31973R1047

No L 104/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 19 . 4. 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1047/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 17 April 1973 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1080/68 on the procedure for calculating the levy on products processed from cereals and from rice and for the advance fixing of the levy for some of these products .

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : COMMUNITIES, Article 1 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; The first and second subparagraphs of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ Regulation (EEC) No 1080/68 are replaced by the 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ following : tion of the market in cereals as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) concerning the Acces­ ' 1 . The levy on imports of products falling sion of new Member States to the European Economic within subheadings 07.06 A, 1 1 .06 A, 11 .07 and 23.02 A of the Common Customs Tariff appli­ Community and the European Atomic Energy Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, cable on the day on which the application for the and in particular Article 1 5 thereof ; certificate is lodged shall be applied, upon request being lodged by the applicant before 1 p. m . when Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2429/72 (4) of applying for the certificate, to imports effected 21 November 1972 concerning the suspension of the during the period of validity of the certificate. application of the provisions for the advance fixing of levies and export refunds in different sectors of the In the case referred to in the foregoing paragraph, common organization of the market lays down certain the levy shall where appropriate be adjusted by measures, including in particular an hour of the day reference to the threshold price of the basic by which applications for certificates must be lodged ; product or products used in the calculation of the variable component of the levy in force during the Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No month of importation, without prejudice to the 1080/68 (5) of 26 July 1968 , as last amended by Regu­ possible application of the second subparagraph of lation (EEC) No 2764/71 (6) does not specify precisely Article 15 (3) of Regulation No 120/67/EEC.' the hour of the day on which applications for certifi­ cates must be lodged ; whereas it should therefore be Article 2 supplemented ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation This Regulation shall enter into force on the day are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ following its publication in the Official Journal of ment Committee for Cereals : the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 17 April 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

François-Xavier ORTOLI

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967. (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972. (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972. (4) OJ No L 264, 23 . 11 . 1972. (5) OJ No L 181 , 27. 7. 1968 . 6 OJ No L 283 , 24. 12. 1971 .