CELEX: 31973R3125
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3125/73 of the Commission of 19 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

20 . 11 . 73                           Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 319/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3125/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 19 November 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 1 346/73 (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 20
     on their effective parity ;                                  November 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 19 November 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 19 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                or rye flour, groats and meal
                                CCT
                              heading                    Description of goods                       n . a . / ton
                                  No
                       10.01 A               Common wheat and meslin                              0
                       10.01 B               Durum wheat                                          0         (')(«)
                       10.02                 Rye                                                 10·56 ( 5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                              10·93
                        10.04                 Oats                                                0
                       10.05 IS               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                        1·31 ( 2)(3)
                       10.07 A                Buckwheat                                           0
                        10.07 B               Millet                                              6·24
                        10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       0·65
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0         (*)
                        11.0 1 A              Wheat or meslin flour                               0
                        11.01 B               Rye flour                                          33·52
                        1 1.02 A I a          Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                        11.02 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 , 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 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 .