CELEX: 31973R1548
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1548/73 of the Commission of 12 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

13 . 6. 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 156/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1548/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 12 June 1973
                    fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                    requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the               contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession                  prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
ofnew Member States to the European Economic                        sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                            altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 13 (5) thereof ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                           Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                 in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 annexed to this Regulation .
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based                                    Article 2
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 June
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each               1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 12 June 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(>) OJ   No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ   No  L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3) OJ   No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
(4) OJ   No  L 30, 1 . 2. 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 12 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                              or rye flour, groats and meal
                             CCT
                            heading                   Description of goods               u.a. /ton
                               No
                       10.01 A             Common wheat, and meslin                  33.22
                       10.01 B             Durum wheat                               31.99 H (4)
                       10.02               Rye                                       48.63 (5)
                       10.03               Barley                                     18.52
                       10.04               Oats                                       18.33
                       10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                             for sowing                                9.98 (•)(•)
                       10.07 A             Buckwheat                                   0
                       10.07 B             Millet                                    22.87
                       10.07 C             Grain sorghum                             21.04
                       10.07 D             Canary seed ; other cereals                 0      («)
                       11.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                      65.27
                       11.01 B             Rye flour                                  79.79
                       11.02 A I a         Durum wheat groats and meal               58.53
                       11.02 Alb           Common wheat groats and meal              69.29
                      (») 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 is 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 u.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 .