CELEX: 31973R0544
Language: en
Date: 1973-02-27 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 544/73 of the Commission of 26 February 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

27. 2. 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 54/1
                                                             I
                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 544/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 26 February 1973
                         fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               on 13 February 1973 ;
pean Economic Community;
                                                                 Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/                   contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  offer prices and today's quotations known to the
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the            Commission that the levies at present in force should
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession               be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation;
of neto Member States to the European Economic
Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in particular Article 13 (5 ) thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and                  The import levies to be charged on the products
rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed by              listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                   No 120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the
amending Regulations ;                                           Table annexed to this Regulation.
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the basis of an                                         Article 2
exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
which are floating or whose central rate differs from           This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 February
the official parity, on the effective rate or the                1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 26 February 1973 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (») OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(l) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
(8) Of No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4) Oj No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1.
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                                                           ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 26 February 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                    47-33
                      10.01 B               Durum wheat                                 41-93 (1)(4)
                      10.02                 Rye                                         35-44 (5)
                      10.03                 Barley                                      26-25
                      10.04                 Oats                                        17-65
                      10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                               36-41 (2)(8)
                      10.07 A               Buckwheat                                    0
                      10.07 B               Millet                                      26-54
                      10.07 C               Grain sorghum                               31-06
                      10.07 D               Canary seed; other cereals                   0 (4)
                      11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                       85-01
                      11.01 B               Rye flour                                   59-99
                      11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                 73-82
                      11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                91-09
                      (') '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 AASM and OCT is imported into the
                          French Overseas Departments, the levy is 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 .
                     (') 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 .