CELEX: 31973R1859
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-12 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1859/73 of the Commission of 11 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

12. 7. 73                                   Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 191 / 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1859/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 11 July 1973
                     fixing the 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/
67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                     Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the                  contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                  prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
new Member States to the European Economic                             sion that the levies at present in force should be
Community and the European Atomic Energy                               altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 1 3 (5) thereof ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
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 the products listed
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                       in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Regulations ;                                                          67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    annexed to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 12 July
     on their effective parity ;                                       1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 11 July 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                             Member of the Commission
(!)  OJ No   117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2 ) OJ No   L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14 .
(3)  OJ 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 11 July 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 mesiin                          30-64
                      10.01 B               Durum wheat                                        o-io n ν
                      10.02                 Rye                                               41-73 (5)
                      10.03                 Barley                                            19-84
                      10.04                 Oats                                              18-77
                      10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                      13-26 ( 2 ) ( 3)
                     10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                      10.07 B               Millet                                            26-30
                      10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                     18-43
                      10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        («)
                      11.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                              61-66
                      11.01 B               Rye flour                                         70-13
                      11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                        9-10
                      11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                      65-39
                      (') 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 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 u . a . /metric ton .
                      (4) 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 .