CELEX: 31973R1655
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1655/73 of the Commission of 22 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 166/6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            23 . 6 . 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 1655/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 22 June 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 13 (5) thereof ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                          Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                  The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,               in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :              67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in               annexed to this Regulation.
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
     within a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based                                   Article 2
     on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the              This Regulation shall enter into force on 23 June
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 22 June 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 /67 . .
 (2) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 (3) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
 b) OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 22 June 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                           30.55
                    10.01 B                Durum wheat                                        27.93 (*)(«)
                    10.02                  Rye                                                47.07 ( 5)
                    10.03                  Barley                                             24.98
                    10.04                  Oats                                               16.26
                    10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                        9.39 (2 )(3 )
                    10.07      A           Buckwheat                                            0
                    10.07      B           Millet                                             22.87
                    10.07      C           Grain sorghum                                      18.81
                    10.07      D           Canary seed ; other cereals                          0      n
                    11.01      A           Wheat or meslin flour                              62.13
                    11.01 B                Rye flour                                          77.60
                    11.02 A I a            Durum wheat groats and meal                        51.46
                    11.02 Alb              Common wheat groats and meal                        65.90
                    (') 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 .
                     (l) 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 .
                    (5) 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 .