CELEX: 31973R1481
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1481/73 of the Commission of 5 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

6. 6 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 149/ 1
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                                              (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 1481 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 5 June 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 ; whereas the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                            Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
 67/EEC (! ) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­                    requested ;
 tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the              Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of               contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer
 new Member States to the European Economic Com ­                   prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­
 munity and the European Atomic Energy Community                    sion that the levies at present in force should be
 signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in parti­               altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
 cular Article 13 (5) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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,                                         Article 2
      within a band of 2.25 % , a rate of exchange based
      on their effective parity ;                                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 June 1973.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 5 June 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(')  OJ  No  117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67.
(-') 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 5 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                   26.69
                       10.01 B             Durum wheat                                28.99 (»)(«)
                       10.02               Rye                                        43.92 (5)
                       10.03               Barley                                     14.04
                       10.04               Oats                                       13.24
                       10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                               5.97 (2).(3)
                       10.07    A          Buckwheat                                   0
                       10.07    B          Millet                                     19.55
                       10.07    C          Grain sorghum                              17.42
                       10.07    D          Canary seed ; other cereals                 0      (')
                       11.01 A             Wheat or meslin flour                     56.13
                       11.01 B             Rye flour                                  73.86
                       11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal               53.88
                      11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal              59.42
                      (') 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 is 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 .