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►B COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)No 3072/95
of 22 December 1995
on the common organization of the market in rice
(OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EC) No 192/98 of 20 January 1998 L 20 16 27.1.1998
►M2Council Regulation (EC) No 2072/98 of 28 September 1998 L 265 4 30.9.1998
►M3Commission Regulation (EC) No 1528/2000 of 13 July 2000 L 175 64 14.7.2000
Corrected by:
►C1Corrigendum, OJ L 80, 30.3.1996, p. 72 (3072/95/EC)
NB: This consolidated version contains references to the European unit of account and/or the ecu, which from 1 January
1999 should be understood as references to the euro — Council Regulation (EEC) No 3308/80 (OJ L 345, 20.12.1980,
p. 1) and Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 (OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1).
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC)No 3072/95
of 22 December 1995
on the common organization of the market in rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
and in particular Articles 42 and 43 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(
1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Commit-
tee(2),
(1)Whereas the new orientation of the common agricultural policy
should lead to better balance on the markets and improve the
competitiveness of Community agriculture;
(2)Whereas the common organization of the market in rice mustinclude acommon price system for the Community; wherea s
that system may be established by fixing an intervention price
for paddy rice valid for the whole Community at which thecompetent agencies are obliged to buy in the rice which isoffered to them;
(3)Whereas, under the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade nego-tiations, the Community has undertaken gradually to reduce thecustoms duties resulting from the tarification of the former levysystem; whereas the reduction in customs duties must beaccompanied by a fall in Community prices to enable the com-petitiveness of the Community product to be maintained;
whereas, to prevent income losses for producers resulting from
the aforementioned reduction in institutional prices, it is appro-priate to establish a system of compensatory payments for pro-duction granted per hectare and intended to maintain presentprofitability levels for the crop, the amount of which is fixedon the basis of the envisaged price reduction and the agronomic
yields recorded in the various Member States over a period con-
sidered to be representative; whereas for this purpose it isappropriate to choose the highest result between:
— the average of the three years obtained by eliminating the
one in which the yield is highest and the one in which the
yield was lowest during the period 1990/91 to 1994/95,
— the average of the three years 1992/93, 1993/94 and 1994/
95;
(4)Whereas it is necessary to determine certain conditions concern-
ing claims for compensatory payments and to specify the dateof payment to producers;
(5)Whereas the introduction of the aforementioned system of com-pensatory payments per hectare renders it appropriate to laydown a base area per producing Member State; whereas thatdetermination should reflect the area cultivated during the last
year of production available in statistical terms; whereas, how-
ever, in order to take account of drought, in the case of Spainand Portugal it is appropriate to take account of the last yearavailable by region except for regions affected by drought,where the last year before the drought is taken into account;whereas as regards French Guiana it is appropriate to lay down
the base area in accordance with the one which is the subject
of the arrangements provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation(EEC) No 3763/91 introducing specific measures in respect of1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 2
(1) Opinion delivered on 14 December 1995 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
(2) Opinion delivered on 23 November 1995 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
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certain agricultural products for the benefit of the French over-
seas departments(1); whereas such a determination makes it
possible to maintain production objectives compatible with the
requirements of the market and to comply with the undertakings
accepted under the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade nego-tiations concerning trade exports; whereas compliance with thebase area can be ensured, in the event of overshooting, by redu-cing the aid sufficiently to dissuade producers from exceeding
the maximum;
(6)Whereas a system of intervention should be set up in order tobalance the market; whereas the intervention period should be
limited to four months in order to preserve the original purposeof intervention and to prevent it becoming an outlet in itself;
(7)Whereas the intervention price should continue to be subject toa certain number of monthly increases in order to take account,inter alia , of storage costs and financial charges for storing rice
in the Community and of the need to ensure that the disposal ofstocks conforms to market requirements;
(8)Whereas there should be a production refund for rice starch and
derived products by analogy with the refund laid down for the
products referred to in Article 7 of Council Regulation (EEC)No 1766/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization ofthe market in cereals(
2) with which they compete;
(9)Wheres the creation of a single Community market for riceinvolves the introduction of a single trading system at the exter-nal frontiers of the Community; whereas a trading systemincluding import duties and export refunds, in addition to the
intervention measures, should, in principle, stabilize the Com-
munity market; whereas the trading system is based on theundertakings given under the Uruguay Round of multilateraltrade negotiations; whereas certain types of rice at the variousstages of processing, in particular indica rice and japonica rice,are identified by means of CN codes; whereas the possibility of
operators knowing, before the arrival of the consignments in
question, the charge to be applied, could facilitate the imple-mentation of international agreements;
(10)Whereas, in order to be able constantly to control trade move-ments, provision should be made for the issue of import andexport licences accompanied by the provision of a securityensuring that the transactions for which such licences are
requested are effected;
(11)Whereas, in order to avoid or curb the harmful effects on themarket in the Community that could result from the importation
of certain products, the importation of one or more of such pro-ducts may be made subject to the payment of additional cus-toms duties if certain conditions are met; whereas a provisionto that effect should therefore be introduced;
(12)Whereas the Commission should be given responsibility foropening and administering the tariff quotas resulting from inter-
national agreements;
(13)Whereas the possibility of granting, on export to third countries,arefund equa l to the difference between prices in the Commu-
nity and on the world market, within the limits laid downwithin the commitments accepted in the Uruguay Round ofmultilateral trade negotiations is likely to preserve Communityparticipation in international rice trade; whereas that possibilityis subject to limits expressed in terms of quantities and value;
(14)Whereas compliance with the limits in terms of value can beensured at the time when refunds are fixed and through moni-1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 3
(1) OJ No L 356, 24. 12. 1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1023/95 (OJ No L 103, 6. 5. 1995, p. 24).
