CELEX: 31973R1797
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-05
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1797/73 of the Commission of 4 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 183/4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             5 . 7. 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1797/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 4 July 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 (1) 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 of            prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new 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 1 3 (5) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending
Regulations ;                                                                           Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,              The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should' be calculated on the following basis :            in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in              67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                annexed to this Regulation .
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                                        Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each            This Regulation shall enter into force on 5 July 1973.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 July 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 .
 {*) OJ No L. 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 4 July 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                         31.46
                      10.01 B              Durum wheat                                       18.28 (*)(«)
                      10.02                Rye                                              41.10 («)
                      10.03                Barley                                            14.70
                      10.04                Oats                                              16.80
                      10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid malze
                                             for sowing                                      12.18 (2)(8)
                      10.07     A          Buckwheat                                          0
                      10.07     B          Millet                                           23.22
                      10.07     C          Grain sorghum                                     16.14
                      10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                        0      («)
                      11.01     A          Wheat or meslin flour                             62.80
                      11.01    B           Rye flour                                        69.24
                      11.02     Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal                      37.99
                      11.02     Alb        Common wheat groats and meal                     66.62
                      (') 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.
                     (4) 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 .