CELEX: 31973R1573
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1573/73 of the Commission of 14 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

15 . 6 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 158/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 1573/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 14 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 ( !) of 13 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                    prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
 of 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 1 (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 rate 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 15 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, 14 June 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(>) OJ    No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67.
(2) 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. 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 14 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 meslin                   30·55
                        10.01 B              Durum wheat                                28·02 i 1 )?)
                        10.02                Rye                                        48·63 ( 5)
                        10.03                Barley                                     16·96
                       10.04                 Oats                                       18·33
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                               8·68 (!)(s)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                   0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                    22·87
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                              21·04
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                 o      n
                       11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                      61·53
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                  79·79
                       11.02 Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal               52·38
                       11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal              65·25
                       (') 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 is seduced 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.
                      (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 1234/71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .