CELEX: 31974R0051
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-10
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 51/74 of the Commission of 9 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

10 . 1 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 8 / 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 51 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 9 January 1974
                  fixing the import 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
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­                                     Article 1
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 10 January
     on their effective parity ;                                    1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 9 January 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
 (•) OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67 .
 (2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973, p. 8 .
 (3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 9 January 1974 fixing the import 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 find mesiin                             0
                    10.01 B               Durum wheat                                          0       (')(«)
                    10.02                 Rye                                                  0        (8)
                    10.0.3                Barley                                               0
                    : 0.04                 Oats                                                0
                    10.0.5 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                             for sowing                                        0        ( 2 )(3)
                    10.07 Λ                Buckwheat                                           0
                    10.07 B                Millet                                              0
                    10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                       0
                     10.07 D               Canary seêd ; other cereals                         o       (*)
                    1 1.01 Λ               Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                     I I.Ol B              Rye flour                                            3-78
                     11.02 A I ¡i          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 lo 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 .
                    («) Where wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly
                         from that country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 it . a . /ntetric
                         ton .
                    (■) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and iranspoiicd directly
                          front tnat country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                         (EEC) No 1234 /71 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .