CELEX: 31973R2944
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2944/73 of the Commission of 30 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 302/4                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           31 . 10 . 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2944/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 30 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 (') 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 31 October
      on their effective parity ;                                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 30 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 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 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 mesiin                          0
                        10.01 B                Durum wheat                                     0        (»)(«)
                        10.02                  Rye                                             9-51 (e)
                        10.03                  Bailey                                         10-50
                        10.04                  Oats                                            2-59
                        10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                   12-52 («)(»)
                        10.07 A                Buckwheat                                       0
                        10.07 B                Millet                                         11-06
                        10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                   8-14
                        10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                     o        n
                        1 1.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                           4-85
                        11.01 B                Rye flour                                      32-06
                        1 1.02 A 1 a           Durum wheat groats and meal                     0
                         1 1 .02 A 1 b         Common wheat groats and meal                    5-00
                       (') 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 .
                       (4) 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 .
                       (•) The imparl 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 .