CELEX: 31973R1507
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1507/73 of the Commission of 7 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

8 . 6. 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 152/ 1
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                                             (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1507/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 7 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 ( 1) 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 ;
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
Regulations ;                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :               in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                  annexed to this Regulation .
     within a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                                          Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              This Regulation shall enter into force on 8 June 1973.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 7 June 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No   117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) 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 7 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 mesiin                     34-78
                       10.01 B             Durum wheat                                  34-33 (*)(*) (4)
                       10.02               Rye                                          48-63 ( 5)
                       10.03               Barley                                       14-04
                       10.04               Oats                                         14-43
                       10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                              for sowing                                10-57 (2)(3 )
                       10.07 A             Buckwheat                                     0
                      10.07 B              Millet                                       21-70
                      10.07 C              Grain sorghum                                19-32
                      10.07 D              Canary seed ; other cereals                   o       (4)
                      11.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                        67-45
                      11.01 B              Rye flour                                    79-79
                      11.02 Ala            Durum wheat groats and meal                  62-16
                      11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal                 71-64
                      (') 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 .
                     (') 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 .
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