CELEX: 31978R2596
Language: en
Date: 1978-11-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2596/78 of 6 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

7. 11 . 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 313/ 1
                                                              I
                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2596/78
                                                   of 6 November 1978
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        of these currencies in relation to the Community
COMMUNITIES,                                                          currencies referred to in the previous subpara­
                                                                      graph ; whereas these exchange rates being those
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 recorded from 1 to 6 November 1978 ;
Economic Community,
                                                                  Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2510/78 to the
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                offer prices and today's quotations known to the
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by             Commission that the levies at present in force should
Regulation (EEC) No 1254/78 (2), and in particular                be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation,
Article 1 3 (5) thereof,
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2510/78 (3) and subsequent amending
                                                                                          Article 1
Regulations ;
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,               The import levies to be charged on products listed in
levies should be calculated on the following basis :              Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                  2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                  annexed to this Regulation .
     relation to each other at any given moment within
     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on                                       Article 2
     their effective parity ;
— for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the             This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 November
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each             1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 6 November 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
O OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No L 301 , 28 . 10. 1978 , p. 1 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 6 November 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                          on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                            (u.a./tonne)
                               CCT
                                                                  Description                              Levies
                              heading
                                No
                      10.01 A                   Common wheat, and meslin                                78.93
                       10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                            122.54 (1 ) (5)
                      10.02                     Rye                                                     82.04 (<■)
                      10.03                     Barley                                                  86.22
                      10.04                     Oats                                                    81.49
                       10.05 B                  Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                sowing                                                  79-09 (2) (3)
                       10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                                1 61
                       10.07 B                  Millet                                                  46.90 (4)
                       10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                           77.95 (4)
                       10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                              0      (*)
                       11.01 A                  Wheat or meslin flour                                  121.70
                       11.01 B                  Rye flour                                              125-23
                       11.02 A I a)             Durum wheat groats and meal                           200-84
                       11.02 A lb)              Common wheat groats and meal                           130.89
                      (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                           Community, the levy is reduced by 0.50 u.a./tonne.
                      (2 ) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                           ments, the levy is reduced by 6 u.a./tonne as provided for in Regulation ( EEC) No 706/76.
                      (3) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                           reduced by 1.50 u.a./tonne.
                      (4) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                           the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                      (5) Where durum 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./tonne .
                      (') 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 1180/ 77 and
                           Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .