CELEX: 31973R2474
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2474/73 of the Commission of 12 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

13 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 256/ 1
                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2474/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 12 September 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 (J ) 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    13
      on their effective parity ;                                      September 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 12 September 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 .
(•') OJ No L 212, 1.8 . 1973 , p . I.
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                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 12 September 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                            0
                       10.01 B                Durum wheat                                        o       (')(<)
                       10.02                  Rye                                                4-78 (5)
                       10.03                  Barley                                             0
                       10.04                  Oats                                               8-01
                       10.05 B                Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                 for sowing                                     12-39 (2)(8)
                       10.07 A                Buckwheat                                          0
                       10.07 B                Millet                                             6-39
                       10.07 C                Grain sorghum                                     13-25
                       10.07 D                Canary seed ; other cereals                        0       (4)
                       11.01 A                Wheat or mesiin flour                              0
                       11.01 B                Rye flour                                         25-44
                       11.02 Ala              Durum wheat groats and meal                        0
                       11.02 Alb               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 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 .
                       (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 .
                        (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 .