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 920/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 5 April 1973
                            fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 COMMUNITIES ,                                                      the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
                                                                    on 13 February 1973 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;                                           Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                         contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
 67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organi­                   offer prices and today's quotations known to the
zation of the market in cereals, as last amended by                 Commission that the levies at present in force
the Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Acces­                should be altered as shown in the Annex to this
 sion of new Member States to the European                          Regulation ;
Economic Community and the European Atomic
 Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22
January 1972, and in particular Article 13 (5 )                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                                                 Article 1
Committee ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye                  The import levies to be charged on the products
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by                       listed in Article 1 (a), (b ) and (c) of Regulation No
Regulation ( EEC ) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                      120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
amending Regulations ;                                              annexed to this Regulation.
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 levies should be calculated on the basis of an                                              Article 2
 exchange rate which is based, in the case of curren­
 cies which are floating or whose central rate differs              This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 April
 from the official parity, on the effective rate or the             1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
              Done at Brussels, 5 April 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(*)  OJ No   117 , 19.6 . 1967 , p. 2269/67 .
(l)  OJ No  L 73 , 27.3 . 1972 , p. 14 .
( 3) OJ No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(*)  OJ No  L 30, 1.2 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                         ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 5 April 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                     47-35
                     10.01 B             Durum wheat                                  44-11 m
                     10.02               Rye                                          42-62 (5)
                     10.03               Barley                                       35-62
                     10.04               Oats                                         27-22
                     10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                                37-65 ( 2)(s)
                     10.07 A             Buckwheat                                        0
                     10.07 B             Millet                                       38-19
                     10.07 C             Grain sorghum                                37-21
                     10.07 D             Canary seed ; other cereals                       0    (4 )
                     11.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                        84-23
                     11.01 B             Rye flour                                    70-04
                     11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                  77-26
                    11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                 90-26
                    (') 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 is 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 .