CELEX: 31973R2225
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2225/73 of the Commission of 16 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

17 . 8 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 229/3
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2225/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 16 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 ( ! ) 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
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 17 August
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 16 August 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2269 / 67 .
 I1) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
 (3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 16 August 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                              0
                        10.01 B               Durum wheat                                           o      (*)(')
                        10.02                 Rye                                                  9-21 (5)
                        10.03                 Barley                                               0
                        10.04                 Oats                                                  0
                        f 0 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                        o       m
                        10.07 A               Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B               Millet                                               0
                        10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        0
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                          0       (4)
                       11.01 A                Wheat or mesiin flour                                0
                       11.01 B                Rye flour                                           31-64
                       1 1.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                       1 1 . 02 A I 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 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 .
                     (') 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 .