CELEX: 31973R2501
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2501/73 of the Commission of 14 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

15 . 9 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 259/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2501 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 14 September 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 1 346/73 (2), and in particular Article                Commission that the levies at present in force should
 1 3 (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      15
      on their effective parity ;                                      September 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 14 September 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(') 0 | No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2269 / 67 .
(-) O'l No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 197.5, p . K.
(->) O'l No L 212, I. X. 197 5 , p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 14 September 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 mesiin                            0
                       10.01 B               Durum wheat                                        o        m
                       10.02                 Rye                                                0-98 (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                             0
                       10.04                 Oats                                               7-25
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                      12-20 (*)(8)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                          0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                             7-53
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                     12-11
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                        0         (*)
                       11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                         20-12
                       11.02 Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal                        o
                       11.02 Alb             Common wheat ,groats and meal                       0
                       (») 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 .
                        (5) 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 .