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29 . 11 . 73 No L 329/ 1 Official Journal of the European Communities

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3211 /73 OF THE COMMISSION

of 28 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 1346/73 (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 29 on their effective parity ; November 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 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 329 /2 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 11 . 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 November 1973 fixing the import levies on cereals and on wheat or rye flour, groats and meal

CCT heading Description of Roods u.a. / 100 No

10.01 A Common wheat and meslin 0 10.01 II Durum wheat 0 on 10.02 Rye 11.66 (5) 10.03 Barley 1.72 10.04 Oats 0 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for sowing o ( 2 KS) 10.07 A Buckwheat 0 10.07 B Millet 2.29 ' 10.07 C Grain sorghum 0 10.07 D Canary seed ; other cereals 0 (*} 11.01 A Wheat or meslin flour 0 Rye flour 35.06 1 1 . 01 B Durum wheat groats and meal 0 I 1 . 02 A 1 ;i 0 f 1 . 02 A 1 !> Common wheat groats and meal

('} Where durum wheat originating in Morocco is transported directly front 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 it . 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 impon 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 .