CELEX: 31990R0791
Language: en
Date: 1990-03-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 791/90 of 30 March 1990 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 85/6                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 31 . 3 . 90
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 791/90
                                                        of 30 March 1990
                                      fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the
                                                                    goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No
 Economic Community,                                                1423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by
                                                                    applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
 Portugal,
                                                                    Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76               grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
 No 1806/89 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,          each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    tion, the conversion rates resulting from Regulation No
 883/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for             467/67/EEC of the Commission of 21 August 1967 fixing
the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86              the conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of
on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati               the by-products for the various stages of rice proces­
variety falling under CCT No ex 40.06 B I and II (3), as            sing (®), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1546/87 (4), and in                  should be used where appropriate ;
particular Article 8 thereof,                             ,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
                                                                    Commission must take account of the fact that certain
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                   offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                 broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly            must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­        one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;               67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,            prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                    rice taken into consideration are lower than those
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;              provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
                                                                    lation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1989/90              Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2120/89 0 ;                                                         are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
                                                                    up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the             applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in            tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in Regu­              for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
lation (EEC) No 1613/71 of the Commission of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and          Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                    basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
relating thereto (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 (*), and in particular the most favourable               tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are              relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances             Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
(') OJ No   L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                              calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
(2) OJ No   L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                              following month or may be retained unaltered for a
(3) OJ No   L 80, 24. 3 . 1987, p. 20.                              limited period ;
(4) OJ No   L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 10.
O   OJ No   L 203, 15. 7. 1989, p. 17.
(«) OJ No   L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                           (•) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
f)  OJ No   L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .                             O OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                  not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and          price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating        grain rice ;
to them must be reduced by a fixed amount and by an
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to                Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles 12 and 13           the intervening period to take account of variations in
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990               threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products             prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­            rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the           tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
overseas countries and territories (OCT)('), the levy must          increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
be further reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly            the amount of the levy in force ;
milled rice ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                    should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,
the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from                      of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas; under                 the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                   tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying                      tion (EEC) No 1 636/87 (%
to trade in agricultural products between Spain and                 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
Portugal (2), as last amended by Commissions Regulation                  arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
(EEC) No 3296/88 (3), the same arrangements are to be                    these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
applied in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
applied pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that                  previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
levy should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into                 Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
account the situation with regard to market prices in               provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain           Annex hereto,
the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31
December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                                             Article 1
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
                                                                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4)                     Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                    shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
defined a special arrangement for the importation of
certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;
whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of                                        Article 2
that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 1990.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 March 1990.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ   No L  84, 30. 3 . 1990, p. 85.
0   OJ   No L  367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
(3) OJ   No L  293, 27. 10. 1988 , p. 7.                            (*) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ   No L  361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                           O OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                              ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 March 1990 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                            broken rice
                                                                                                                 (ECU/ tonne)
                                                             Arrangement              ACP or OCT
                                                                                                           Third countries
                   CN code                 Portugal       in Regulation (EEC)                           (except ACP or OCT)
                                                              No 3877/86                 ooo­                     0
                 1006 10 21                                                              153,05                313,30
                 1006 10 23                   —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 10 25                   —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 10 27                   —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 10 92                   —   -                —
                                                                                         153,05                313,30
                 1006 10 94                   —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 10 96                   —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 1 0 98                  —
                                                                 225,44                  146,69                300,58
                 1006 20 11                   —                    —
                                                                                         192,21                391,62
                 1006 20 13                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 20 15                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 20 17                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 20 92                   —                    —
                                                                                         192,21                391,62
                 1006 20 94                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 20 96                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 20 98                   —
                                                                 281,80                  184,26                375,73
                 1006 30 21                 13,05                  —
                                                                                         146,95                517,76
                 1006 30 23                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 25                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 27                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 42                 13,05                  —
                                                                                         246,95                517,76
                 1006 30 44                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 46                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 48                 12,97                443,37                  283,69                591,16
                 1006 30 61                 13,90                  —
                                                                                         263,36                551,42
                 1006 30 63                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 30 65                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 30 67                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 30 92                 13,90                  —
                                                                                         263,36                551,42
                 1006 30 94                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 30 96                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 30 98                 13,90                475,30                  304,51                633,73
                 1006 40 00                   4,91                 —
                                                                                          77,70                 161,41
          (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90.
          (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 71 5/90, the levies are not applied to products imported directly into the
              overseas department of Reunion of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
              overseas countries and territories.
          (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation
              (EEC) No 1418/76.