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toring of payments under the rules relating to the European
Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund; whereas monitoringmay be facilitated by the compulsory advance fixing of refunds,
while allowing the possibility, in the case of differentiated
refunds, of changing the specified destination within a geogra-phical area in which a single refund rate applies; whereas, inthe case of a change of destination, the refund applicable to theactual destination should be paid, with a ceiling at the level of
the amount applicable to the destination fixed in advance;
(15)Whereas ensuring compliance with constraints in terms of quan-
tity calls for the introduction of a reliable and effective systemof monitoring; whereas, to that end, the granting of refundsshould be made subject to an export licence; whereas refunds
should be granted up to the limits available, depending on the
particular situation of each product concerned; whereas excep-tions to that rule can only be permitted in the case of processedproducts not listed in Annex II to the Treaty, to which volumeceilings do not apply, and in the case of food-aid operations,which are exempt from any limitation; whereas provision
should be made for derogations from strict compliance with
management rules where exports benefiting from refunds arenot likely to exceed the quantity ceilings laid down; whereasmonitoring of the quantities exported with refunds during themarketing years referred to in the abovementioned international
undertakings will be carried out on the basis of export licences
issued for each marketing year;
(16)Whereas, in addition to the system described above, and to theextent necessary for its proper working, provision should bemade for regulating recourse to inward and outward processing
arrangements or, when the situation on the market so requires,
prohibiting the use of such arrangements;
(17)Whereas the customs duty system makes it possible to dispensewith all other protective measures at the external frontiers ofthe Community; whereas, however, the price and customs duty
mechanism may in exceptional circumstances prove defective;
whereas in such cases, so as not to leave the Community mar-ket without defence against disturbances which may arise there-from, when the import obstacles previously existing have beenabolished, the Community should be enabled to take all neces-sary measures; whereas such measures must comply with the
commitments accepted in the Uruguay Round of multilateral
trade negotiations;
(18)Whereas provision should be made for the possibility of takingmeasures in cases where the Community market is disturbed orcould be disturbed in such a way as to endanger the attainment
of the objectives in Article 39 of the Treaty as a result of
imports or exports;
(19)Whereas there is a risk that the reduction in common pricesfrom the entry into force of this Regulation could entail distur-bances on the internal market; whereas, as a result, provision
should be made for the possibility for the Commission to take
all necessary measures to prevent such disturbances;
(20)Whereas it is necessary that, as the common market in ricedevelops, the Member States and the Commission should keepeach other supplied with the information necessary for applying
this Regulation; whereas this exchange of information is espe-
cially necessary in the case of international commitments;
(21)Whereas the completion of a single market based on a commonprice system would be jeopardized by the granting of certainaids; whereas, therefore, the provisions of the Treaty which
allow the assessment of aids granted by Member States and the
prohibition of those which are incompatible with the singlemarket should be made to apply to rice;
(22)Whereas, in order to facilitate implementation of the aforemen-tioned provisions, aprocedure should be provided for esta blish-1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 4
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ing close cooperation between Member States and the Commis-
sion within the Management Committee for Cereals;
(23)Whereas the common organization of the market in rice musttake appropriate account, at the same time, of the objectives setout in Articles 39 and 110 of the Treaty;
(24)Whereas expenditure incurred by the Member States as a resultof the obligations arising out of the application of this Regula-tion will be financed by the Community in accordance with
Articles 2 and 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21
April 1970(
1) on the financing of the common agricultural pol-
icy;
(25)Whereas the common organization of the market in rice laiddown in Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76(
2) has been amended
several times; whereas, by reason of their number, their com-plexity and their dispersal among several Official Journals,these texts are difficult to use and thus lack the clarity whichshould be an essential feature of all legislation; whereas, under
these circumstances, they should be consolidated in a new regu-
lation and the aforementioned Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76should be repealed; whereas a large number of Council Regula-tions derived from the basic Regulation which no longer haveany legal basis should be repealed;
(26)Whereas the compensatory payment scheme makes monitoringnecessary; whereas, in order to ensure effective control, provi-sion should be made to introduce this aid scheme into the inte-
grated administration and control system laid down in Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3508/92(
3),
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The common organisation of the market in rice shall comprise a
price and trading system and shall cover the following products:
CN code Description
(a) 1006 10 Rice in the husk (paddy or rough rice)
1006 20 Husked (brown) rice
1006 30 Semi-milled rice or wholly milled rice, whether
or not polished or glazed
(b)1006 40 00 Broken rice
(c) 1102 30 00 Rice flour
1103 14 00 Groats and meal of rice1103 29 50 Pellets of rice1104 19 91 Flaked rice1108 19 10 Rice starch.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation, the terms ‘paddy rice’,
‘husked rice’, ‘semi-milled rice’, ‘wholly milled rice’, ‘round grain
rice’, ‘medium grain rice’, ‘long grain rice’ and ‘broken rice’ aredefined in Annex A.1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 5
(1) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2048/88 (OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 1).
(2) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1530/95 (OJ No L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 5).
