CELEX: 31973R3066
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-14
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3066/73 of the Commission of 13 November 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

14. 11 . 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 313/3
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 3066/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                    of 13 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 (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            14
     on their effective parity ;                                  November 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 13 November 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(1) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
(2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 .
P) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                                ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 13 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 meslin                           0
                        10.01 R                   Dimmi wheat                                       0       (')(«)
                        10.02                     Rye                                              14-37 (5)
                        10.03                     Barley                                           12-46
                         10.04                    Oats                                              2-57
                         10.05 li                 Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                     for sowing                                     8-09 (2)(3)
                         10.07 A                  Buckwheat                                         0
                         10.07 B                  Millet                                           11-99
                         10.07 C                  Grain sorghum                                     5-15
                         10.07 D                  Canary seed ; other cereals                       o       (<)
                        11.01 A                   Wheat or mesiin flour                             0
                         11.01 B                  Rye flour                                        38-86
                         1 1 . 02 A I a            Durum wheat groats and meal                      0
                         11.02 A 1 b               Common wheat groats and meal                     0
                        (') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from
                              that couniry lo the Community , the levy is reduced by 0-50 u . a . /metric toil .
                         (8) 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 ilinr 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 1 234 /71 and Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 2622/71 .