CELEX: 31973R1970
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1970/73 of the Commission of 20 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

21 . 7. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 201 / 13
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1970/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 20 July 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/
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 :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                                         Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­            The import levies to be charged on the products listed
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                  in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Regulations ;                                                     67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,               annexed to this Regulation.
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 21 July
     on their effective parity ;                                  1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 20 July. 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.
(J) OJ  No   L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5.
(") OJ  No   L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 20 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 mesiin                       25-49
                         10.01 B              Durum wheat                                      0-10 (*) («)
                         10.02                Rye                                            32-86 (5)
                         10.03                Barley                                           8-58
                         10.04                Oats                                           17-01
                         10 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                   10-94 ( 2)(3)
                         10.07 A              Buckwheat                                       0
                         10.07 B              Millet                                         23-93
                        10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                  19-19
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                     0      («)
                        11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                          54-45
                        11.01 B               Rye flour                                      57-71
                        11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                     0
                        11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                   57-60
                        (') 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 t<3n .
                        (') 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 .
                       (a) 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 .