CELEX: 31973R2159
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2159/73 of the Commission of 8 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

9 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 221 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2159/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 8 August 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
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 9 August
      on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 8 August 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 .
 P) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 8 August 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 mesiin                           0
                       10.01 B              Durum wheat                                        o       m
                       10.02                Rye                                               29-49 (»)
                       10.03                Barley                                             0
                       10.04                Oats                                               8-86
                        10 05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                      0 '(»)(>)
                        10.07    A          Buckwheat                                          0
                        10.07    B          Millet                                            13-57
                        10.07    C          Grain sorghum                                      5-57
                        10.07    D          Canary seed ; other cereals                        0       («)
                       11.01     A          Wheat or mesiin flour                              4-37
                        11.01 B             Rye flour                                         60-04
                       11.02 A la           Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                       11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                       4-72
                       (') 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 .
                       (') 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) J^o 2622/71 .