CELEX: 31973R2861
Language: en
Date: 1973-10-23 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2861/73 of the Commission of 22 October 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

23 . 10 . 73                           Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 295/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                            REGULATION ( EEC) No 2861 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 22 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 (') 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 23 October
     on their effective parity ;                                  1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 22 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 .
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 22 October 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                              0
                       10.01 B              Durum wheat                                          0          ( l )( 4 )
                       10.02                Rye                                                 10.14 (5)
                      10.03                 Barley                                               7.12
                       10.04                 Oats                                                0
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                       12.20 (2)(3)
                       10.07 A              Buckwheat                                            0
                       10.07 B              Millet                                               7.74
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                        8.52
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0          («)
                       11.01 A               Wheat or meslin flour                                1.46
                        11.01 B              Rye flour                                          32.94
                       11.02 A I a           Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                       11.02 A I b           Common wheat groats and meal                         1.34
                       (') 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 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 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 .