CELEX: 31974R0118
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 118/74 of the Commission of 17 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 15/2                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            18 . 1 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 118 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 17 January 1974
              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 ( J ) 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
 13(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 18 January
     on their effective parity ;                                    1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 January 1974.
                                                                              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 17 January 197*4 fixing the import 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 wheal and mesiin                          0
                        10.01 B                       Durum wheat                                      o        C )( 4 )
                        10.02                         Rye                                              o         (5)
                        10.0 )                        Ba r I e y                                       0
                        ; 0.01                        Chits                                            0
                        HUH I ',                      Maize oilier than hybrid maize
                                                         for sowing                                    0         (*)(^
                        10.07 A                       Buckwheat                                        0
                        i 0.07 n                      Millet                                           0
                        10.07 C                       Grain sorghum                                    0
                         10.07 n                      Canary seed ; other cereal 1·                    0         (*)
                        I 1.01 A                       Wheat or mesiin flour                           0
                         I 1 . 0 1 li                  Rye flour                                        0
                         I 1.02 A I ;i           i     Durum wheat groats and meal                     0
                         I 1.02 A I b                 Common wheat groats and meal                     0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                              ihat country lo the Coniinnniiy , t lie levy is reduced by 0-50 u . a . /metric ton
                        (*) Where maize originating in the A ASM and OCT is imported into the
                               French Overseas Departments , the levy in reduced by 6 ti . a . / metric ton .
                        (') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                               I lie Community , the levy is reduced by 1 n . 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 (MO ti . a . /metric
                               ton .
                        (*) The iinpoii levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                                from that country lo the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                                ( F.F.C ) No 1 234^7 1 and Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 2622 /71 .