(3) OJ No L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 3235/94 (OJ No L 338, 28. 12. 1994, p. 16).▼M1
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3. This Regulation shall apply to rice in the husk (paddy or rough
rice) for sowing covered by CN code 1006 10 10 solely for the pur-poses of the system of compensatory payments provided for in Article
6.
TITLE I
PRICES
Article 2
The marketing year for all the products listed in Article 1 shall begin
on 1 September and end on 31 August of the following year.
Article 3
1. The intervention price for paddy rice shall be:
— ECU 351,00/t for the 1996/97 marketing year,
— ECU 333,45/t for the 1997/98 marketing year,— ECU 315,90/t for the 1998/99 marketing year,— ECU 298,35/t for the 1999/2000 and subsequent marketing years.
The intervention price shall be fixed for a standard quality defined by
the Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from theCommission.
2. The intervention price shall be subject to monthly increases dur-
ing each of the four months provided for in Article 4 (1). The pricethus obtained for the month of July shall remain valid until 31
August. The amounts of the monthly increases shall be determined in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of theTreaty.
3. The intervention price shall relate to the wholesale stage, deliv-
ered at warehouse, before unloading. It shall apply to all interventioncentres designated pursuant to Article 8.
Article 4
1. During the period from 1 April to 31 July the intervention agen-
cies shall buy in the quantities of paddy rice which are offered to
them provided the offers comply with conditions, in particular in
respect of quantity and quality, to be determined.
2. If the quality of the paddy rice offered is different from the stan-
dard quality for which the intervention price has been fixed, the inter-vention price shall be adjusted by applying price increases or reduc-tions. In order to ensure that production is orientated towards certainvarieties, price increases and reductions to be applied to the interven-
tion price may be fixed.
3. Under conditions to be determined, intervention agencies shall
offer for sale, for export to third countries or for supply to the internalmarket, paddy rice bought in pursuant to paragraph 1.
Article 5
Special measures may be taken to:
— prevent large-scale application of Article 4 in certain regions of
the Community,
— make up for paddy rice shortages following natural disasters.
Article 6
1. Community rice producers may claim compensatory payment
under the conditions laid down in this Article and in accordance withdetailed rules to be determined.
2. The compensatory payment shall be fixed per hectare of land
under rice sown and shall be differentiated by Member State.1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 6
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3. The amounts of the compensatory payment shall be as follows:
ECU/ha1997/98 1998/991999/2000 and
after
Spain 111,44 222,89 334,33
France
— metropolitan territory 96,35 192,70 289,05
— French Guiana 131,80 263,60 395,40
Greece
— departments of Thessa-
loniki, Serres and Fthio-
tida131,27 262,55 393,82
— other departments 131,27 262,55 393,82
Italy 106,00 212,00 318,01
Portugal 106,18 212,36 318,53
In order to pursue a better orientation of production, the amounts of
the compensatory payment may be varied by applying price increasesor reductions depending on the variety.
The compensatory payments shall be made between 16 October and
31 December following the start of the marketing year in question.
4. A national base area for each producer Member State is hereby
established. However, for France and Greece two base areas are estab-
lished. The base areas shall be as follows:
Spain 104 973 ha
France— metropolitan territory 24 500 ha— French Guiana 5 500 haGreece— departments of Thessaloniki, Serres and Fthiotida 22 330 ha— other departments 2 561 haItaly 239 259 haPortugal 34 000 ha
5. Where the areas given over to rice in a given year exceed one
of the base areas indicated in paragraph 4, a reduction of the amount
of the compensatory payment shall be applied to all producers in the
base area in question for the same production year equal to:
— three times the rate of overrun if it is less than 1 %,
— four times the rate of overrun if it is equal to or greater than 1 %
but less than 3 %,
— five times the rate of overrun if it is equal to or greater than 3 %
but less than 5 %,
— six times the rate of overrun if it is equal to or greater than 5 %.
Where the preceding subparagraph is applied, the Member State con-
cerned shall, before a date fixed in accordance with the procedure laiddown in Article 22 of this Regulation, determine the scale of thereductions to be applied to the compensatory payment. It shall pre-viously inform the Commission and as quickly as possible thereof.1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 7
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with detailed information, broken down by variety, on areas, yieldsand production, and stocks at producers and processors. Such informa-
tion must be based on a system providing for compulsory declarations
by producers and processors set up, administered and monitored bythe Member State.
Article 7
1. Under conditions to be determined, aproduction refund ma y be
granted for starch and certain derived products, obtained from rice
and broken rice, used in the manufacture of certain products.
2. The refund referred to in paragraph 1 shall be fixed periodically.
Article 8
Detailed rules for the application of this Title shall be adopted in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22, in particular:
(a) the list of intervention centres provided for in Article 3 (3). This
list shall be adopted after consultation with the Member Statesconcerned and shall include in particular intervention centres insurplus areas which have sufficient premises and technical equip-
ment and are in a favourable situation as regards means of trans-
port;
(b) detailed rules for the application of Article 4. These shall com-
prise in particular:
— the minimum quality and quantity required for intervention,
— the price increases and reductions applicable to intervention,— the procedures and conditions for taking over by the interven-
tion agencies and any other rules relating to intervention,
— the procedures and conditions for disposal by the intervention
agencies;
(c) the type and application of the measures provided for in Article 5;
(d) detailed rules for the application of Article 6 and the price
increases and reductions applicable to the compensatory payment;
(e) detailed rules for the application of Article 7 and for fixing the
refunds and establishing the list of products provided for in thatArticle.
