CELEX: 31978R0342
Language: en
Date: 1978-02-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 342/78 of 20 February 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal

No L 49/4                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           21 . 2 . 78
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 342/78
                                                     of 20 February 1978
                   fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     offer prices and today s quotations known to the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      Commission that the levies at present in force should
                                                                  be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
                                                                                          Article 1
 tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 2560/77 (2), and in particular               The import levies to be charged on products listed in
 Article 1 3 (5) thereof,                                         Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
 Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye              2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­           annexed to this Regulation .
 tion (EEC) No 1 729/77 (3) and subsequent amending
 Regulations ;                                                                            Article 2
Whereas it follows from applying the provisions                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 February
 contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1729/77 to the                   1978 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 20 February 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 303, 28 . 11 . 1977, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 191 , 30 . 7. 1977, p. 5.
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                                                               ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 20 February 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                        on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
                                                                                                          (u.a./tonne)
                             CCT
                                                                Description                               Levies
                            heading
                              No
                      10.01 A                  Common wheat, and meslin                               87.05
                      10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                           115.20 ( 1)(5)
                      10.02                   Rye                                                     75.72 (6)
                      10.03                    Barley                                                 79-66
                      10.04                   Oats                                                    73.59
                      10.05 B                 Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                              sowing                                                  75.80 (2) (3)
                      10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                                0
                      10.07 B                 Millet                                                  78-47 (^)
                      10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                           81.48 (♦)
                      10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                              0     (5)
                      11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                                 133.51
                      11.01 B                 Rye flour                                             117.63
                      11.02 A I a)             Durum wheat groats and meal                           189.57
                      11.02 A lb)              Common wheat groats and meal                          143.14
                      ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported    directly from that country to the
                         Community, the levy is reduced by 0.50 u.a./tonne .
                      2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported      into the French overseas depart­
                         ments, the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./tonne as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 706/76.
                      3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported       into the Community the levy is
                         reduced by 1 -50 u.a./tonne.
                      4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                         the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                      5) Where durum 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./ tonne .
                      ') 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 1180/77 and
                         Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .