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REGULATION (EEC) No 1561 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 13 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of these currencies recorded for a given period, in COMMUNITIES, relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was requested ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/ 67/EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas it follows from applying the provisions tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by the contained in Regulation (EEC) No 244/73 to the offer Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­ of new Member States to the European Economic sion that the levies at present in force should be Community and the European Atomic Energy altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Community signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 13(5) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye 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, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Article 2 on their effective parity ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the This Regulation shall enter into force on 14 June 1973 . arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each

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

Done at Brussels, 13 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 .

No L 157/2 Official Journal of the European Communities 14 . 6 . 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 13 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 meslin 30-55 10.01 B Durum wheat 29-64 H (*) 10.02 Rye 48-63 (s) 10.03 Barley 20-08 10.04 Oats 19-50 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 8-68 («)(») 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 22-87 10.07 C Grain sorghum 21-04 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 (4) 11.01 A Wheat or meslin flour 61-53 11.01 B . Rye flour 79-79 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 54-89 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 65-25

(l) 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 seduced 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 .