TITLE II
TRADE WITH THIRD COUNTRIES
Article 9
1. Imports into the Community, or exports thereform, of any of the
products listed in Article 1 shall be subject to presentation of animport or export licence.
Licences shall be issued by the Member States to any applicant, irre-
spective of his place of establishment in the Community and without
prejudice to measures taken for the application of Articles 13 and 14.
Import and export licences shall be valid throughout the Community.
Such licences shall be issued subject to the lodging of a security guar-anteeing that the products are imported or exported during the term ofvalidity of the licence; except in cases of force majeure , the security
shall be forfeited in whole or in part if import or export is not carried
out, or is only carried out partially, within that period.
2. The term of validity of licences and other detailed rules for the
application of this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the pro-cedure laid down in Article 22.1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 8
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Article 10
1. A subsidy may be fixed for consignments to the French overseas
department of Réunion, intended for consumption there, of products
falling within CN code 1006 (excluding code 1006 10 10) which comefrom the Member States and are in one of the situations referred to inArticle 9 (2) of the Treaty.
That subsidy shall be fixed, taking into account the supply require-
ments of the Réunion market, on the basis of the difference betweenthe quotations or prices of the relevant products on the world marketand the quotations or prices of those products on the Community mar-ket, and, if necessary, the price of those products delivered to Réu-nion.
The subsidy shall be granted on application by the party concerned.
The subsidy may be fixed, where appropriate, by a tendering proce-dure. Such tendering procedure shall relate to the amount of the sub-sidy.
The subsidy shall be fixed periodically in accordance with the proce-
dure laid down in Article 22. However, where the need arises, theCommission may, in the interval, at the request of a Member State oron its own initiative, alter the subsidy.
2. The rules on the financing of the common agricultural policy
shall apply to the subsidy provided for in paragraph 1.
3. Detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted
in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22.
Article 11
1. Unless this Regulation provides otherwise, the rates of duty in
the Common Customs Tariff shall apply to the products listed in Arti-cle 1.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, the import duty on:
(a) husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20 shall be equal to the
intervention price valid on importation, increased by:
— 80 % in the case of husked rice falling within CN codes
1006 20 17 and 1006 20 98,
— 88 % in the case of husked rice falling within CN codes other
than 1006 20 17 or 1006 20 98,
minus the import price; and
(b) wholly milled rice falling within CN code 1006 30 shall be equal
to the intervention price at the time of importation, plus a percen-tage to be calculated and minus the import price.
However, that duty may not exceed the rate of duty in the Common
Customs Tariff.
The percentage referred to in (b) shall be calculated by adjusting the
respective percentage referred to in (a) by reference to the conversionrate, processing costs and the value of by-products, and then addingan amount for the protection of the industry.
3. Notwithstanding paragraph 1:
(a) no duty shall be charged on imports of products falling within CN
codes 1006 10, 1006 20 or 1006 40 00 into the French overseasdepartment of Réunion, intended for consumption there;
(b) the duty to be charged on imports of products falling within CN
code 1006 30 into the French overseas department of Réunion,
intended for consumption there, shall be multiplied by a coeffi-
cient of 0,30.
4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted
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— fix the conversion rates for rice at various states of processing, the
processing costs and the value of by-products referred to in para-graph 2,
— fix the amount for the protection of the industry and include the
necessary provisions for determining and calculating import pricesand checking their authenticity,
— include the possibility, if appropriate, in specific cases, of enabling
operators to know the charge which will be applied prior to theconsignments concerned.
Article 12
1. Without prejudice to Article 11 (2), in order to prevent or coun-
teract adverse effects on the market in the Community which mayresult from imports of certain products listed in Article 1, imports ofone or more of such products at the rate of duty laid down in Article11 shall be subject to payment of an additional import duty if the con-
ditions set out in Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture concluded
in accordance with Article 228 of the Treaty in the framework of theUruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations have been fulfilledunless the imports are unlikely to disturb the Community market, orwhere the effects would be disproportionate to the intended objective.
2. The trigger prices below which an additional duty may be
imposed shall be those forwarded by the Community to the World
Trade Organization.
The trigger volumes to be exceeded in order to have the additional
import duty imposed shall be determined particularly on the basis ofimports into the Community in the three years preceding the year in
which the adverse effects referred to in paragraph 1 arise or are likely
to arise.
3. The import prices to be taken into consideration for imposing an
additional import duty shall be determined on the basis of the cifimport prices of the consignment in question.
The cif import prices to be taken into consideration for this purpose
shall be determined on the basis of representative prices for the pro-duct in question on the world market or on the Community importmarket for the product.
4. The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for the application of
this Article in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22.
Such detailed rules shall concern in particular:
(a) the products to which additional import duties may be applied
under the terms of Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture andthe special provisions to be applied to the products referred to in
Article 11 (2) with particular regard to the provisions for deter-
mining the import prices to be taken into consideration for thepurpose of applying an additional import duty;
(b) the fixing of the repesentative prices and the other criteria neces-
sary to ensure application of paragraph 1 in accordance with Arti-cle 5 of the said Agreement.
