CELEX: 31973R3074
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3074/73 of the Commission of 14 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

15. 11 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 314/3
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3074/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 14 November 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/                       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) JSIo 1346/73 (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
                                                                                         Article 1
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
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            15
     on their effective parity ;                                  November 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 14 November 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 14 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                   or rye flour, groats and meal
                                   i
                              heading                    Description of goods                        n . .1 . /ton
                                 No
                        1 0.0 I A              Common wheat and meslin                             0
                        10.0 1 B               Durum wheat                                         0          (')(«)
                        10.02                  Rye                                                 9·77 (5)
                        10.03                  Barley                                             10·13
                        10.04                  Oats                                                0
                       10.05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                       4·08 (2 )(s)
                       10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                              6·24
                       10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                       0·65
                       10.07 n                 Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        <«)
                       11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                               0
                       11.01 B                 Rye flour                                         32·42
                       1 1.02 A I n            Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                       I I m A i h             Common wheat Croats 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 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 arc transported directly
                           from that country lo 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 .