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28 . 7 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 207/3

REGULATION ( EEC) No 2031 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 27 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 28 July on their effective parity ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 27 July 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/ 67 . (-) 0 | No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 14 . (■•) O'l No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5. h ) 0"| No L 30, I. 2. 1973, p. 1 .

No L 207/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 28 . 7. 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 27 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

1 0.0 Í A Common wheat, and mesiin 25-60 10.01 B Durum wheat o m 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 8-22 m 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 23-79 10.07 C Grain sorghum 15-92 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 («) 11.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour 53-84 11.01 B Rye flour 60-02 11.02 Ala Durum wheat groats and meal 0 11.02 Alb Common wheat groats and meal 56-94

(') Where durum wJient 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 . (') 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 .