CELEX: 31973R1603
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-16
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1603/73 of the Commission of 15 June 1973 fixing the special import levy on olive oil

No L 159/40                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 16. 6. 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 1603/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 15 June 1973
                                             fixing the special import levy on olive oil
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
COMMUNITIES,                                                         levies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
                                                                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
pean Economic Community ;                                                 within a band of 2-25 °/o, a rate of exchange
                                                                          based on their effective parity ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No
136/66/EEC (*) of 22 September 1966 on the esta­                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
blishment of a common organization of the market                          the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
in oils and fats, as last amended by the Act (2)                          each of these currencies recorded for a given
annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of new                         period, in relation to the Community currencies
Member States to the European Economic Commu­                             referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
nity and the European Atomic Energy Community,
signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in parti­                  Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee
cular Article 13 (4) thereof ;                                        was requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No                               Whereas it follows from applying the rules and
162/66/EEC (4) of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils                   other provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No
and fats between the Community and Greece, and                        1523 /73 to the offer prices known to the Commis­
in particular Articles 3 (4) and 9 thereof ;                         sion ithait the special levy at present in force should be
                                                                     altered as shown in the Table annexed to this Regu­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 443/                    lation ;
72 (5) of 29 February 1972 on the levies on refined
olive oil and on certain products containing olive
oil, and in particular Article 9 thereof ;                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2165/70 (6) of 27 October 1970 on imports of olive                                             Article 1
oil from Tunisia, as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2277/71 (7), and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                The special devy referred to in Article 13 (3 ) of
                                                                     Regulation No 136/66/EEC, and fixed in Annex II
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 463/                    of Regulation (EEC) No 1523/73 , is hereby altered
71 (8) of 1 March 1971 on imports of olive oil from                  as shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation .
Morocco, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2277/71 , and in particular Article 5 thereof ;                                                Article 2
Whereas the levies on olive oil were fixed by Com­                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 June
mission Regulation ( EEC) No 1523 /73 (9) ;                           1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 15 June 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
 *) OJ  No  172, 30. 9 . 1966, p. 3025/66.
 2) OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14.
 3) OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .
 *) OJ  No  197, 29. 10. 1966, p. 3393/66.
 5) OJ  No  L 54, 3 . 3 . 1972, p. 3 .
 «) OJ  No  L 238 , 29. 10 . 1970, p . 4 .
 7) OJ  No  L 241 , 27. 10. 1971 , p . 2.
 8) OJ  No  L 53 , 5 . 3 . 1971 , p. 9.
 9) OJ  No  L 152, 8 . 6. 1973 , p . 30.
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                                                   ANNEX
                       Special levy applicable to imports effected from 18 June 1973
                                                                                      Amount in
   CCT heading No                             Description of goods                    u.a. /100 kg
;x 15.07 A II     Virgin olive oil in immediate packings of a net capacity of 5 kg or
                  less originating or coming from Spain                                 17·276