CELEX: 31973R3401
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3401/73 of the Commission of 18 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

19 . 12 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 349 / 9
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 3401 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 18 December 1973
                  fixing the import 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 (') 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 1 346/73 (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
                                                                                             Article 1
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
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    19
      on their effective parity ;                                    December 1 973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 18 December 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 .
(*) OJ No L 212 , 1.8 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 18 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                            on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 CCT
                               heading                   Description of goods                         ii . n . / ton
                                  No
                         10.01 A              Common wheat and meslin                               0
                         10.01 B               Durum wheat                                          0          (')(«)
                         10.02                 Rye                                                 11-12 (*)
                         10.03                 Barley                                               0
                         10.04                 Oats                                                 0
                         10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                         0           ( 2 )(3 )
                         10.07 A               Buckwheat                                            0
                         i 0.07 B              Millet                                               0
                         10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        0
                         10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                          0          («)
                         11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                                0
                         11.01 B               Rye flour                                           34-30
                          11.02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                          11.02 A I b          Common wheat groats and meal                         0
                         (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                              that country lo the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 II . 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 .
                         (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 n . 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 .