CELEX: 31979R2605
Language: en
Date: 1979-11-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2605/79 of 26 November 1979 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

27 . 11 . 79                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 300/ 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2605/79
                                                       of 26 November 1979
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
COMMUNITIES,                                                             their effective parity ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Economic Community,                                                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                         of these currencies in relation to the Community
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                             currencies referred to in the previous indent ;
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on
Regulation (EEC) No 1547/79 (2), and in particular                   23 November 1979 ;
Article 1 3 (5) thereof,                                             Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                    contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1658/79 to today's
value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to               offer prices and quotations known to the Commission
be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                   that the levies at present in force should be altered to
tural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                the amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
No 2543/73 (4), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Committee,
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­               The import levies to be charged on products listed in
tion (EEC) No 1658/79 (5) and subsequent amending                    Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
Regulations ;                                                        2727/75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                                          Article 2
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                  This Regulation shall enter into force on             27
     relation to each other at any given moment within               November 1979 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 26 November 1979 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
(!) OJ  No  L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
(3) OJ  No   106, 30 . 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(<) OJ  No  L 263, 19 . 9. 1973, p. 1 .
(5) OJ  No  L 193, 1 . 8 . 1979, p. 5.
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                                                             ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 26 November 1979 fixing the import levies on cereals
                                      and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                       (ECU/tonne)
                              CCT
                                                              Description                               Levies
                             heading
                               No
                      10.01 A                 Common wheat, and meslin                              72-92
                      10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                           96.16 (1) (5)
                      10.02                   Rye                                                   57.39 (*)
                      10.03                   Barley                                                68-00
                      10.04                   Oats                                                  71.56
                      10.05 B                 Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                              sowing                                                80.07 (*) (3)
                      10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                               0
                      10.07    B              Millet                                                42-86 (<)
                      10.07    C              Grain sorghum                                         75-51 («)
                      10.07    D              Canary seed ; other cereals                             0 (J)
                      11.01    A              Wheat or meslin flour                               115.66
                      11.01    B              Rye flour                                             93-90
                      1 1 .02 A I a)          Durum wheat groats and meal                          162-22
                      11.02 A lb)             Common wheat groats and meal                         124-26
                       ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                          Community, the levy is reduced by 0.60 ECU/tonne.
                      2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                          ments the levy is reduced by 7.25 ECU/tonne as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                          706/76.
                      3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                          reduced by 1.81 ECU/tonne.
                      *) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                          the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                      5) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that
                          country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0.60 ECU/tonne.
                      ') 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 1180/77 and
                          Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .