CELEX: 31973R3178
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-24
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3178/73 of the Commission of 23 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

24. 11 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 323/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3178 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 23 November 1973
                  fixing the import 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 (!) 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 24
     on their effective parity ;                                   November 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 23 November 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 23 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                           on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                               heading                    Description of goods                      ii . a . /ton
                                 No
                        10.01 A                Common wheat and meslin                            0
                        10.01 B                Durum wheat                                        0          ( l )( 4 )
                        10.02                  Rye                                              14.12 (5 )
                        10.03                  Barley                                             4.59
                        10.04                  Oats                                               0
                        10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                      0           (2)( 3)
                        10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                        10.07 B                Millet                                             3.86
                        10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                      0
                        10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                        0           (4)
                        11.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                              0
                        11.01 B                Rye flour                                        38.51
                        1 1 .02 A 1 a          Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                         II .02 A 1 b          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 A ASM 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 .