CELEX: 31973R3261
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3261/73 of the Commission of 3 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3261 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 3 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 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 4 December
     on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 3 December 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(*) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973, p . 8 .
h) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                               ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 3 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                             on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 C CT
                                heading                   Description of goods                          u. a. /ton
                                    No
                          10.01 A              Common wheat and mesiin                              0
                          10.01 B               Durum wheat                                         0         ( l )( 4 )
                          10.02                 Rye                                                12-62 (5 )
                          10.01                 Barley                                               1 -56
                          ; o.o4                Oats                                                0
                          10.05 I *             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                         0         ( Z )( 3 }
                          10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                          10.07 B               Millet                                              2-73
                          10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        0
                          10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         o         O
                          1 1.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flom­                               0
                          11.01 B               Rye flour                                          36-40
                          11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                          ! 1.02 A 1 h          Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                         (') Where liiinnn wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                              that country lo the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 ti . 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 .
                         (J) Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                              the Comnmniiy , 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 .