31973R2271

No L 234 / 10 Official Journal of the European Communities 22 . 8 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 2271 /73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 21 August 1973

fixing the export levies on cereals

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the threshold prices for the 1973 /74 mar­ COMMUNITIES, keting year were fixed by Council Regulation (EEC ) No 1964/73 (4) of 17 July 1973 ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas , for the purpose of calculating the cif prices used to determine the levies, the Commission must Having regard to Council Regulation No 120/67/ take into account the factors indicated in Regulation EEC (*) of 13 June 1967 on the common organiza­ No 156/67/EEC ( 5 ), as amended by Regulation ( EEC ) tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by No 1607/71 (6), and in particular the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the world market Regulation (EEC) No 1346/73 (2) ; among those which are most representative of the real trend of the market, account being taken in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) No particular of the need to prevent sudden variations 1968 /73 (3) of 19 July 1973 laying down general rules likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Com­ to be applied in the event of the cereals market being munity market ; whereas the quality of the goods " disturbed, and in particular Article 5 thereof ; offered must also be taken into account, whether this quality corresponds to the standard quality fixed Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Com­ in Regulations ( EEC ) No 786/69 ( 7) and (EEC ) No mittee ; 1397/69 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the coefficients of equivalence provided Whereas Article 19 of Regulation No 120/67/EEC for in Regulation ( EEC ) No 158/67/EEC (9), as last provides that the necessary measures may be taken amended by the Act ( 10) on the Conditions of Acces­ if the cif price of one or more products is appreciably sion and the Adjustments to the treaties and by higher than the threshold price and if that situation Regulation No 159 /67/EEC (") ; is likely to continue thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb the Community market ; Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers Whereas Regulation ( EEC ) No 1968 /73 specifies that for other ports being adjusted, account being taken the cif price may be regarded as appreciably higher of the corrections necessitated by the differences in than the threshold price when it exceeds it by at transport charges in relation to Rotterdam ; least 2 % ; whereas this excess may be regarded as being likely to continue where an imbalance between Whereas the factors set out in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Re­ supply and demand is established and where this gulation ( EEC) No 1968 /73 must also be taken into imbalance is likely to persist having regard to fore­ account when the export levy is being fixed ; seeable production and market price trends ;

Whereas the high level of prices in international trade Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, could impede importation of common wheat, barley the following should be used to calculate the levies : and maize into the Community or provoke exporta­ — for currencies the exchange rates for which are tion from the Community ; kept at any given moment within a band of 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual Whereas the situation described above can be said parity ; to exist for 21 August 1973 ; whereas to ensure sup­ plies in the Community an export levy should be — for other currencies , a conversion rate based on introduced for these products ; the arithmetric mean of the spot market rates for

Whereas the export levy for the products listed in Article 1 ( a ) and ( b ) of Regulation No 120/67 /EEC ( 4 ) Of No L. 201 , 21 . 7. 1973 , p . 3 . (5) Oj No 128 , 27. 6. 1967, p. 2533/67. must be based on the difference between the cif price («) OJ No I. 168 , 27. 7. 19'7 1 , p . 16 . and the threshold price ; ( 7) OJ No L 100, 28 . 4 . 1969, p . 8 . ( H ) O I No L 179 , 21 . 7. 1 969 , p . 6. (!) OJ No 117, 19 . 6 . 1967, p . 2269/67. ( u) O J No 128 , 27 . 6 . 1967 , p . 2536/67 . (2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5 . 1973 , p . 8 . ( ,0) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . 14 . (») OJ No L 201 , 21 . 7 . 1973 , p . 10. [") OJ No 128 , 27 . 6 . 1967. p . 2542/67 .

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : each of these currencies against the Community currencies referred to in the preceding paragraph Article 1 over a specified period ; The export levy referred to in the first indent of Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1968 /73 is hereby fixed as shown in the Annex for the products Whereas it follows from applying these rules to listed therein . the situation on the cereals market and in particular Article 2 to prices in international trade that the export levies should be fixed as shown in the Annex to this This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 August Regulation ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 21 August 1973 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 21 August 1973 fixing export levies on cereals

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

10.01 A Common wheat, and mesiin 43-00

10.03 Barley 18-00

10.05 B Maize , other than hybrid maize for sowing 12-00