CELEX: 31973R3136
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3136/73 of the Commission of 20 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 11 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 320/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3136/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 20 November 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 21
     on their effective parity ;                                   November 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 20 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 20 November 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 meslin                             0
                        10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                         0          C )( 4 >
                        10.02                   Rye                                                10-56 ( 5)
                        10.01                   Bailey                                             10·13
                        10.04                   Oats                                                0
                       10.05 B                   Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                   for sowing                                        1·31 ( 2 )( 3 )
                        10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                          0
                        10.07 B                  Miller                                             6·24
                        10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                      0·65
                        10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                        0          (4)
                        11.01 A                  Wheat or meslin flour                              0
                        11.01 B                  Rye flour                                         33·52
                        I 1 . 02 A 1 a           Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                        11.02 A 1 h              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 11 . a . /metric ton .
                        (•') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                              the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 ti . 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 .