31973R1492

No L 151 / 2 Official Journal of the European Communities 7 . 6 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1492/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 June 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 ; whereas the Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ Opinion of the Monetary Committee was requested ; 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the Whereas it follows from applying the provisions Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer new Member States to the European Economic prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­ Community and the European Atomic Energy sion that the levies at present in force should be Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; and in particular Article 1 3 (5) thereof ; Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 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, Article 2 within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; This Regulation shall enter into force on 7 June 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 6 June 1973 .

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. (4) OJ No L 30 , 1 . 2. 1973, p . 1 .

7 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 151 / 3

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 6 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 30-88 10.01 B Durum wheat 31-19 m 10.02 Rye 47-07 (5) 10.03 Barley 14-04 10.04 Oats 14-43 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 6-85 («)(») 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 21-70 10.07 C Grain sorghum 19-32 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 (4) 11.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour 61-99 11.01 B Rye flour 77-60 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 57-29 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 65-75

(') Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly from that country to the Community, the levy is reduced by (MO 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, tne 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 .