CELEX: 31973R3289
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-07 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3289/73 of the Commission of 6 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 338 /4                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            7. 12. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3289/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 6 December 1973
                  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 (1 ) 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
1 3 (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 7 December
     on their effective parity ;                                  1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 December 1973 .
                                                                             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 6 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                            on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 CCT
                               heading                    Description of goods                         ii . a . /ton
                                  No
                       10.01 A                 Common wheat and meslin                               0
                       10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                           0          ('){«)
                       10.02                   Rye                                                  12.62 (5)
                       10.03                   Barley                                                0
                       10.04                   Oats                                                  0
                       10.05 It                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                         0          («)(«)
                       10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                             0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                                2.73
                        10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                         0
                        10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                          0          («)
                        11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                                0
                        11.01 B                 Rye flour                                           36.40
                        1 1 . 02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                        11.02 A 1 b             Common wheat groats and meal                         0
                       (') 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 in reduced by 6 it . a . /metric ton .
                       {') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                              the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 it . 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 .
                       (») The import levy charged on rye produced ill 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 .