CELEX: 31973R1696
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-28 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1696/73 of the Commission of 27 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

No L 173 / 2                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            28 . 6 . 73
                             REGULATION ( EEC) No 1696/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 27 June 1973
                    fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                       in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                               Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                   requested ;
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 :
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye
flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending                                           Article 1
Regulations ;
                                                                   The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/
levies should be calculated on the following basis :               67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                annexed to this Regulation .
      relation to each other, at any given moment,
      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                                   Article 2
      on their effective parity ;
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the               This Regulation shall enter into force on 28 June
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each              1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 27 June 1973 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
 (') O ) No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67 .
 (-') O'l No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
 p) O'l No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (-») O 'l No L 30, I. 2. 1973 , p . I.
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                                                            ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 27 June 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                           33-10
                        10.01 B              Durum wheat                                        24-40 i1 ) (4)
                        10.02                Rye                                                45-36 (5 )
                        10.03                Barley                                             25-73
                        10.04                Oats                                               16-26
                        10.05 B             Maize other than hybrid maize
                                               for sowing                                       13-59 (2) (»)
                        10.07 A             Buckwheat                                            0
                        10.07 B             Millet                                              22-87
                        10.07 C             Grain sorghum                                       17-67
                        10.07 D             Canary seed ; other cereals                          0      n
                        11.01 A             Wheat or mesiin flour                               65-10
                        11.01 B             Rye flour                                           75-21
                        11.02 Ala           Durum wheat groats and meal                         46-76
                        11.02 Alb           Common wheat groats and meal                        69-10
                       (') 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 .
                       (*) 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 .