CELEX: 31975R2703
Language: en
Date: 1975-10-24
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2703/75 of the Commission of 23 October 1975 fixing the export levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal

No L 273/36                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             24. 10. 75
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2703/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 23 October 1975
               fixing the export levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas the situation described above can be said to
COMMUNITIES,                                                       exist at the present time ; whereas to ensure supplies
                                                                   in the Community an export levy should be intro­
                                                                   duced for common wheat, rye flour, barley, rye, oats,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              maize, durum wheat groats and meal ;
Economic Community ;
                                                                   Whereas the threshold prices for the 1 975/76
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                        marketing year were fixed by Council Regulation
67/ EEC (•) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                (EEC) No 1173/75 (5) of 28 April 1975 ;
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 665/75 (2) ;
                                                                   Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1968/73
                                                                   specifies that when the export levy is being fixed
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       account must be taken of the existing situation and
 1968 /73 (3) of 19 July 1973 laying down general rules            the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities
to be applied in the event of the cereals market being             of cereals on the Community market on the one hand
disturbed, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                  and prices for cereals and cereal products on the word
86/75 (4) and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ;                market on the other ; whereas the same article
                                                                    provides that it is also important to ensure equili­
                                                                   brium and the natural development of prices and
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       trade on cereal markets and furthermore, to take into
Committee ;
                                                                   account the economic aspect of the proposed exports
                                                                    and the need to avoid disturbances on the Commu­
                                                                    nity market ;
Whereas Article 19 of Regulation No 120/67/ EEC
provides that measures may be taken when the quota­
tions or prices on the world market for one or more
 products reach the level of Community prices ;                     Whereas for the products listed in Article 1 (c) of
whereas that situation is likely to continue and to dete­           Regulation No 120/67/EEC the specific factors set out
 riorate, thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb              in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1968/73 must
                                                                    also be taken into account :
 the Community market ;
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1968/73 specifies that                 Whereas the export levy may be varied if the world
 the quotations or prices on the world market shall be              market situation or the specific requirements of
 regarded as having reached the level of Community                  certain markets make this necessary ;
 prices when they approach or exceed the threshold
 price ; whereas the continuation and the deterioration
 of that situation may be regarded as being likely to               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the
 continue where an imbalance between supply and                     following should be used to calculate the levies :
 demand is established and where this imbalance is
 likely to persist, having regard to foreseeable produc­
 tion and market price trends ;                                     — for currencies the exchange rates for which are
                                                                         kept at any given moment within a band of
                                                                         2-25 % , at a conversion rate based on their actual
 Whereas the high level of prices in international trade                 parity ;
 could impede importation of common wheat, rye
 flour, barley, rye, oats, maize, durum wheat groats and            -— for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
  meal into the Community or provoke exportation                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each
  from the Community ;                                                   of these currencies against the Community curren­
                                                                         cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
 (')  OJ No  117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.                               specified period ;
 (2)  OJ No  L 72, 20. 3. 1975, p. 14.
  (3) OJ No  L 201 , 21 . 7. 1973, p. 10.
  (4) OJ No  L 11 , 16. 1 . 1975, p. 2.                              (5) OJ No L 117, 7. 5. 1975, p. 6.
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Whereas it follows from applying the rules outlined         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
above to the present situation on the market in                                    Article 1
cereals, and in particular to quotations or prices for
these products within the Community and on the              The export levies referred to in the first indent of
world market, that the export levies, should be fixed       Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1968/73 are
as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;                  hereby fixed at the amounts shown in the Annex, for
                                                            the products listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regu­
                                                            lation No 120/67/EEC .
                                                                                   Article 2
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­           This Regulation shall enter into force on 24 October
ment Committee for Cereals,                                 1975.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Memoer
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 23 October 1975.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                  Member of the Commission
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                                                                        ANNEX
                    to the Commission Regulation of 23 October 1975 fixing the export levies on cereals and
                                                       on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
   CCT heading                                                                                                                        u. «. /metric ton
         No                                                             Description
ex 10.01 A                   Common wheat and meslin, excluding officially certified seeds (')                                                7-00
ex 10.01 B                   Durum wheat, excluding officially certified seeds (*)
ex 10.02                     Rye, excluding officially certified seeds (*)                                                                     0
ex 10.03                     Barley, excluding officially certified seeds (')                                                                10-00
ex 10.04                     Oats, excluding officially certified seeds (')                                                                    0
      10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing                                                                        10-00
      10.07 B                Millet
      10.07 C                Grain sorghum
ex 11.01 A                   Wheat flour
      11.01 B                Rye flour
      11.02 A I a )          Durum wheat groats and meal                                                                                      —
      11.02 A lb)            Common wheat groats and meal
 (') Officially certified seeds are understood to be those seeds contained in the packages officially sealed and officially labelled as 'basic seed',
     'certified seed, first generation', 'certified seed , second generation ' conforming to the provisions of the Council Directive of 14 June 1966
     on the marketing of cereal seed (OJ No 125, 11 . 7. 1966. p. 2309/66) and of the Council Decision of 26       March 1973 on the equivalence of
     seed produced in Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom ( OJ No L 106, 20 . 4 . 1973 , p. 12).