CELEX: 31973R2545
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2545/73 of the Commission of 19 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

20 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 264/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2545 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 19 September 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            20
      on their effective parity ;                                      September 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 19 September 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(') O ) No 117, - 19 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2269/ 67 .
(-') O") No L 141 , 28 . 5. 197.5 , p. 8 .
(•') O ) No L 212 , 1 . 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 19 September 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       m
                       10.02                 Rye                                                 0        (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                              0
                       10.04                 Oats                                                4-59
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                         9-35 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                               8-29
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        9-07
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                          0       C)
                       11.01      A          Wheat or mesiin flour                                0
                       11.01      B          Rye flour                                          13-75
                       11.02      Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                       11.02      Alb        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 .
                       (J) 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 .
                       (s) 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 .