Article 13
1. To the extent necessary to enable the products listed in Article 1
to be exported without further processing or in the form of goods
listed in Annex B on the basis of quotations or prices for those pro-
ducts on the world market and within the limits resulting from agree-ments concluded in accordance with Article 228 of the Treaty, the dif-ference between those quotations or prices and prices in the Commu-nity may be covered by an export refund.
Export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 in the form of goods
listed in Annex B may not be higher than those applicable to suchproducts exported without further processing.
2. The method to be adopted for the allocation of the quantities
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(a) is most suited to the nature of the product and the situation on the
market in question, allowing the most efficient possible use of theresource available, taking into account the effectiveness and struc-
ture of Community exports without, however, creating discrimina-
tion between large and small operators;
(b) is the least cumbersome administratively for operators, taking
account of administrative requirements;
(c) prevents any discrimination between the operators concerned.
3. Refunds shall be the same for the whole Community. They may
vary according to destination, where the world market situation or the
specific requirements of certain markets make this necessary.
Refunds shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 22. Refunds may be fixed:
(a) at regular intervals;
(b) by invitation to tender for products for which that procedure was
laid down in the past.
Refunds fixed at regular intervals may, where necessary, be adjusted
in the intervening period by the Commission at the request of a Mem-
ber State or on its own initiative.
Refunds fixed at regular intervals for the products referred to in Arti-
cle 1 (1) (a) and (b) shall be fixed at least once a month.
4. The following shall be taken into account when refunds are
being fixed:
(a) the existing situation and future trends with regard to:
— prices and availability of rice and broken rice on the Commu-
nity market;
— prices of rice and broken rice on the world market;
(b) the aims of the common organization of the market in rice, which
are to ensure equilibrium and the natural development of pricesand trade on this market;
(c) limits resulting from agreements concluded in accordance with
Article 228 of the Treaty;
(d) the need to avoid disturbances on the Community market;
(e) the economic aspects of the proposed exports.
When the amount of the refund is set, account shall be taken in parti-
cular of the need to establish a balance between the use of basic Com-munity agricultural products for export as processed goods to thirdcountries and the use of basic agricultural products from these coun-tries admitted for inward processing.
5. Refunds for products listed in Article 1 (1) (a) and (b) shall be
fixed in accordance with the following specific criteria:
(a) prices for those products obtaining on the various representative
export markets of the Community;
(b) the most favourable quotations recorded on the various markets of
importing third countries; and
(c) marketing costs and the most favourable transport charges from
the Community markets referred to in (a) to ports or other pointsof export in the Community serving these markets, as well ascosts incurred in placing the goods on the world market.
6. Where refunds are fixed by a tendering procedure, such tender-
ing procedure shall relate to the amount of the refund.
7. Refunds on products listed in Article 1 and exported without
further processing shall only be granted on application and on presen-
tation of the relevant export licence.
8. The refund applicable to exports of products listed in Article 1
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of application for the licence and, in the case of a differentiated
refund, that applicable on the same day for:
(a) the destination indicated on the licence;
or
(b) the actual destination if it differs from the destination indicated on
the licence. In that case, the amount applicable may not exceedthe amount applicable for the destination indicated on the licence.
Appropriate measures may be taken to prevent abuse of the flexibility
provided for in this paragraph.
9. Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be applied to products listed in Article
1 and exported in the form of goods listed in Annex B in accordancewith the procedure laid down in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No3448/93(
1).
10. Paragraphs 7 and 8 may be waived in the case of products
listed in Article 1 on which refunds are paid under food-aid opera-tions, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22.
11. Save as otherwise provided in accordance with the procedure
laid down in Article 22, the refund on products listed in Article 1 (1)(a) and (b) applicable in accordance with paragraph 4 shall be
adjusted in line with the amount of monthly increases applicable to
the intervention price and, where appropriate, variations in that price,depending on the degree of processing and using the applicable con-version rate.
A corrective amount may be fixed in accordance with the procedure
laid down in Article 22. However, the Commission may, where neces-sary, alter the corrective amounts.
The first and second subparagraphs may be applied, in whole or in
part, to products listed in Article 1 (1) (c) and to products listed inArticle 1 and exported in the form of goods listed in Annex B. In thatcase, the adjustment referred to in the first subparagraph shall be cor-rected by applying a coefficient expressing the ratio between the quan-
tity of basic product and the quantity of the latter contained in the
processed product exported or used in the goods exported.
12. The refund on the products referred to in Article 1 (a) and (b)
shall be paid upon proof that:
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M1the products have been wholly obtained in the Community
within the meaning of Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92, except where paragraph 13 applies ◄,
— the products have been exported from the Community,
and
— in the case of a differentiated refund, the products have reached
the destination indicated on the licence or another destination for
which a refund was fixed, without prejudice to paragraph 8 (b).
Exceptions may be made to this rule in accordance with the proce-dure laid down in Article 22, provided conditions are laid downwhich offer equivalent guarantees.
Additional provisions may be adopted in accordance with the proce-
dure laid down in Article 22.
13.►
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and re-exported to third countries, unless the exporter proves that:
— the product to be exported and the product previously imported are
one and the same,
— all the import duties were collected on the product's release for
free circulation. ◄
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applicable, where the duties collected on importation are higher than
that refund, the latter shall apply.
14. Compliance with the limits on volumes arising from agreements
concluded in accordance with Article 228 of the Treaty shall beensured on the basis of the export licences issued for the reference
periods provided for therein and applicable to the products concerned.
