31973R1749

No L 176/64 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 6. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1749/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 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 of prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­ 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 Janaury 1972, and in particular Article 13(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 Regulations ; Article 1 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, The import levies to be charged on the products listed refunds should be calculated on the following basis : in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/ — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table relation to each other, at any given moment, annexed to this Regulation . within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on their effective parity ; Article 2 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 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 . (J) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. 4) OJ No L 30 , 1 . 2 . 1973, p. 1 .

30. 6. 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 176/65

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the levies on cereals and on wheat cr rye flour, groats and meal

CCT heading Description of goods u. a. /ton No

10.01 A Common wheat, and mesiin 32-34 10.01 B Durum wheat 22-03 OH4) 10.02 Rye 40-77 (5) 10.03 Barley 11-97 10.04 Oats 15-51 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 14-09 (2)(3) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 22-26 10.07 C Grain sorghum 17-67 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 (4) 11.01 A "Wheat or mesiin flour 64-04 11.01 B Rye flour 68-78 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 43-09 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 67-96

(') 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 rcduced by 6 u . a . /metric ion . {*) 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 reduccd 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 .