CELEX: 31973R1492
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-07
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1492/73 of the Commission of 6 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 151 / 2                           Official Journal of the European Communities                            7. 6 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1492/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 6 June 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 ; whereas the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                          Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                   requested ;
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the            Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
 Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of            contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
 new Member States to the European Economic                       prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
 Community and the European Atomic Energy                         sion that the levies at present in force should be
 Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                 altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 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                                        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,                                        Article 2
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 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 6 June 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                     30-88
                     10.01 B             Durum wheat                                  31-19 m
                     10.02               Rye                                          47-07 (5)
                     10.03               Barley                                       14-04
                     10.04               Oats                                         14-43
                     10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                                 6-85 («)(»)
                     10.07 A             Buckwheat                                     0
                     10.07 B             Millet                                       21-70
                     10.07 C             Grain sorghum                                19-32
                     10.07 D             Canary seed ; other cereals                   0       (4)
                     11.01 A             Wheat or mesiin flour                        61-99
                     11.01 B             Rye flour                                    77-60
                     11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                  57-29
                    11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                 65-75
                    (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                        that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by (MO 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, tne 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 .
                    {•) 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 .