With regard to compliance with the obligations arising under theagreements concluded as part of the Uruguay Round, the ending of areference period shall not affect the validity of export licences.
15. Detailed rules for the application of this Article, including pro-
visions concerning the reallocation of quantities exported not allocatedor not used, in particular as regards the adjustment referred to in para-
graph 11, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid
down in Article 22. Annex B shall be amended in accordance withthe same procedure. However, detailed rules for the application ofparagraph 7 to products referred to in Article 1 and exported in theform of goods referred to in the Annex shall be adopted in accordancewith the procedure laid down in Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No
3448/93.
Article 14
1. To the extent necessary for the proper working of the common
organization of the market in rice, the Council, acting on a proposalfrom the Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, may in special cases prohibit in whole or
in part the use of inward or outward processing arrangements inrespect of products listed in Article 1.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, if the situation referred
to in paragraph 1 arises with exceptional urgency and the Communitymarket is disturbed or is liable to be disturbed by the inward or out-ward processing arrangements, the Commission shall, at the request of
a Member State or on its own initiative, decide upon the necessary
measures; the Council and the Member States shall be notified ofsuch measures, which shall be valid for no more than six months andshall be immediately applicable. If the Commission receives a requestfrom a Member State, it shall take a decision thereon within a weekfollowing receipt of the request.
3. The Commission decision may be referred to the Council by any
Member State within a week of the day on which it was notified. The
Council, acting by a qualified majority, may confirm, amend or repeal
the Commission decision. If the Council has not acted within threemonths, the Commission decision shall be deemed to have beenrepealed.
Article 15
1. The general rules for the interpretation in the combined nomen-
clature and the special rules for its application shall apply to the tariffclassification of products covered by this Regulation; the tariff nomen-clature resulting from the application of this Regulation, including thedefinitions listed in Annex A, shall be incorporated in the CommonCustoms Tariff.
2. Save as otherwise provided for in this Regulation or in provi-
sions adopted pursuant thereto, the following shall be prohibited:
— the levying of any charge having equivalent effect to a customs
duty,
— the application of any quantitative restriction on imports or mea-
sure having equivalent effect.
Article 16
1. Where the quotations or prices on the world market for one or
more of the products listed in Article 1 (a) and (b) reach the level ofCommunity prices and where that situation is likely to continue and to1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 13
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deteriorate, thereby disturbing or threatening to disturb the Community
market, appropriate measures may be taken.
2. Quotations or prices on the world market shall be regarded as
having reached the level of Community prices when they approach orexceed the intervention price, increased by:
— 80 % in the case of the husked rice falling within CN codes
1006 20 17 and 1006 20 98,
and
— 88 % in the case of the husked rice falling within CN codes other
than 1006 20 17 or 1006 20 98.
3. The situation referred to in paragraph 1 shall be regarded as
likely to persist or deteriorate where there is an imbalance betweensupply and demand and where that imbalance is likely to continue inview of foreseeable production and market price trends.
4. The Community market shall be regarded as being disturbed or
threatened with disturbance, as a result of the situation referred to inthe preceding paragraphs, where international trade prices are so highas to impede importation of products listed in Article 1 into the Com-munity or to provoke their export from the Community, thereby jeo-
pardizing market stability or security of supplies.
5. Where the conditions in this Article are met, the following mea-
sures may be taken:
— application of an export levy; in addition, a special export levy
ma y be determined by atendering procedure in respect of afixedquantity,
— fixing of atime limit for the issue of export licences,
— total or partial suspension of the issue of export licences,— total or partial rejection of outstanding applications for the issue of
export licences.
These measures shall be repealed at the latest when it is found that,
for a period of three consecutive weeks, the condition stated in para-
graph 2 is no longer fulfilled.
6. The following shall be taken into account when an export levy
is being fixed for products listed in Article 1 (1) (a) and (b):
(a) the existing situation and the future trend with regard to:
— prices and availability of rice on the Community market,
— prices for rice and processed products in the rice sector on the
world market;
(b) the aims of the common organization of the market in the rice
sector, which are to ensure equilibrium for both supply and trade;
(c) the need to avoid disturbances on the Community market;
(d) the economic aspect of the exports.
7. When the export levy on the products listed in Article 1 (1) (c)
is being fixed, the factors listed in paragraph 6 shall apply. In addi-
tion, the following specific factors shall be taken into account:
(a) prices obtaining for broken rice on the various Community mar-
kets;
(b) the quantity of broken rice necessary to manufacture the products
under consideration and, where appropriate, the value of the by-products;
(c) sale opportunities and conditions for the products in question on
the world market.
8. Where the situation on the world market and the specific
requirements of certain markets so require, the export levy may bedifferentiated.
9. The export levy to be charged shall be the one applicable on the
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requests at the time of requesting the licence, to an export to be car-
ried out during the period of validity of the licence.
10. No levy may be applied to exports carried out under food-aid
arrangements pursuant to Article 13 (10).
11. Detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be
adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 22.
In accordance with the same procedure and for each of the products:
— a decision shall be taken to establish the measures listed in para-
graph 5 and put an end to the measures listed in the second andthird indents of that paragraph,
— the export levy shall be fixed periodically.
Where necessary, the Commission may establish or modify the export
levy.
