CELEX: 31973R0491
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 491/73 of the Commission of 21 February 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

22 . 2 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 49/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 491/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 21 February 1973
                            fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    on 13 February 1973 ;
pean Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                        contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
EEC i 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     offer prices and today's quotations known to the
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                Commission that the levies at present in force should
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty ( 3 ) on the Accession                  he altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
of new Member States to the European Economic
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and
                                                                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in particular Article 13 (5 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;                                                                                 Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals , wheat and                      The import levies to be charged on the products
rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed by                   listed in Article 1 ( a), ( b ) and ( c) of Regulation
 Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                        No 120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the
 amending Regulations ;                                               Table annexed to this Regulation.
"Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies     should be     calculated on the         basis of an                               Article 2
exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
which are floating or whose central rate differs from                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 February
the official parity, on the effective rate or the                     1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 21 February 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
H OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p . 2269/67.
 (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
 ( 3 ) OI No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 5 .
( 4 ) OJ No L 30, 1 . 2 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 21 February 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                   50-14
                      10.01 B                Durum wheat                                43-17 m
                      10.02                  Rye                                        35-44 (5)
                      10.03 -                Barley                                     25-42
                      10.04                  Oats                                      17-65
                      10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                36-41 (2)(3)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                    0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                      25-72
                       10.07     C           Grain sorghum                               31 Ό6
                       10.07     D          Canary seed; other cereals                    o       (4)
                       11.01     A           Wheat or mesiin flour                       88-95
                       11.01     B           Rye flour                                   59-99
                       11.02     AI a        Durum wheat groats and meal                 75-09
                       11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                95-34
                       t1) 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 is reduced by 6 u.a./metric ton.
                      (3) 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 .
                      (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.