CELEX: 31973R2134
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2134/73 of the Commission of 3 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

4 . 8 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 216 / 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION ( EEC) No 2134/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 3 August 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 ( 1 ) 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 1346/73 (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 4 August
     on their effective parity ;                                   1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 3 August 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 3 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                              or rye flour, groats and meal
                             CCT
                                                     Description of goods                         u . a . / ton
                            heading
                              No
                      10.01 A              Common wheat, and meslin                             5·97
                      10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          o         m
                      10.02                Rye                                                32·10 (5)
                      10.03                Barley                                               0
                      10.04                Oats                                                12·30
                      10 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                             for sowing                                         5·78 (2 )( 3)
                       10.07 A             Buckwheat                                            0
                      10.07 B              Millet                                              15·51
                      10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                       11·62
                      10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                          0         (4 )
                      11.01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                              27·11
                       11.01 B             Rye flour                                           63·69
                       11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                      11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                       29·28
                      (') 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 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 .