CELEX: 31979R1658
Language: en
Date: 1979-08-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1658/79 of 31 July 1979 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

1 . 8 . 79                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 193/5
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1658/79
                                                          of 31 July 1979
                  fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       (EEC) No 11 56/77 (» °), and (EEC) No 2734/75, or
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        whether adjustments need to be made by applying the
                                                                     coefficients of equivalence provided for in Regulation
                                                                     No 158/67/EEC (n) as last amended by Regulation
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               (EEC) No 1637/71 ( 12), and in Regulation No 159/
 Economic Community,                                                 67/EEC (») ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                     Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
                                                                     the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
zation of the market in cereals (*), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1 547/79 (2), and in particular                  other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
Article 13 (5) thereof,                                              corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
                                                                     charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                           Whereas, in accordance with Article 18 ( 1 ) of Regula­
                                                                     tion (EEC) No 2727/75, the nomenclature provided
                                                                     for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 ( 1 ) of                Customs Tariff ;
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 provides that a levy
must be charged on imports of the products listed in
Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of that Regulation ; whereas
the levy is equal for each product to the threshold                  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
price less the cif price ;                                           levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas the threshold prices for cereals and for wheat                    relation to each other at any given moment within
and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed                      a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
for the 1979/80 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)                       their effective parity ;
No 2734/75 (3), (EEC) No 1 548/79 (4), (EEC) No
 1550/79(5) an(j (EEC) No 1594/79(6);                               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                          arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period in
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
used to determine the levies, the Commission must
                                                                          in the previous indent ;
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation
No 1 56/67/EEC (7), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 31 /76 (8), and in particular the most favou­
rable purchasing opportunities on the world market                  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
among those which are most representative of the real               March 1979( 14) laid down the coefficient for
trend of the market, account being taken in particular              expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to                   ECU ;
cause abnormal disturbances on the Community
market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must
also be taken into account, whether this quality corres­            Whereas it follows from applying all the provisions of
ponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulations                  the abovementioned Regulations that the levies
(EEC) No 2731 /75 (9), as amended by Regulation                     should be as set out in the Annex thereto ; whereas
                                                                    these levies are altered only where variations in the
 »)  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .                           components used to calculate them have the effect of
 2)  OJ  No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979,   p. 1 .                           increasing or reducing them by 0-73 ECU or more,
 3)  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 34.
 4)  OJ  No L 188 , 26. 7. 1979,   p. 2.
 s)  OJ  No L 188, 26. 7. 1979,    p. 5.                            ( 10) OJ  No  L 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 11 .
 6)  OJ  No L 189, 27. 7. 1979,    p. 44.                           (")   OJ  No  128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2536/67.
 7)  OJ  No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p.   2533/67.                         ( 12) OJ  No  L 170, 29 . 7. 1971 , p. 20 .
 8)  OJ  No L 5, 10 . 1 . 1976, p.  18 .                            ( 13) OJ  No  128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2542/67.
 9)  OJ  No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 22.                           (> 4) OJ  No  L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                                                Article 2
                       Article 1
The import levies to be charged on the products listed
in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No                          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
2727/75 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.                              1979 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 31 July 1979.
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                              Vice-President
                                                                   ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 July 1979 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                            76.34
                           10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                        108.12 (1) (5)
                           10.02                    Rye                                                 61-26 (6)
                           10.03                    Barley                                              59-60
                           10.04                    Oats                                                77-22
                           10.05 B                  Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                    sowing                                              75.60 (2) (3)
                           10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                             0
                           10.07 B                  Millet                                              28.51 (4)
                           10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                       71.04 (4)
                           10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                           0     (*)
                           11.01 A                  Wheat or meslin flour                              119.90
                           11.01 B                  Rye flour                                           98.76
                           11.02 A I a)             Durum wheat groats and meal                        180.58
                           11.02 A lb)              Common wheat groats and meal                       129-49
                           ') where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the
                               Community, the levy is reduced by 0.60 ECU / tonne .
                           -') 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 .
                           3 ) Where maize originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community the levy is
                               reduced by 1.81 ECU / tonne .
                           4 ) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Community
                               the levy is reduced by SI) % .
                           5 ) Where durum wheat and canary seed produced in Turkey are transported directly from that
                               country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0.60 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 1180 /77 and
                               Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2622/71 .