CELEX: 31973R2683
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2683/73 of the Commission of 2 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

3 . 10 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 276/ 1
                                                                   I
                                                (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2683/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 2 October 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 ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                           Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
67/EEC (1 ) 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
 1 3 (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 3 October
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 2 October 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                   P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67 .
(2 ) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 .
(3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .
 ---pagebreak--- No L 276/2                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                        3 . 10 . 73
                                                              ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 2 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                  or rye flour, groats and meal
                                 CCT
                                heading                  Description of goods                        u . n . / ton
                                  No
                       10.01 A                 Common wheat and meslin                             0
                       10.01 B                 Durum wheat                                         0         ( l )( 4 )
                       10.02                   Rye                                                 0         (5 )
                       10.03                   Barley                                              0
                       10.04                   Oats                                                0
                       10.05 B                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                  for sowing                                      11.82 (2)(3)
                       10.07 A                 Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B                 Millet                                              9.24
                       10.07 C                 Grain sorghum                                       5.51
                        10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                         o         n
                       11.01 A                 Wheat or meslin flour                               o
                        I t .0 1 B             Rye flour                                          17.66
                        I 1 . 02 A 1 a         Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                        1 1 .02 A 1 b          Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                       (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                            that country to the Community , the levy is reduced by 0.50 11 . 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 .
                       (5) 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 .