CELEX: 31973R2660
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2660/73 of the Commission of 28 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

29 . 9 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                       No L 237/79
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 2660/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 28 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 ( 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 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 1 October
      on their effective parity ;                                     1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 28 September 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1 967, p . 2269/67.
(2 ) 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 28 September 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat
                                                    cr rye flour, groats and meal
                                   CCT
                                 heading                    Description of goods                 u. a. /ton
                                    No
                          1 0.0 1 A              Common wheat, and mesiin                     0
                           10.01 B               Durum wheat                                  o        m
                          10.02                  Rye                                          0-74 («)
                           1 0.03                Barley                                       0
                          10.04                  Oats                                         1-05
                           10.05 B               Maize other than hybrid maize
                                                    for sowing                               12-95 (2)(3)
                           10.07 A               Buckwheat                                    0
                           10.07 B               Millet                                       6-23
                           10.07 C               Grain sorghum                                7-02
                           10.07 D               Canary seed ; other cereals                  0         (*)
                           11.01 A               Wheat or mesiin flour                        0
                           11.01 B               Rye flour                                   19-78
                           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 is 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 .