31973R1542

No L 154/ 34 Official Journal of the European Communities 9 . 6 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1542/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 8 June 1973 altering the import levies on products processed from cereals and rice

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 the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was 67/EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ requested ; tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of Whereas the levy on the basic product as last fixed new Member States to the European Economic differs from the average levy by more than 0-25 unit Community and the European Atomic Energy of account per 100 kilogrammes of basic product ; Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, whereas, pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No and in particular Article 14 (4) thereof ; 1080/68 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1047/73 (7), the levies at present in force must there­ Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ fore be altered as shown in the Table annexed to this 67/EEC (4) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ Regulation ; tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Act annexed to the Treaty on the Accession of new Member States to the European Economic Commu­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : nity and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in par­ ticular Article 1 2 (4) thereof ; Article 1

Whereas the import levies on products processed The import levies to be charged on products from cereals and rice were fixed by Regulation (EEC) processed from cereals and rice covered by Regulation No 1433/73 0 ; (EEC) No 1052/68 (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 881 /73 (9), as fixed in the Annex to Regula­ Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, tion (EEC) No 1433/73, are hereby altered as shown levies should be calculated on the following basis : in the Table annexed to this Regulation . — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 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 9 June 1973.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 June 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p. 2269/67. (J) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (6) OJ No L 181 , 27. 7. 1968 , p . 6. P) OJ No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 . \7) OJ No L 104, 19 . 4. 1973, p. 30. (4) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 179, 25. 7. 1968 , p. 8 . (5) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5 . 1973, p. 17. H OJ No L 86, 31 . 3 . 1973, p . 30 .

9 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 154/35

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 8 June 1973 altering the import levies on products processed from cereals and rice

Levies in u.a. / lOO kg CCT heading No Third countries AASM , OCT, Tanzania , Uganda (other than AASM and OCT, and Kenya Tanzania , Uganda and Kenya)

11.02 A II (») 9-342 8-842 11.02 B II b) (i) 6-783 6-533 11.02 C II (*> 8-109 7-859 11.02 D II i1 ) 5-260 5-010 11.02 E II b) (*) 9-342 8-842 11.02 F II (*) 9-342 8-842

(l) For the purpose of distinguishing between products falling within heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 and those falling within subheading 23.02 A, products falling within heading Nos 11.01 and 11.02 shall be those meetiiig the following specifications : — a starch content (determined by the modified Ewers polarimetric method), referred to dry matter, exceeding 45 •/• by weight — an ash content, by weight, referred to dry matter (after deduction of any added minerals), not exceeding 1 -6 •/« for rice, 2*5 % for wheat, 3 % for barley, 4 °/o for buckwheat, 5 •/« for oats and 2 % for other cereals . Germ of cereals , whole, rolled, flaked or ground , falls in all cases within heading No 11.02.