CELEX: 31974R2524
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2524/74 of the Commission of 4 October 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal

5. 10 . 74                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 271 / 9
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2524/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 4 October 1974
                   fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        768 /69 ( 10) and (EEC) No 1397/69, or whether adjust­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          ments need to be made by applying the coefficients of
                                                                       equivalence provided for in Regulation No 158 /
                                                                       67/ EEC ( u ) as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  1637/71 ( 12), and in Regulation No 159/ 67/ EEC ( u) ;
 Economic Community ;
                                                                       Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
                                                                       the basis of the abovementioned elements , offers for
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                           other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
 67 /EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                   corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­               charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
 lation (EEC) No 1 996/74 (2), and in particular Article
 13 (5) thereof ;                                                      Whereas, in accordance with Article 18(1 ) of Regula­
                                                                       tion No 120 /67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for
                                                                       in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          Customs Tariff ;
 Committee ;
                                                                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 Whereas the first subparagraph of Article               13(1 ) of     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Regulation No 120/67/ EEC stipulates that a           levy must            relation to each other, at any given moment,
 be charged on imports of the products                  listed in           within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation          ; whereas            on their effective parity ;
 the levy is equal for each product to the              threshold      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 price less the cif price ;                                                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                            of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for wheat                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
 and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed                       in the previous subparagraph ;
 for the ' 1974/75 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)                 Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions of
 No 1397/69 (3), (EEC) N0 > 11 27/74 (4), (EEC) No                     the abovementioned Regulations that the levies
 1427/74 (5) and (EEC) No 1 670/74 (6) and amended by                  should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
 Regulation (EEC) No 25l8 /74 (7);                                     tion ; whereas these levies should be altered only
                                                                       where variations in the components used to calculate
                                                                       them would have the effect of increasing or reducing
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                  them by 0-60 unit of account or more,
used to determine the levies, the Commission must
 take into account the factors indicated in Regulation                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 No 156/67/EEC (8), as amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 1607/71 (9), and in particular the most favourable                                               Article 1
purchasing opportunities on the world market among                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed
those which are most representative of the real trend                  in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
of the market, account being taken in particular of the                67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
need to prevent sudden variations likely to cause                     annexed to this Regulation .
abnormal disturbances on the Community market ;
whereas the quality of the goods offered must also be                                                Article 2
taken into account, whether this quality corresponds                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 October
to the standard quality fixed in Regulations (EEC) No                  1974 .
(i) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
\i) OJ No L 209, 31 . 7. 1974, p. 1 .
(>) OJ  No   L 179,  21 . 7. 1969, p. 6 .
(♦) OJ  No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 15.
(J) OJ  No   L 151 , 8 . 6 . 1974, p. 1 .
(*) OJ  No   L 175,  29 . 6 . 1974, p. 71 .                           ( 10) OJ  No  L 100, 28 .    4. 1969,  p. 8 .
P) OJ No L 270, 5. 10. 1974, p. 1 .                                   (n)   OJ  No   128 , 27. 6 . 1967, p.  2536/67.
(«) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.                               ( 12) OJ  No  L 170, 29 .    7. 1971 , p. 20 .
(♦) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 16.                                 ( ,3) OJ  No   128 , 27. 6.  1967, p.  2542/67.
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 4 October 1974.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 4 October 1974 fixing the import 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                                       om
                         10.02                 Rye                                               0 (5)
                         10.03                Barley                                             0
                        10.04                 Oats                                               0
                         1 0.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize                     0 («)(»)
                                                 for sowing
                         10.07 A              Buckwheat                                          0
                         10.07 B              Millet                                             0
                         10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                      0
                         10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                        0 (4)
                         11.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                         11.01 B              Rye flour                                         17-38
                        1 1.02 Al a           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 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 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 1234/71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .