CELEX: 31973R2715
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2715/73 of the Commission of 5 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

6. 10 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 280/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 2715/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 5 October 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 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 6 October
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 5 October 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 / 67 .
 (-') OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973 , p . 8 .
 (3 ) OJ No L 212, I. 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 5 October 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         0 )(4)
                      10.02                Rye                                                3-75 (5)
                      10.03                Barley                                             0
                      10.04                 Oats                                              0
                      10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                     13-18 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A              Buckwheat                                         0
                       10.07 B              Millet                                            9-24
                       10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                     7-02
                       10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                       o         n
                       11.01 A              Wheat or meslin flour                             o
                       11.01 B              Rye flour                                        23-99
                       11.02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                       0
                       11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                      0
                       C) Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transportée! 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 .
                       (5) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                            from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Régulation
                            (EEQ No 1234/71 and Commission Régulation ( EEC) No 2622/71 .