CELEX: 31973R2173
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2173/73 of the Commission of 9 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

10 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 222/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2173/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 9 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 10 August
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 9 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 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 9 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                                               28-02 (5 )
                      10.03                  Barley                                              0
                      10.04                  Oats                                                1-52
                      10 05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                        0       ( 2 )(3)
                      10.07 A                Buckwheat                                           0
                      10.07 B                Millet                                              9-90
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       1-17
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0       («)
                      11.01 A                Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                         57-98
                       11.02 Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                       11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                           that country u > the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 li . 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 .
                      (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 1234/7 J and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .