CELEX: 31973R2255
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2255/73 of the Commission of 20 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 8 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 233/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2255 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 20 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
1 3 (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
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­                                     Article 1
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 21 August
     on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 20 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 20 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
                        1 0.0 L A                Common wheat, and mesiin                            0
                        lo.oi n                   Durum wheat                                        0        CK«)
                        10.02                     Rye                                                8-46 («)
                        10.03                     Barley                                             0
                        10.04                     Oats                                               0
                        i o 0 .5 n                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                    for sowing                                       o        (2 )( 3)
                         10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                          0
                         10.07 11                 Millet                                             0
                         10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                      0-74
                         10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                        o        (4 )
                         1 1 .0 1 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                         11.01 B                  Rye flour                                        30-59
                         1 1 . 02 A 1 a           Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                         1 1.02 A I b             Common wheat groats and meal                       0
                         (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                               that country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 050 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 it . a . /metric ton .
                         C) 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 .