CELEX: 31973R2614
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2614/73 of the Commission of 27 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

28 . 9 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 271 / 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2614/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 27 September 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 28
      on their effective parity ;                                   September 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 27 September 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 27 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                or rye flour, groats and meal
                               CCT
                              heading                  Description of goods                        u.a. /ton
                                No
                       10.01 A               Common wheat and meslin                             0
                       10.01 B               Durum wheat                                         0      (')(«)
                       10.02                 Rye                                                 0      («)
                       10.03                 Barley                                              0
                       10.04                 Oats                                                0.39
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                       8.53 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                              6.89
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       5.79
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0       (4)
                       11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                               0
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                          17.37
                       11.02 Ala             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 .
                        (l) 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 .
                        (>) 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 .
                        (5) 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 .