CELEX: 31973R1998
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1998/73 of the Commission of 25 July 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

26 . 7 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 205/ 1
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                                                 (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 1998 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 25 July 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 /
67/ EEC (') 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 ;
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­                 The import levies to be charged on the products listed
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                       in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
Regulations ;                                                          67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    annexed to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— 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 26 July
      on their effective parity ;                                      1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 25 July 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Conimission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
(') 0 ( No 117 , 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 22 69 / 67 .
(-') 0"| No L. 73 , 27 .   1972, p. 14.
(') 0"| No L 73 . 27 . 3 . 1 972, p . 5 .
(4 ) 0"| No L 30 , 1 . 2. 1973 , p . I.
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                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 25 July 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                           26-32
                       10.01 B               Durum wheat                                          0-10 (') (4 )
                       10.02                 Rye                                                34-51 (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                               7-57
                       10.04                 Oats                                               18-79
                       10 05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                        9*10 (2)(3)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                            0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                             23-79
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       18-45
                       10.07     D           Canary seed ; other cereals                          0       (4)
                       11.01     A           Wheat or mesiin flour                              55-61
                       11.01     B           Rye flour                                          60-02
                       11.02     Ala         Durum wheat groats and meal                          1-29
                        11.02    Alb         Common wheat groats and meal                       58-85
                       (') 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 .
                       (•) 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 .