12. In urgent cases, the Commission may take the measures
referred to in the third and fourth indents of paragraph 5. It shallnotify its decision to the Member States and shall publish it on thenotice boards at its headquarters. The measures shall, by virtue ofsuch a decision, be applied to the relevant products from the date spe-cified to that end, which shall be subsequent to the date of notifica-
tion. The decision on the measures referred to in the third indent of
paragraph 5 shall be applicable for a period not exceeding seven days.
Article 17
1. If, by reason of imports or exports, the Community market in
one or more of the products listed in Article 1 is affected by, or is
threatened with, serious disturbance likely to jeopardize the achieve-
ment of the objectives set out in Article 39 of the Treaty, appropriatemeasures may be applied in trade with third countries until such dis-turbance or threat of disturbance has ceased.
The Council, acting on a proposal from the Commission in accordance
with the procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty, shalladopt the general rules for the application of this paragraph and shalldefine in what cases and within what limits Member States may take
protective measures.
2. If the situation referred to in paragraph 1 arises, the Commission
shall, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative, decide
upon the necessary measures. The Member States shall be notified of
such measures which shall be immediately applicable. If the Commis-sion receives a request from a Member State, it shall take a decisionthereon within three working days following receipt of the request.
3. Measures decided upon by the Commission may be referred to
the Council by any Member States within three working days of theday on which they were notified. The Council shall meet withoutdelay. It may, acting by a qualified majority, amend or annul the mea-
sure in question.
4. This Article shall be applied having regard to the obligations
arising from agreements concluded in accordance with Article 228 (2)
of the Treaty.
TITLE III
GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 18
Goods listed in Article 1 which are manufactured or obtained from
products not referred to in Articles 9 (2) or 10 (1) of the Treaty shallnot be admitted for free circulation within the Community.1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 15
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Article 19
Save as otherwise provided in this Regulation, Articles 92, 93 and 94
of the Treaty shall apply to the production and marketing of the pro-ducts listed in Article 1.
Article 20
Article 40 (4) of the Treaty and the provisions adopted to implement
that Article shall apply as regards the European Agricultural Guidanceand Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, to the French overseasdepartments in respect of the products listed in Article 1.
Article 21
The Member States and the Commission shall communicate to each
other the information necessary for implementing this Regulation. Thearrangements for communicating and disseminating this informationshall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Arti-
cle 22.
Article 22
Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed, the
chairman shall refer the matter to the Management Committee for
Cereals established by Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92hereinafter called the ‘committee’, either on his own initiative or atthe request of the representative of a Member State.
All the provisions of Articles 22 and 23 of the abovementioned Regu-
lation regarding the committee shall apply.
Article 23
The committee may consider any other question referred to it by its
chairman either on his own initiative or at the request of the represen-
tative of a Member State.
Article 24
This Regulation shall be applied in such a way as to take appropriate
and simultaneous account of the objectives laid down in Articles 39
and 110 of the Treaty.
Article 25
1. Annex B to Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 shall be replaced by
Annex B to this Regulation as from 1 January 1996.
2. Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 shall be repealed from the 1996/
97 marketing year.
3. References made to the Regulation repealed by paragraph 1 shall
be construed as being made to this Regulation and should be read inaccordance with the correlation table in Annex C.
4. The following Regulations shall be repealed from the 1996/97
marketing year:
— Regulation (EEC) No 1422/76(
1),
— Regulation (EEC) No 1424/76(2),
— Regulation (EEC) No 1425/76(3),
— Regulation (EEC) No 1426/76(4),
— Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87(5),1995R3072 — EN — 15.07.2000 — 003.001 — 16
(1) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 18.
(2) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
(3) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 26.
(4) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 28.
(5) OJ No L 363, 24. 12. 1987, p. 3.
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5. To facilitate the changeover from the present common organiza-
tion of the market in rice to that provided for by this Regulation or tofacilitate the changeover from one marketing year to another during
the 1996-97 and 1997-98 marketing years, the Commission may take
whatever transitional measures are deemed necessary, in accordancewith►
C1procedure laid down in Article 22. ◄
6. The following indent shall be added to Article 1 (1) (a) of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3508/92:
‘— the aid scheme for rice producers, established by Article 6 of
Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 (*).
(*) OJ No L 329 of 30. 12. 1995, p. 18.’
Article 26
The measures specified in Title I of this Regulation shall be consid-
ered to be intervention within the meaning of Article 3 (1) of Regula-tion (EEC) No 729/70.
Article 27
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in
theOfficial Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from the 1996/97 marketing year, except for Article 5
and Article 25 (1) and (5), which shall apply from 1 January 1996.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
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ANNEX A
DEFINITIONS
1. (a)Paddy: rice which has retained its husk after threshing;
(b)husked rice : paddy rice from which only the husk has been removed.
Examples of rice falling within this definition are those with the com-
mercial descriptions ‘brown rice’, ‘cargo rice, loonzain’ and ‘riso sbra-
mato’;
(c)semi-milled rice : paddy rice from which the husk, part of the germ and
the whole or part of the outer layers of the pericarp but not the inner
layers have been removed;
(d)wholly milled rice : paddy rice from which the husk, the whole of the
outer and inner layers of the pericarp, the whole of the germ in the case
of long grain or medium grain rice and at least part thereof in the case
of round grain rice have been removed, but in which longitudinal white
striations may remain on not more than 10 % of the grains.
