CELEX: 31973R1061
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1061/73 of the Commission of 24 April 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

25 . 4. 73                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 108/ 1
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                                            (Acts whose publication ts obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1061/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 24 April 1973
                          fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
COMMUNITIES,                                                      the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
                                                                  on 13 February 1973 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­
pean Economic Community ;                                         Whereas it follows from applying the provisions
Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/                       contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the
67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organi­                  offer prices and today's quotations known to the
zation of the market in cereals, as last amended by               Commission that the levies at present in force
the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (8) on the Acces­                should be altered as shown in the Annex to this
sion of new Member States to the European                          Regulation ;
Economic Community and the European Atomic
Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22
January 1972, and in particular Article 13 (5 )                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
thereof ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
                                                                                           Article 1
Committee ;
Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye                The import levies to be charged on the products
 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by                    listed in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No
Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent                      120/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
amending Regulations ;                                             annexed to this Regulation.
 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 levies should be calculated on the basis of an                                            Article 2
 exchange rate which is based, in the case of curren­
 cies which are floating or whose central rate differs            This Regulation shall enter into force on 25 April
 from the official parity, on the effective rate or the            1973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 24 April 1973 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                         Member of the Commission
 C)   OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67.
 (■)  OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
  (8) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5.
 (4)  OJ No L 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                          ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 24 April 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                  43.62
                     10.01 B              Durum wheat                               41.06 (»)(«)
                     10.02                Rye                                       42.13 (5)
                     10.03                Barley                                    38.72
                     10.04                Oats                                       25.57
                     10.05 B              Maize other than hybrid maize
                                            for sowing                               36.78 (2)(s)
                     10.07 A              Buckwheat                                     0
                     10.07 B              Millet                                     38.19
                     10.07 C              Grain sorghum                              37.21
                     10.07     D          Canary seed ; other cereals                   0     (4 )
                     11.01     A          Wheat or meslin flour                      79.82
                     11.01     B          Rye flour                                  70.16
                     11.02     Ala        Durum wheat groats and meal               72.53
                     11.02 Alb            Common wheat groats and meal               85.24
                     {') 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 .
                     (l) 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 .
                     (s) 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 .