CELEX: 31973R2583
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2583/73 of the Commission of 24 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

25. 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 268 / 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2583/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 24 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 (*) 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            25
      on their effective parity ;                                    September 1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 24 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 .
(3 ) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1 973 , p . 1 .
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                                                           ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 24 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       m
                       10.02                 Rye                                                 0       (5)
                       10.03                 Barley                                              0
                       10.04                 Oats                                                1-93
                       10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                for sowing                                       8-61 (·)(»)
                       10.07 A               Buckwheat                                           0
                       10.07 B               Millet                                              8-29
                       10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                       8-31
                       10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                       ' 0        («)
                       11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                               0
                       11.01 B               Rye flour                                          11-62
                       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 .
                        (8) 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 .