CELEX: 31978R1815
Language: en
Date: 1978-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1815/78 of 31 July 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal

No L 210/4                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 8 . 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1815/78
                                                       of 31 July 1978
                 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
COMMUNITIES,                                                      the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
Economic Community,                                               corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
                                                                  charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by           Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
Regulation (EEC) No 1 254/78 (2), and in particular               tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
Article 13 (5) thereof,                                           for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
                                                                  Customs Tariff ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee ,
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 ( 1 ) of             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 that a levy must be                   levies should be calculated on the following basis :
charged on imports of the products listed in Article 1
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
(a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation ; whereas the levy is
equal for each product to the threshold price less the                 relation to each other at any given moment within
cif price ;                                                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                       their effective parity ;
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for wheat
and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
for the 1978 /79 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)                   arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
No 2734/75 (3), (EEC) No 1255/78 (4), (EEC) No                         of these currencies recorded for a given period in
 1257/78 (5) and (EEC) No 1408 /78 (6);                                relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                  in the previous subparagraph ;
used to determine the levies, the Commission must
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation             Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions of
 No 1 56/67/ EEC (7), as last amended by Regulation                the abovementioned Regulations that the levies
(EEC) No 31 /76 (8), and in particular the most favou­             should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
 rable purchasing opportunities on the world market                tion ; whereas these levies should be altered only
among those which are most representative of the real             where variations in the components used to calculate
trend of the market, account being taken in particular             them would have the effect of increasing or reducing
of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to                 them by 0-60 unit of account or more,
 cause abnormal disturbances on the Community
 market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must
 also be taken into account, whether this quality corres­
 ponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulations
 (EEC) No 2731 /75 (9), as amended by Regulation                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 (EEC) No 1156/77(1°), and (EEC) No 2734/75, or
 whether adjustments need to be made by applying the
 coefficients of equivalence provided for in Regulation
 No 158 /67/EEC ( u ) as last amended by Regulation                                         Article 1
 (EEC) No 1637/71 ( 12 ), and in Regulation No 159 /
 67/ EEC ( 13) ;
                                                                   The import levies to be charged on the products listed
 (!) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation ( EEC) No
 (2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                              2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
 (3) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 34.
 (4) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 2.                               annexed to this Regulation .
 (5) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 5.
 (6) OJ No L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 28 .
 (7) OJ No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67.
 (8) OJ No L 5, 10 . 1 . 1976, p. 18 .                                                      Article 2
 (9) OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 22.
 ( 10) OJ No 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 11 .
 (") OJ No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2536/67.
 ( 12) OJ No L 170, 29. 7. 1971 , p. 20 .                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
 ( 13) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2542/67.                          1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 31 July 1978 .
                                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                                Vice-President
                                                                   ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on
                                              wheat or rye flour groats and meal
                                                                                                              (u.a./tonne)
                                CCT
                              heading                               Description                              Levies
                                 No
                       10.01 A                    Common wheat, and meslin                                82.80
                       10.01 B                    Durum wheat                                            123.46 (>)(»)
                       10.02                      Rye                                                     78.51 (6)
                       10.03                      Barley                                                  77-25
                       10.04                      Oats                                                    68.39
                       10.05 B                    Maize , other than hybrid maize for
                                                  sowing                                                  75.37 (') (3 )
                       10.07 A                    Buckwheat                                                0
                       10.07    B                 Millet                                                  65.73 («)
                       10.07    C                 Grain sorghum                                           74.93 (4)
                       10.07    D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                              0       (5 )
                       11.01    A                 Wheat or meslin flour                                  126.68
                      ' 11.01 B                   Rye flour                                              120.66
                       1 1 .02 A I a)             Durum wheat groats and meal                           202.14
                       11.02 A lb)                Common wheat groats and meal                           136.79
                        ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                           Community, the levy is reduced by 0.50 u.a./tonne .
                       2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                            ments, the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./ tonne as provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 706/76 .
                       3 ) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community, the levy is
                            reduced by 1 - 50 u.a./ tonne .
                       4 ) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Commu­
                           nity, the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                       5 ) Where durum 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./tonne .
                       ') The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey arid transported directly from that
                           country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1180/77 and
                           Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2622/ 71 .