CELEX: 31973R3479
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3479/73 of the Commission of 27 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 357/ 8                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           28 . 12 . 73
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3479/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 27 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 1346/73 (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         28
      on their effective parity ;                                 December 1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 27 December 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No 117, 19 . 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (-') OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
 p) O J No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 27 December 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and
                                                on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
                                     COT
                                   heading                   Description of goods                     II . n . / ton
                                      No
                           10.01 A                  Common wheal and meslm                          0
                           10.01 B                  Durum wheat                                     o          on
                           10.02                    Rye                                            10·29 (5)
                           10.03                    Ba rley                                         0
                           10.04                    Oats                                            0
                           10.05 B                  Maize oilier than hybrid maize
                                                       for sowing                                   0           ( 2)( 3)
                           10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                       0
                           i 0.07 B                  Millet                                         0
                           10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                   0
                            10.07 P                  Canary seed ; other cereals                    0           (4)
                            I 1.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                          0
                            1 1 . 01 B               Rye flour                                     33-14
                            I 1.02 A I ;i            Durum wheat groats and meal                    0
                            I 1.02 A 1 b             Common wheat groats and meal                   0
                           (') Where tin ruin wheal originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                                 iliat country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 it . a . /metric ton .
                           (') Where maize originating in the AASM and OCT is imported into i lie­
                                 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 impmt levy charged on rye produced in Turkey and transported directly
                                  from that country to the Community is laid down in Council Regulation
                                 fF.EC ) No 1234 /71 and Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2622/71 .
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