CELEX: 31973R3359
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3359/73 of the Commission of 13 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

14 . 12 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 344/ 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 3359/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 13 December 1973
                  fixing the import 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
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       14
      on their effective parity ;                                     December 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 13 December 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967 , p. 2269 / 67 .
(-') OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
(J ) OJ No L 212, I. 8 . 1973 , p . I.
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 13 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                               on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 CCT
                                heading                    Description of goods                        ii . n . / ton
                                   No
                       10.01 A                    Common when I and meslin                          0
                       10.01 n                    Durum wheat                                       0           (')(<)
                       10.02                       Rye                                             11.12 (5)
                       10.03                      Barley                                            0
                       10.04                       Oats                                             0
                       10.05 B                     Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                     for sowing                                     0            C-)( 3 )
                       10.07 A                     Buckwheat                                        0
                       10.07 n                     Millet                                           0
                       10.07 C                     Grain sorghum                                    0
                       10.07 D                     Canary seed ; other cereals                      0           (4)
                       11.01 A                     Wheat or meslin flour                            0
                        I 1 . 01 B                 Rye flour                                       34.30
                        I 1.02 A I .               Durum w heal groats and meal                     0
                        I 1 . 02 A I I             Common wheat groats and meal                     0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                             that country to the Community , t lie levy is reduced by 050 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 n . a . / metric ton .
                       (:l ) Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported into
                             the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 u . a . /metric ton .
                       {') Where wheal and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly
                             from that country lo 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 1 234 /71 and Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2622/71 .