2. (a)Round grain rice : rice, the grains of which are of a length not exceed-
ing 5,2 mm and of a length/width ratio of less than 2;
(b)medium grain rice : rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding
5,2 mm but not exceeding 6,0 mm and of a length/width ratio no
greater than 3;
(c)long grain rice :
(A) rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 6,0 mm and of
which the length/width ratio is greater than 2 but less than 3;
(B) rice, the grains of which are of a length exceeding 6,0 mm and of
which the length/width ratio is equal to or greater than 3;
(d)measurements of the grains : grain measurements are taken on wholly
milled rice by the following method:
(i) take a representative sample from the consignment;
(ii) sieve the sample so as to retain only whole grains including imma-
ture grains;
(iii) carry out two measurements consisting of 100 grains each and find
the average;
(iv) express the result in millimetres, rounded off to one decimal place.
3.Broken rice : grain fragments the length of which does not exceed three
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ANNEX B
CN code Description
ex 0403 Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yoghurt, kephir
and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, fla-
voured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa,
whether or not concentrated or containing sugar or
other sweetening matter:
0403 10 – Yoghurt:
0403 10 51 to
0403 10 99– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa
0403 90 – Other:
0403 90 71 to
0403 90 99– – Flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa
ex 1704 Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not
containing cocoa:
1704 90 51 to
1704 90 99– – Other
ex 1806 Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa,
except goods of subheadings 1806 10, 1806 20 70,
1806 90 60, 1806 90 70 and 1806 90 90
ex 1901 Malt extract; food preparations of flour, meal, starch or
malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less
than 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally
defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included;
food preparations of goods of headings No 0401 to
0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 %
by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted
basis, not elsewhere specified or included:
1901 10 00 – Preparations for infant use, put up for retail sale
1901 20 00 – Mixes and doughs for the preparation of bakers'
wares of heading No 1905
1901 90 – Other:
1901 90 11 to
1901 90 19– – Malt extract
– – Other:
1901 90 99 – – – Other
ex 1902 Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or
other substances) or otherwise prepared, such as spa-
ghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi, ravioli, can-
nelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared:
1902 20 91 – – – Cooked
1902 20 99 – – – Other
1902 30 – Other pasta:1902 40 90 – – Other
1904 Prepared foods obtained by the swelling or roasting of
cereals or cereal products (for example, corn flakes);
cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the
form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour and
meal), pre-cooked or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere
specified or included
ex 1905 Bread, pastry, cake, biscuits and other bakers' wares,
whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers,
empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical
use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products:
1905 90 20 Communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable
for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and
similar products.
ex 2004 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of
heading No 2006:
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CN code Description
– – Other:
2004 10 91 – – – In the form of flour, meal or flakes
ex 2005 Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than
by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than pro-
ducts of heading No 2006:
– Potatoes:
2005 20 10 – – In the form of flour, meal or flakes
ex 2101 Extracts, essences and concentrates of coffee, tea or
maté and preparations with a basis of these products or
with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and
other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences
and concentrates thereof:
2101 12 – – Preparations with a basis of these extracts,
essences or concentrates or with a basis of coffee:
2101 12 98 – – – Other
2101 20 – Extracts, essences and concentrates, of tea or maté,
and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences
or concentrates, or with a basis of tea or maté:
2101 20 98 – – – Other
2105 00 Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not contain-
ing cocoa
2106 Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included:
– Other:
2106 90 10 – – Cheese fondues
– – Other:
2106 90 92 – – – Containing no milk fats, sucrose, isoglucose,
glucose or starch or containing, by weight, less than
1,5 % milk fat, 5 % sucrose or isoglucose, 5 % glu-
cose or starch
2106 90 98 – – – Other
ex 3505 Dextrins and other modified starches (for example preg-
elatinised starches); glues based on starches, or on dex-
trins or other modified starches, except starches of No
3505 10 50
ex 3809 Finishing agents, dye carriers to accelerate the dyeing
or fixing of dyestuffs and other products and prepara-
tions (for example, dessings and mordants), of a kind
used in the textile, paper, leather or like industries, not
elsewhere specified or included:
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ANNEX C
TABLE OF CORRELATION
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 This Regulation
Article 1 Article 1
Article 2 Article 2
Article 3 Article 3 (1)
Article 4:
paragraph 1 Article 3 (3)
paragraphs 2 and 3 (b), (c) and
(d)—
paragraph 3 (a) Article 8 (a)
Article 5:
paragraph 1 Article 4 (1)paragraph 2, first subparagraph —paragraph 2, second subparagraph Article 4 (2)paragraph 3 Article 4 (3)paragraph 4 —paragraph 5 Article 8 (b)
Article 6:
first subparagraph Article 5second subparagraph Article 8 (c)
Article 7 Article 3 (2)
— Article 6
Article 8 —
Article 8a—
Article 9:
paragraphs 1 and 2 Article 7paragraph 3 Article 8 (c)— Article 8 (e)
Article 10 Article 9
Article 11 Article 10
Article 12 Article 11
Article 13 Article 12
Article 14 Article 13
Article 15 Article 14
Article 16 Article 15
Article 17 Article 16
Article 18 Article 17
Article 23 Article 18
Article 24 Article 19
Article 25 —
— Article 20
Article 25a—
Article 26 Article 21
Article 27 Article 22
Article 28 Article 23
Article 29 Article 24
Article 30 Article 25— Article 26
Article 31 Article 27
Annex A Annex A
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Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 This Regulation
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