CELEX: 31973R1682
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1682/73 of the Commission of 26 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

27 . 6 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 170 / 13
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1682/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 26 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 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 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 27 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, 26 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 26 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                         30-55
                        10.01 B               Durum wheat                                      27-04 H (4
                        10.02                 Rye                                              44-76 (5)
                        10.03                 Barley                                           24-98
                        10.04                 Oats                                              16-26
                        10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                      10-82 (2)(3
                         10.07    A           Buckwheat                                          0
                         10.07    B           Millet                                           22-87
                        10.07      C          Grain sorghum                                    15-72
                         10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                        o       (*)
                         11.01     A          Wheat or mesiin flour                             62-13
                         11.01    B           Rye flour                                        74-37
                         11.02     Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal                      50-86
                         11.02     Alb        Common wheat groats and meal                      65-90
                        (') 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 .
                        (>) 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 .
                         (s) 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 .