CELEX: 31974R0003
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3/74 of the Commission of 2 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

3 . 1 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 2/5
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 2 January 1974
               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 ( 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 3 January
      on theif effective parity ;                                 1974.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 2 January 1974.
                                                                             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 .
 I3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
         to the Commission Regulation of 2 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                         on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                             CCT
                            heading                    Description of goods                      u. a. / ion
                              No
                    10.01 A                   Common wheal and mesiin                          0
                    10.01 B                   Durum wheat                                      o       C )( 4 )
                    10.02                     Rye                                              9-09 (5 )
                    10.01                     Bailey                                           0
                    : 0.04                    Oafs                                             0
                    10.05 li                  Maize other ihan hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                    o        (*)(»)
                    10.07 A                   Buckwheat                                        0
                    i 0.07 B                  Millet                                           0
                     10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                    0
                     10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereal «                     0        (4>
                     11.01 A                  Wheat or mesiin flour                            0
                     11.01 B                  Rye flour                                       31-46
                     11.02 Λ I a              Durum wheal groats and meal                      0
                     1 1 . 02 A I Ii          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 A ASM 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 tt . 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 .
                     (') The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                           from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                           (FEC) No ) 234 /7 1 and Commission Regulation ( KF.C) No 2622/71 .