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24 . 11 . 73 No L 323/ 1 Official Journal of the European Communities

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REGULATION (EEC) No 3178 /73 OF THE COMMISSION of 23 November 1973 fixing the import 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 2076/73 to the tion of the market in cereals, as last amended by Regu­ offer prices and today's quotations known to the lation (EEC) No 1 346/73 (2), and in particular Article Commission that the levies at present in force should 1 3 (5) thereof ; be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation, Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas the import levies on cereals, wheat and rye Article 1 flour, and wheat groats and meal were fixed by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 2076/73 (3) and subsequent amending The import levies to be charged on the products listed Regulations ; in Article 1 (a), (b) and (c) of Regulation No 120/ 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 24 on their effective parity ; November 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 23 November 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS

Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No 117, 19. 6. 1967, p. 2269/67. (2) OJ No L 141 , 28 . 5. 1973, p. 8 . (3) OJ No L 212, 1 . 8 . 1973 , p . 1 .

No L 323 /2 Official Journal of the European Communities 24 . 11 . 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 23 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

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

10.01 A Common wheat and meslin 0 10.01 B Durum wheat 0 ( l )( 4 ) 10.02 Rye 14.12 (5 ) 10.03 Barley 4.59 10.04 Oats 0 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing 0 (2)( 3) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 3.86 10.07 C Grain sorghum 0 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 ( 4 ) 11.01 A Wheat or meslin flour 0 11.01 B Rye flour 38.51 1 1 . 02 A 1 a Durum wheat groats and meal 0 II . 02 A 1 b Common wheat groats and meal 0

(') 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 A ASM 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 .