CELEX: 31973R2458
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2458/73 of the Commission of 10 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

11 . 9 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 254/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2458 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 10 September 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 (') 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
13 (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    11
      on their effective parity ;                                   September 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 10 September 1973 .
                                                                               For the Com miss ion
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967 , p . 2269/ 67 .
O 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 10 September 1973 fixing the 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 Ii               Durum wheat                                        0          (*)(«)
                        10.02                  Rye                                               10·31 (5)
                        10.03                  Barley                                             0
                        10.04                  Oats                                               7·99
                        1 0 05 Ii              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                      9·30 (2)(8)
                        10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                        10.07 B                Millet                                             4-79
                        10.07      C           Grain sorghum                                     10·57
                        10.07      D           Canary seed other cereals                          0          (4)
                        11.01       A          Wheat or meslin flour                              0
                        11.01      B           Rye flour                                         33·18
                        11.02       A I a      Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                        1 1 . 02    A Ib       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 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 it . 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 .