CELEX: 31973R1788
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1788/73 of the Commission of 3 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

4. 7 . 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 181 /3
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1788/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 3 July 1973
                      fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                            \
Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                     requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/
67/EEC (1) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                   Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new Member States to the European Economic                           sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                             altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
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
Regulations ;                                                                               Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                  The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                 in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
      relation to each other, at any given moment,                   annexed to this Regulation.
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
      on their effective parity ;                                                           Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each               This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 July 1973.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 3 July 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(i ) OJ  No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67.
(*)  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 3 July 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                       30·04
                    10.01 B              Durum wheat                                    18·28 (*)(«)
                    10.02                Rye                                            39·25 (B)
                    10.03                Barley                                         11·97
                    10.04                Oats                                           14·74
                    10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                                  12·18 (*)(8)
                    10.07 A              Buckwheat                                       0
                    10.07 B              Millet                                         20·35
                    10.07     C          Grain sorghum                                  16·14
                    10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                     0      («)
                    11.01     A          Wheat or meslin flour                          60·82
                    11.01     B          Rye flour                                      66·65
                    11.02     AIa        Durum wheat groats and meal                    37·28
                    11.02 A I b          Common wheat groats and meal                   64·48
                    (') 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 .