CELEX: 31973R2844
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-20 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2844/73 of the Commission of 19 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

20. 10 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 293 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2844/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 19 October 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/                          Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                  contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2076/73 to the
tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­              offer prices and today's quotations known to the
lation (EEC) No 1 346/73 (2), and in particular Article              Commission that the levies at present in force should
 13 (5) thereof ;                                                    be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
                                                                                            Article 1
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 2076/73 (3 ) and subsequent amending                   The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Regulations ;                                                        in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                  67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                 annexed to this Regulation .
— 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 20 October
     on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 19 October 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(-') OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973, p. 8 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 19 October 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                               0
                        10.01 B                Durum wheat                                           o      0 )( 4 )
                        10.02                  Rye                                                  10.14 (s)
                        10.03                  Barley                                                7.12
                        10.04                  Oats                                                  0
                        10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                        11-44 m
                        10.07      A           Buckwheat                                             0
                        10.07     B            Millet                                                7.74
                        10.07      C           Grain sorghum                                         8.52
                        1 0.07    D            Canary seed ; other cereals                           0       (*)
                        VI ,01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                                 1.46
                        11.01 B                Rye flour                                            32.94
                        1 1.02 A I ;i          Durum wheat groats and meal                           0
                         1 1 .02 A 1 b         Common wheat groats and meal                          1.34
                        (') 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 .