CELEX: 31981R0443
Language: en
Date: 1981-02-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 443/81 of 20 February 1981 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 2. 81                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 48/ 11
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 443/81
                                                        of 20 February 1981
                    fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
  COMMUNITIES,                                                           their effective parity ;
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
  Economic Community,                                                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                         these currencies in relation to the Community
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           currencies referred to in the previous indent ;
^ 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­
  zation of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by            Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on
  the Act of Accession of Greece (2), and in particular              19 February 1981 ;
  Article 13 (5) thereof,                                            Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                  contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2035/80 to today's
  value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to             offer prices and quotations known to the Commission
  be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                 that the levies at present in force should be altered to
  tural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              the amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
  No 2543/73 (4), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Committee,
                                                                                             Article 1
  Whereas, the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
  flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­             The import levies to be charged on products listed in
  tion (EEC) No 2035/80 (■*) and subsequent amending                 Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
  Regulations ;                                                      2727/ 75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
  levies should be calculated on the following basis :                                       Article 2
  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in                This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 February
       relation to each other at any given moment within             1981 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 20 February 1981 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 Poul DALSAGER
                                                                           Member of the Commission
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                                                        ANNEX
            to die Commission Regulation of 20 February 1981 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                      on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                    (ECU/tonne)
                             CCT
                            heading                     Description                  Levies
                              No
                       10.01 A            Common wheat, and mesiin                 51-67
                       10.01 B            Durum wheat                              64-92 (') D
                       10.02              Rye                                      19-18 (6)
                       10.03              Barley                                   26-48
                       10.04              Oats                                       0
                       10.05 B            Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                          sowing                                   58-84 0 C)
                       10.07 A             Buckwheat                                 0
                       10.07 B            Millet                                     o    n
                       1 0.07 C           Grain sorghum                            47-56 (4)
                       10.07 D            Canary seed ; other cereals                o    O
                       11.01 A            Wheat or mesiin flour                    86-52
                       11.01 B            Rye flour                                41-06
                        11.02 Ala)         Durum wheat groats and meal            113-98
                       11.02 Alb)         Common wheat groats and meal             9212
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly
                           from that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-60
                           ECU/tonne.
                       (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 435/80, the levies are not
                           applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products
                           originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
                           'overseas countries and territories'.
                       (') Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the
                           Community the levy is reduced by 1-81 ECU/tonne.
                       (4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is
                           imported into the Community the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                       0 Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are trans­
                           ported directly from that country to the Community, the levy is
                           reduced by 0 60 ECU/tonne .
                       (6) 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 1 180/77 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                           2622/ 71 .