CELEX: 31974R0147
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 147/74 of the Commission of 21 January 1974 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

22 . 1 . 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 17/1
                                                                 I
                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 147/ 74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 21 January 1974
                  fixing the import 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 22 January
     on their effective parity ;                                    1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 January 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 .
(2) 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 21 January 1974 fixing the import 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                              0
                     10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          o        ( J )(4 )
                     10.02                 Rye                                                 0        (5 )
                     10.03                Barley                                               0
                     10.04                 Oats                                                0
                     10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                             for sowing                                        o        m
                     10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                     10.07 B               Millet                                              0
                     10.07 C               Graiin sorghum                                      0
                     10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0        (4 )
                     H.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                               0
                     11.01 B               Rye flour                                           0
                     11.02 Ala             Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                     11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                     (') 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 .
                     (2) 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 .
                     (5) The import levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                         from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regularton
                         ( EEC) No 1234/71 and Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 2622/71 .