CELEX: 31973R2746
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2746/73 of the Commission of 10 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

11 . 10. 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 284/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2746/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 10 October 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 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
                                                                                         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 11 October
     on their effective parity ;                                  1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 10 October 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 ..
 (J) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 10 October 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 ineslin                            0
                       10.01 R                 Durum wheat                                         o       0 )(4 l
                      10.02                    Rye                                                 0-74 (5)
                       10.03                   Barley                                              0
                       10.04                    Oats                                               0
                      10.05 B                   Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                       8-06 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                          0
                       10.07 R                  Millet                                             7-36
                       10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                      5-51
                       10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                        0       ( 4)
                       11.01 A                  Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                        11.01 B                 Rye flour                                         19-78
                       11.02 A I a              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, tne 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 . a . /metric
                            ton .
                       (s) 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 .