CELEX: 31973R2422
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2422/73 of the Commission of 5 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

6 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 249/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2422/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 5 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 6 September
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 5 September 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') O ) No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 / 67 .
(-') O'j No L 141 , 28 . v 1973 , p . 8 .
(•') Oj No L 212, I. 8 . 1 973, p. 1 .
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                                                               ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 5 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals arid on wheat
                                                    or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                               heading                    Description of goods                        u. a. / toil
                                   No
                       10.01 A                 Common wlient, and mesiin                           0
                       10.01 B                 Durimi wheat                                        o        C )( 4 )
                       10.02                   Rye                                                11-66 (5)
                       10.03                   Barley                                              0
                       10.04                   Oats                                                8-37
                       10 05 n                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                   for sowing                                     10-84 (2)(3 )
                        10.07 Λ                Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                              2-48
                       10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                       9-80
                       10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        («)
                       I 1.01 Λ                Wheat or mesiin flou r                              0
                       I I.Ol B                Rye flour                                         34-26
                       1 1 . 02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                       I 1.02 A 1 b            Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                             char camicty (o ( lie 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 .
                       (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 . ti . 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 .