CELEX: 31978R2510
Language: en
Date: 1978-10-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2510/78 of 27 October 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

28 . 10 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 301 / 1
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                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2510/78
                                                         of 27 October 1978
                   fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to
COMMUNITIES,                                                          cause abnormal disturbances on the Community
                                                                      market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                also be taken into account, whether this quality corres­
Economic Community,                                                   ponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulations
                                                                      (EEC) No 2731 /75 (9), as amended by Regulation
                                                                      (EEC) No 11 56/77 (10), and (EEC) No 2734/75, or
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         whether adjustments need to be made by applying the
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organi­                      coefficients of equivalence provided for in Regulation
zation of the market in cereals (!), as last amended by               No 158/67/EEC (u) as last amended by Regulation
Regulation (EEC) No 1 254/78 (2), and in particular                   (EEC) No 1637/71 (i 2), and in Regulation No 159/
Article 13 (5) thereof,                                               67/EEC (» 3) ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary
Committee,                                                            Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
                                                                      the basis of the abovementioned elements, offers for
                                                                      other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 13 (1 ) of                  corrections necessitated by the differences in transport
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 that a levy must be                       charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
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 price less the
 cif price ;                                                          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 threshold prices for cereals and for wheat                Customs Tariff :
and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal, were fixed
for the 1978/79 marketing year by Regulations (EEC)
No 2734/75(3), (EEC) No 1255/78(4), (EEC) No                          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 1257/78(5) and (EEQ NO 1408/78 (6);                                  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas for the purpose of calculating the cif prices                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
used to determine the levies, the Commission must
take into account the factors indicated in Regulation                       relation to each other at any given moment within
No 156/67/EEC (7), as last amended by Regulation                            a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
(EEC) No 31 /76 (8), and in particular the most favou­                      their effective parity ;
rable purchasing opportunities on the world market
among those which are most representative of the real
                                                                      — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
                                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
trend of the market, account being taken in particular                      of these currencies in relation to the Community
                                                                            currencies referred to in the previous subpara­
(») OJ  No   L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No   L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 1 .                                     graph ;
(J) OJ  No   L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 34.
(4) OJ  No   L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 2.                                H OJ No L 281 , 1 . 11 . 1975, p. 22.
(5) OJ  No   L 156, 14. 6. 1978, p. 5.                                (10) OJ No 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 11 .
(é) OJ  No   L 170, 27. 6. 1978, p. 28 .                              (n) OJ No 128, 27. 6. 1967, p. 2536/67.
O   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.
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Whereas the Monetary Committee will be consulted ;             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas, in view of the urgency, the measures envis­
aged should be adopted in accordance with the condi­
tions laid down in Article 3 (2) of Council Regulation                                Article 1
No 129 on the value of the unit of account and the
exchange rates to be applied for the purposes of the
common agricultural policy (*), as last amended by             The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (2), and in particular             in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
Article 3 thereof ;                                            2727/75 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
                                                               annexed to this Regulation.
Whereas, it follows from applying all the provisions of
the abovementioned Regulations that the levies
should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this Regula­
                                                                                      Article 2
tion ; whereas these levies should be altered only
where variations in the components used to calculate
them would have the effect of increasing or reducing           This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 October
them by 0-60 unit of account or more,                          1978 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 27 October 1978 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                            Vice-President
 (*) OJ No 106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
 (2) OJ No L 263, 19. 9. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 27 October 1978 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                          on wheat or rye flour groats and meal
                                                                                                            (u.a./tonne)
                               CCT
                              heading                             Description                               Levies
                                No
                       10.01 A                  Common wheat, and meslin                                80.78
                       10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                           126-53 (1) (5)
                       10.02                    Rye                                                     83.67 (*)
                       10.03                    Barley                                                  87.30
                       10.04                    Oats                                                    77.94
                       10.05 B                  Maize, other than hybrid maize for
                                                sowing                                                  81.08 (2) (3)
                       10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                                 7-58
                       10.07    B               Millet                                                  50.31 (4)
                       10.07    C               Grain sorghum                                           78.75 (4)
                       10.07    D               Canary seed ; other cereals                               o
                       11.01    A               Wheat or meslin flour                                 124.14
                       11.01    B               Rye flour                                              128.18
                       11.02 A I a)             Durum wheat groats and meal                           206.98
                       11.02 A lb)              Common wheat groats and meal                          133.70
                      (') 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.
                      (■•) Where millet and sorghum originating in the ACP or OCT is imported into the Commu­
                           nity, 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 .