CELEX: 31974R0228
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 228/74 of the Commission of 29 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

30 . 1 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 26/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 228/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 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 (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
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 30 January
      on their effective parity ;                                  1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 29 January 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
( 1 ) 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 29 January 1974 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 wheat and mesiin                               0
                     10.01 B                Durum wheat                                           o        ('H4 )
                     10.02                  Rye                                                   o        ( 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                                         0
                     10.07 D                 Canary seed ; other cereals                          0        (4 )
                      1-1.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                                0
                     11.01 B                 Rye flour                                            0
                      11.02 Ala              Durum wheat groats and meal                          0
                      11.02 Alb              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 .
                     (4) 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 .
                     (3) Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into ,
                         the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 u . a . / metric ton .
                     (J) 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 .
                     (5) 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 .