CELEX: 31973R3142
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3142/73 of the Commission of 21 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

22 . 11 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 321 /3
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3142/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                     of 21 November 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 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 22
     on their effective parity ;                                   November 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 November 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 .
(3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p . 1 .
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                                                             ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 21 November 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 whent                                          o       (' K «)
                        10.02                Rye                                                 10-56 ( 5)
                        10,0.3               Barley                                              10-13
                        : 0.04               Oats                                                 0
                        10.05 li             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                        0       (*)(»)
                        10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                        10.07 B              Millet                                               6-24
                        10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       0
                        10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                         0       (4)
                        1 1.01 A              Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                        1 1.01 B              Rye flour                                          33-52
                        1 1.02 A I n          Durum wheat groats and meal                         0
                        11.02 Λ I h           Common wheat groats and meal                        0
                        {') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                            that country lo 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 .