31973R1797

No L 183/4 5 . 7 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 1797/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 July 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 (1) 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 January 1972, 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 ;

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, The import levies to be charged on the products listed levies 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 5 July 1973.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 July 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 . {*) OJ No L. 30, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 1 .

5 . 7 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 183 /5

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 4 July 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 31.46 10.01 B Durum wheat 18.28 (*)(«) 10.02 Rye 41.10 («) 10.03 Barley 14.70 10.04 Oats 16.80 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid malze for sowing 12.18 (2)(8) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 23.22 10.07 C Grain sorghum 16.14 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 («) 11.01 A Wheat or meslin flour 62.80 11.01 B Rye flour 69.24 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 37.99 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 66.62

(') 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 in reduced 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 .