CELEX: 31973R1708
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1708/73 of the Commission of 28 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

29 . 6 . 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 175/7
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1708/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 28 June 1973
                      fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                            relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                    requested ;
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 13(5) thereof ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                           Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                   The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                 in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                 annexed to this Regulation .
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2·25 % , a rate of exchange based                                   Article 2
      on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the               This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 June
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 28 June 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(!)  OJ  No   117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67.
0    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 28 June 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                            32·34
                        10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                        22·03 (*)(«)
                         10.02                  Rye                                                43·83 (5)
                         10.03                  Barley                                             16·17
                         10.04                  Oats                                               16·26
                         10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                       12·56 (2)(3 )
                         10.07 A                Buckwheat                                            0
                         10.07 B                Millet                                             22·87
                         10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                       17·67
                         10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                          0       («)
                         11.01 A                Wheat or meslin flour                               64·04
                         11.01 B                Rye flour                                           73·07
                         11.02 Ala              Durum wheat groats and meal                         43·09
                          11.02 Alb             Common wheat groats and meal                        67·96
                         (l) 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 .
                          (') 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 .