CELEX: 31973R2153
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2153/73 of the Commission of 7 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

8 . 8 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 220/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2153/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 7 August 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 1346/73 (2), and in particular Article              Commission that the levies at present in force should
13 (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 8 August
      on their effective parity ;                                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 7 August 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 .
 h) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 7 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                or rye flour, groats and meal
                               CCT
                              heading                  Description of goods                     II . a . / ton
                                 No
                         0.01 A              Common wheat, and meslin                        0
                         0.01 B              Durum wheat                                     0           HO
                         0.02                Rye                                            30·65 (5)
                         0.03                Barley                                          0
                         0.04                Oats                                           12·30
                         0 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                   3·19 (2)(3)
                         0.07 A              Buckwheat                                       0
                         0.07 B              Millet                                         15·51
                         0.07 C              Grain sorghum                                  11·62
                         0.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                     0          (4)
                          1.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                          15·98
                         1.01 B              Rye flour                                     61·66
                          1.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                     0
                         1.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                   17·26
                       (') 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 .