CELEX: 31978R2712
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-23 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2712/78 of 22 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

23    11 . 78                         Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 328 /3
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2712/78
                                                  of 22 November 1978
                  fixing the import 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 it follows from applying the provisions
                                                                 contained in Regulation ( EEC) No 2510/78 to the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     offer prices and today's quotations known to the
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
                                                                 Commission that the levies at present in force should
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by
                                                                 he altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
Regulation (EEC) No 1 254/78 (2), and in particular
Article 13(5) thereof,
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 2510/78 (J ) and subsequent amending                                      Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                The import levies to be charged on products listed in
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,              Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
levies should be calculated on the following basis :             2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in              annexed to this Regulation .
     relation to each ether at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on                                      Article 2
     their effective parity ;
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the           This Regulation shall enter into force on            23
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each            November 1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 22 November 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                               Vice-President
(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1
I2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
 } OJ No L 301 , 28 . 10 . 1978 , p. 1 .
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                                                                     ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 22 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals
                                         and . on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                               ( u.a . fan HI )
                                CCT
                               heading                               Description                               Levies
                                  No
                        10.01 A                      Common wheat, and meslin                              7803
                        10.01 B                      Durum wheat                                          118.38 (') (5)
                        10.02                        Rye                                                   78 '68 (*)
                        10.03                         Barley                                               85.85
                        10.04                        Oats                                                  79.56
                        10.05 B                      Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                     sowing                                                76.87 (2) (3)
                       10.07 A                       Buckwheat                                              0 .
                        10.07 B                      Millet                                                54-72 («)
                       10.07 C                       Grain sorghum                                         76-22 H
                       10.07 D                       Canary seed ; other cereals                            0       (5 )
                       1 1.01 A '                    Wheat or . meslin flour                              120.44
                       1 1.01 B                      Rye flour                                            121-34
                        1 1 .02 A I a)               Durum wheat groats and meal                          194.39
                       11.02 A lb)                   Common wheat groats and meal                         129.53
                            Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transports! directly from that country to the
                            Community , the levy is reduced by ( MO u .a . / tonne .
                      (•') Where mai /.e originating in the ACP or OCT i * imported into the French overseas depart­
                            ments , the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./ tonne as provided for in Regulation ( FTC ) No 706»/ 76 .
                      (') Where mai / e originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into ( lie Community the levy is
                            reduced h \  I - SO u.a./ tonne .
                      ( 4 ) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported tiro the Community
                            the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                      T ) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey arc 'transported directly from that
                             country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0.50 u.a./ tonne .
                      (") The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly from that
                            country to the Community IN laid down in Council Regulation ( FTC ) No I ISO 77 and
                            Commission Regulation ( FTC ) No 2622/ 71