CELEX: 31973R1728
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1728/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 176/2                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           30 . 6. 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1728/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 June 1973
                   fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                    in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                            Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (')      '3 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 :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                       Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,             in Article I (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :            67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in , the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in             annexed to this Regulation .
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rafe of exchange based                                Article 2
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the            This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 June
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each            1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                       Member of the Commission
(') Oj No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269 /67 .
I1) 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 . 1 973, p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 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                           32-34
                     10.01 B               Durum wheat                                        22-03 (»)(«)
                     10.02                 Rye                                                40-77 (5)
                      10.03                Barley                                             11-97
                      10.04                Oats                                               15-51
                      10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                      14-09 (2)(3)
                      10.07 A              Buckwheat                                           0
                      10.07 B              Millet                                             22-26
                      10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                      17-67
                      10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                         0     («)
                      11.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                              64-04
                      11.01 B              Rye flour                                          68-78
                      11.02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                        43-09
                      11.02 A I b          Common wheat groats and meal                       67-96
                      (') 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.
                     (s) 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) No 2622/71 .