Council Regulation (EC) No 1532/2007 of 17 December 2007 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 on imports of rice originating in Bangladesh
Date: 2007-12-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Bangladesh, CCT duties, import, originating product, rice

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1532/2007

of 17 December 2007

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 on imports of rice originating in Bangladesh

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular Article 133 thereof,

establishing the European

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 (1)
levies on rice
provides for reductions in the import
imports
from that country. Those reductions corre-
sponded, on the one hand, to amounts fixed in ecus
and, on the other hand, to the amount for the protection
of the industry referred to in Article 14(3) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the
common organisation of the market in rice (2).

Since the arrangement was adopted, numerous changes
have been made to the applicable horizontal rules but
Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 has not been amended
accordingly. The factors provided for in Article 1 of
that Regulation for calculating the duties applicable to
imports must be applied having regard to the horizontal
rules concerned, which creates a risk of diverging
interpretations.

from 1 July 1995, variable import
More particularly,
levies were converted into customs duties,
following
the adoption of Council Regulation (EC) No 3290/94
of 22 December 1994 on the adjustments and tran-
sitional arrangements required in the agriculture sector
in order
concluded
during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade nego-
tiations (3).

to implement

agreements

the

The concept of ‘an amount for the protection of the
industry’ was abolished from 1 July 2006 by Council
Regulation (EC) No 797/2006 of 22 May 2006
amending Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 as regards
the arrangements for importing rice (4).

(1) OJ L 337, 4.12.1990, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 166, 25.6.1976, p. 1. Regulation repealed by Regulation

(EC) No 3072/95 (OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18).

(3) OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105. Regulation as last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 1340/98 (OJ L 184, 27.6.1998, p. 1).

(4) OJ L 144, 31.5.2006, p. 1.

rates

exchange

agricultural

agricultural

to prevent

The switch-over mechanism introduced in 1984 in the
Community agrimonetary system, the purpose of which
was
from
developing in line with monetary rates, was abolished
on 1 February 1995 by Council Regulation (EC) No
150/95 of 23 January 1995 amending Regulation
(EEC) No 3813/92 on the unit of account and the
conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the
policy (5). When Regulation
common
(EEC) No 3813/92 was repealed from 1 January 1999
by Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December
1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
euro (6),
the prices and amounts provided for in the
common agricultural policy (CAP) expressed in ecus
were increased in parallel by applying a correcting
factor of 1,207509,
effects of
bringing the conversion rates used under the CAP back
to a realistic level, and the same coefficient of 1,207509
was therefore applied from 1 February 1995 to the
amounts provided for
in Article 1 of Regulation
(EEC) No 3491/90.

to cancel out

the

(6)

Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 should therefore be
amended to make it clear what factors are to be taken
into account for calculating the import duties applicable
to rice originating in Bangladesh imported under that
Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 3491/90 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Article 1(1) shall be replaced by the following:

‘1.
For imports originating in Bangladesh and within the
limits of the quantities laid down in Article 2, the import
duty on rice falling within CN codes 1006 10 (excluding CN
code 1006 10 10), 1006 20 and 1006 30 shall be equal:

— for paddy rice falling within CN codes 1006 10, with the
exception of CN code 1006 10 10, to the customs duties
fixed in the Common Customs Tariff, less 50 % and less
a further EUR 4,34;

(5) OJ L 22, 31.1.1995, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.

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— for husked rice falling within CN code 1006 20, to the
duty fixed in accordance with Article 11a of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 of 29 September 2003
on the common organisation of the market in rice (*),
less 50 % and less a further EUR 4,34;

— for semi-milled and milled rice falling within CN code
1006 30, to the duty fixed pursuant to Article 11c of
Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003, less EUR 16,78, less a
further 50 % and less EUR 6,52.

___________
(*) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 96. Regulation as last amended

by Regulation (EC) No 797/2006.’;

2. Article 2(1) shall be amended as follows:

(a)

in the first subparagraph,
‘import duty’;

‘levy’ shall be replaced by

stages of milling other

‘The quantities at
than the
husked-rice stage shall be converted using the conversion
rates fixed in Article 1 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC of
the Commission of 21 August 1967 fixing the
conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of
the
rice
processing (4).’;

by-products

stages of

various

the

for

3. footnote 4 shall be amended as follows:

‘(4) OJ 204, 24.8.1967, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88 (OJ L 202, 27.7.1988,
p. 41).’;

4. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall be
adopted in accordance with the procedures laid down in
Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003.’

Article 2

(b) the second subparagraph shall be replaced by the

following:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 2007.

For the Council
The President

J. SILVA