CELEX: 31973R3391
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3391/73 of the Commission of 17 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

18 . 12 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 348 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3391 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 17 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
 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    18
      on their effective parity ;                                    December 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 17 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 .
(3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 17 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                          on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                              heading                    Description of goods                       u.a . /( on
                                 No
                       10.01 A                Common wheat and meslin                             0
                       10.01 II               Durum wheat                                         o       on
                       10.02                  Rye                                                11·12 (5)
                       10.03                  Barley                                              0
                       10.04                  Oats                                                0
                       10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                       0        ( l)(»)
                       10.07 A                Buckwheat                                           0
                       i0.07 B                Millet                                              0
                       10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                       0
                       10.07 r>               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        (4?
                       1 1 . 01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                              0
                        II . 01 B              Rye flour                                         34·30
                        11.02 A I .i           Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                        11.02 A ! h            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 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 it . 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 u . a . /metric
                            Ion .
                       (') The import levy charged oil 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 .