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26 . 7 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 205/ 1

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REGULATION ( EEC) No 1998 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 25 July 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 ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 120 / Whereas it follows from applying the provisions 67/ EEC (') of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ contained in Regulation ( EEC) No 244/ 73 to the offer tion of the market in cereals , as last amended by the prices and today's quotations known to the Commis­ Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3 ) on the Accession of sion that the levies at present in force should be new Member States to the European Economic altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 13(5) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Article 1 Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­ The import levies to be charged on the products listed tion ( EEC) No 244/73 (4) and subsequent amending in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c ) of Regulation No 120 / Regulations ; 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, annexed to this Regulation . levies should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 July on their effective parity ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels , 25 July 1973 .

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

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No L 205 /2 Official Journal of the European Communities 26 . 7 . 7.3­

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 25 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 mesiin 26-32 10.01 B Durum wheat 0-10 (') (4 ) 10.02 Rye 34-51 (5) 10.03 Barley 7-57 10.04 Oats 18-79 10 05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 9*10 (2)(3) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 23-79 10.07 C Grain sorghum 18-45 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 (4) 11.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour 55-61 11.01 B Rye flour 60-02 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 1-29 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 58-85

(') 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 .