CELEX: 31980R0207
Language: en
Date: 1980-02-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 207/80 of 31 January 1980 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 207/80
                                                      of 31 January 1980
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
COMMUNITIES,                                                           their effective parity ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Economic Community,                                                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                       of these currencies in relation to the Community
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           currencies referred to in the previous indent ;
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by              Whereas these exchange rates being those recorded on
Regulation (EEC) No 1547/79 (2), and in particular                 30 January 1980 ;
Article 1 3 (5) thereof,                                           Whereas it follows from applying the detailed rules
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 on the                  contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1658/79 to today's
value of the unit of account and the exchange rates to             offer prices and quotations known to the Commission
be applied for the purposes of the common agricul­                 that the levies at present in force should be altered to
tural policy (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              the amounts set out in the Annex hereto,
No 2543/73 (4), and in particular Article 3 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Committee,
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas, the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­             The import levies to be charged on products listed in
tion (EEC) No 1658/79 (5) and subsequent amending                  Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
Regulations ;                                                      2727/75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                                        Article 2
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February
      relation to each other at any given moment within            1980 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 31 January 1980.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(») OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(i) OJ No L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
(3) OJ No 106, 30 . 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(«) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1973, p. 1 .
(5) OJ No L 193, 1 . 8 . 1979, p. 5.
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                                                            ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1980 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                       on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                                                                                      (ECU/tonne)
                            CCT
                           heading                           Description                               Levies
                             No
                     10.01 A                 Common wheat, and meslin                             82-39
                     10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                         112-87 (>)(5)
                     10.02                   Rye                                                  68-60 («)
                     10.03                   Barley                                               74-06
                     10.04                  Oats                                                  74-26
                     10.05 B                Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                            sowing                                                98-50 (2) (3)
                     10.07   A               Buckwheat                                              5-68
                     10.07   B              Millet                                                45-34 (<)
                     10.07   C              Grain sorghum                                         9 1 -99 (4)
                     10.07   D              Canary seed ; other cereals                             0      (*)
                     11.01   A              Wheat or meslin flour                                129-47
                     11.01   B              Rye flour                                            110-14
                     11.02 A I a)            Durum wheat groats and meal                         189-16
                     11.02 A lb)            Common wheat groats and meal                         138-53
                     ') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                        Community, the levy is reduced by 0-60 ECU/tonne .
                     2) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the French overseas depart­
                        ments the levy is reduced by 7-25 ECU/tonne as provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                        706/76 .
                     J) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                        reduced by 1-81 ECU/tonne .
                     *) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                        the levy is reduced by 50 % .
                     ') Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that
                        country to the Community, the levy is reduced by 0-60 ECU/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 1 1 80/77 and
                        Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2622/71 .