CELEX: 31973R1610
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1610/73 of the Commission of 18 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

19 . 6 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 162/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1610/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 18 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 (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 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 19 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, 18 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 18 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                              or rye flour, groats and meal
                             CCT
                            beading                   Description of goods                u.a. / ton
                               No
                      10.01 A              Common wheat, and meslin                  30.55
                      10.01 B              Durum wheat                               28-02
                      10.02                Rye                                       48.63 (5)
                      10.03                Barley                                    22.42
                      10.04                Oats                                      19.11
                      10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                             for sowing                              13.97 (2)(3 )
                      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                     61.53
                       11.01 B             Rye flour                                 79.79
                       11.02 A I a         Durum wheat groats and meal               52.38
                      11.02 A lb           Common wheat groats and meal              65.25
                      (') 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.
                      (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 .