CELEX: 31973R3438
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3438/73 of the Commission of 21 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

22. 12. 73                              Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 353 / 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3438 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 21 December 1973
                 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
     on their effective parity ;                                   December 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(z) 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 December 1973 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 wheal and mesiin                           0
                        10.01 lì                    O u ru in wheat                                   o       on
                        10.02                       Rye                                              11-12 (5)
                        10.0.3                      Barley                                            0
                        : 0.04                       Oats                                             0
                        10.05 B                      Maize oilier than hybrid maize
                                                       for sowing                                     0        ( 2 )( 3 )
                        10.07 A                      Buckwheat                                        0
                        i 0.07 li                    Miller                                           0
                        10.07 C                      Grain sorghum                                    0
                        10.07 D                      Canary seed ; oilier cereals                     0       ('}
                        11.01 A                      Wheat or mesiin flour                            0
                         I 1.0 ! B                   Rye flour                                       34-30
                         I 1.02 A I a                Durum wheat groats ami meal                      0
                         1 1 . 02 A 1 1 )            Common wheat groats and meal                     0
                        (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                              that country 10 I lie Community , the levy is reduced by 0'50 u . a . /metric ton
                        {") Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into ; IK
                              French Overseas Departments , the levy in reduced by 6 u . a . / metric ton .
                        (') Where maize originating in Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya is imported i m « ■•
                              the Community , the levy is reduced by 1 u . a . / metric ton .
                        (') Where wheat ami 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 1 2.14 /7 1 and Commission Regulation ( EEC ) No 2622 /71 .