CELEX: 31973R2266
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-22
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2266/73 of the Commission of 21 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

22. 8 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 234/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 2266/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 21 August 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) No 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 22 August
     on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 August 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 21 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                or rye flour, groats and meal
                              CCT
                             heading                   Description of goods                          u. a. / ton
                                 No
                                                                                                   I
                        10.01 A              Common wheat, and mesiin                             0
                        10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          0       (»)(«)
                        10.02                Rye                                                  8-46 (5)
                        10.03                Barley                                               0
                        10.04                Oats                                                 0
                        10 05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                         0        («)(»)
                        10.07 A              Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B              Millet                                               0
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       2-61
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        («)
                       11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                          30-59
                       11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                       1 1.02 A I 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 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 U.J ./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 .