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Date: 1974-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10 January 1974 fixing the minimum export levy for the invitation to tender issued under Regulation (EEC) No 3281/73

No L 13 / 30                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                    16 . 1 . 74
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                                                         COMMISSION
                                                        COMMISSION DECISION
                                                             of 10 January 1974
                 fixing the minimum export levy for the invitation to tender issued under Regula­
                                                          tion ( EEC) No 3281 / 73
                                                                 (74/ 11 / EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                               Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3130/73
COMMUNITIES,                                                                 allows the Commission, in accordance with the proce­
                                                                             dure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation No 120/
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                        67/ EEC, to fix a minimum export levy ; whereas,
Economic Community ;                                                         when this minimum levy is being fixed, account must
                                                                             be taken of the criteria set out in Article 3 ( 1 ) (b) and
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120 /                                 (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 1968 /73 , namely :
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­
lation ( EEC) No 1346/73 0 ;
                                                                             — the objectives of the common organization of the
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC), No                                     market in cereals, namely to balance that market
 1 968 /73 (3 ) of 19 July 1973 laying down general rules                          both as regards supplies and as regards trade, and
to be applied in the event of the cereals market being
disturbed, as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No
2632/73 (4), and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ;                       — the economic aspect of the exports ;
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3130/ 73 (5) of 16 November 1973 establishing the
conditions for the application of the system of                              Whereas paragraph 2 of the Article referred to above
tendering for export levies on cereals, and in parti­                         stipulates that the award is made to the tenderer or
 cular Article 5 ( 1 ) thereof ;                                              tenderers whose tenders quote a levy equal to or
                                                                              higher than the minimum ;
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export levy on
 common wheat was issued under Commission Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 3281 / 73 (6) of 5 December 1973 ;
 whereas the notice of invitation to tender ( 7) associated                   Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
 with this Regulation specified that the total tonnage                        present situation on the market for the cereal in ques­
 for which the export levy could be fixed was approxi­                        tion that the minimum export levy should be fixed as
 mately 200 000 metric tons ;                                                 shown in Article 1 ; whereas the tonnage to which
                                                                              this minimum applies is 45 000 tons ;
   ') OJ No    117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269 / 67 .
  2)  OJ No    141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
  J)  OJ No    L 201 , 21 . 7 . 1973 , p . 40 .
  -») OJ No    L 272, 29 . 9 . 1973 , p . 18 .                                Whereas the Management Committee for Cereals has
  5)  OJ No    L 319 , 20 . 11 . 1973 , p . 10 .
  k)  OJ No    L 337 , 6 . 12 . 1973 , p . 17 .                                not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
   ?) OJ No    C 106, 6 . 12 . 1973 , p . 49 .                                 its Chairman ,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                Done at Brussels, 10 January 1974.
                      Article 1
The minimum export levy fixed on the basis of
tenders submitted for 10 January 1974 is hereby fixed
at 72 units of account per metric ton .                                            For the Commission
                      Article 2                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
This Decision is addressed to the Member States .                              Member of the Commission