CELEX: 31973R2076
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2076/73 of the Commission of 31 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

1 . 8 . 73                                    Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 212/ 1
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                                                    (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2076/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                              of 31 July 1973
                              fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             munity market ; whereas the quality of the goods
COMMUNITIES,                                                               offered must also be taken into account, whether
                                                                           this quality corresponds to the standard quality
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                       fixed in Regulations ( EEC ) No 768 /69 (9) and
pean Economic Community ;                                                  ( EEC) No 1397/69 , or whether adjustments need to
                                                                           be made by applying the coefficients of equivalence
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                            provided for in Regulation No 158/67/EEC ( 10), as
 EEC ( 1 ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organization                     last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1637/71 ( n ),
of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regula­                       and in Regulation No 159/67/EEC ( 12) ;
tion (EEC) No 1346/73 ( 2), and in particular Article
                                                                           Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
13 (5 ) thereof ;                                                         the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                               other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
Committee ;                                                               the corrections necessitated by the differences in
                                                                          transport charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 ( 1 ) of                      Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
Regulation No 120/67/EEC stipulates that a levy                          tion No 120/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided
must be charged on imports of the products listed in                       for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Com­
Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation ; whereas                   mon Customs Tariff ;
the levy is equal for each product to the threshold
price less the cif price ;                                                Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for
                                                                         — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
wheat and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal ,
were fixed for the 1973/74 marketing year by Regula­                             relation to each other, at any given moment,
tions ( EEC) No 1397/69 (3 ), (EEC) No 1964/73 (4),                              within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange based
( EEC) No 1966/73 (5) and ( EEC) No 2006/73 (») ;                                on their effective parity ;
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                    — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
used to determine the levies, the Commission must                                the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation                            each of these currencies recorded for a given
156/67/EEC (7), as amended by Regulation ( EEC)                                  period, in relation to the Community currencies
No 1607/71 (8), and in particular the most favour­                               referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
able purchasing opportunities on the world market
among those which are most representative of the                          Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions
real trend of the market, account being taken in par­                     of the abovementioned Regulations that the levies
ticular of the need to prevent sudden variations                         should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regu­
likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Com­                        lation ; whereas these levies should be altered only
                                                                          where variations in the components used to calcu­
                                                                          late them would have the effect of increasing or
(»)  OJ   No  117, 19.6 . 1967, p . 2269/67.                              reducing them by 0-60 unit of account or more ;
(2)  OJ   No  L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
(*)  OJ   No  L 179, 21.7. 1969, p . 6 .
( 4) OJ   No  L 201 , 21 . 7 . 1973 , p . 3 .
( 5) OJ   No  L 201 , 21 . 7 . 1973 , p . 5 .                             ( ®)   OJ  No  L 100, 28 . 4 . 1969 , p . 8 .
(6)  OJ   No  L 205 , 26 . 7 . 1973 , p . 14 .                            ( 10 ) OJ  No  128 , 27 . 6 . 1967, p . 2536/67 .
(7)  OJ   No  128 , 27 . 6 . 1967, p. 2533/67.                            (»)    OJ  No  L 170, 29 . 7. 1971 , p . 20.
(8)  OJ   No  L 168 , 27.7 . 1971 , p . 16 .                              (")    OT  No  128 , 27 . 6 . 1967, p . 2542/67 .
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HA$ ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                             120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
                                                                          annexed to this Regulation .
                        Article 1                                                                           Article 2
The import levies to be charged on the products                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No                     1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
             Done at Brussels, 31 July 1973 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                 ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                    cr rye flour, groats and meal
                                    CCT
                                  heading                   Description of goods                      u. a. / ton
                                     No
                            10.01 A               Common wheat, and mesiin                         12-48
                            10.01 B               Durum wheat                                       o        C )(4 )
                            10.02                 Rye                                              34-99 (5 )
                            10.03                 Barley                                            0-79
                            10.04                 Oats                                             12-30
                            10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                    for sowing                                      5-05 («)(»)
                            10.07     A           Buckwheat                                         0
                            10.07     B           Millet                                           15-51
                            10.07     C           Grain sorghum                                    11-62
                            10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                        0        (4 )
                            11.01     A           Wheat or mesiin flour                            36-22
                            11.01     B           Rye flour                                        67-74
                            11.02     A Ia        Durum wheat groats and meal                       0
                            11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                     39-12
                            (') 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 is reduced by 6 11 . a . /metric ion .
                           ;') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                                the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 u . 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 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 .