CELEX: 31973R2241
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2241/73 of the Commission of 17 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

18 . 8 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 230/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2241 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 17 August 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 (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
                                                                                           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 18 August
     on their effective parity ;                                    1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 17 August 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 17 August 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                               or rye flour, groats and meal
                              CCT
                             heading                   Description of goods                     it . a . / ton
                               No
                       10.01 A              Common wheat, and meslin                         0
                      10.01 B                Durum wheat                                     0           m
                       10.02                 Rye                                             9·21 (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                          0
                       10.04                 Oats                                            0
                       10 05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                     0          (2)(8)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                        0
                       10.07    B            Millet                                           0
                       10.07    C            Grain sorghum                                    0·74
                       10.07    D            Canary seed ; other cereals                      0           (4)
                       11.01    A            Wheat or meslin flour                            0
                        11.01   B            Rye flour                                      31·64
                        1 1.02 A I a         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 .
                       (") 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 .