CELEX: 31967R1018
Language: en
Date: 1967-12-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 1018/67/EEC of the Council of 19 December 1967 supplementing Regulation No 365/67/EEC on rules for the advance fixing of levies on rice and broken rice

318                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
No 311 / 12                   OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                      21.12.67
                               REGULATION No 1018/67/EEC OF TOE COUNCIL
                                                 of 19 December 1967
               supplementing Regulation No 365/67/EEC on rules for the advance fixing of levies on
                                                  rice and broken rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      prices are not fixed for husked rice and milled rice;
                                                               whereas for the latter product the threshold price is
                                                               fixed for round-grained rice in accordance with
                                                               Article 2 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;
                                                               Whereas, therefore, the adjustment for the threshold
                                                               price of the levy fixed in advance for paddy rice and
Having      regard   to    Council     Regulation     No       semi-milled rice, as well as for long-grained milled
359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common                      rice, is relevant only if the conversion rates are
organisation of the market in rice, and in particular          applied to the calculation of the levy itself; whereas
Article 13 (2) thereof;                                        the rules for the advance fixing of levies laid down by
                                                               Regulation No 365/67/EEC2 should therefore be
                                                               clarified to avoid a misapplication of Article 13 (2)
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;             of Regulation No 359/67/EEC consisting of a failure
                                                               to apply these conversion rates ;
Whereas Article 13 (2) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC
provides that the levy applicable to rice and broken
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
rice on the day on which the application for an
import licence is made, adjusted for the threshold
price which will be in force during the expected                                         Article 1
month of importation, may be fixed in advance for
an import to be effected at a later date if the party
concerned so requests ;                                        The following Article 9a shall be added to
                                                               Regulation No 365/67/EEC :
Whereas the levies on paddy rice and semi-milled rice
are not fixed by comparison with a threshold price                 'Article 9a
and a c.i.f. price for these products but are derived
from the levies on husked rice and milled rice                     1.    Where an import levy on paddy rice,
respectively, adjusted by a conversion rate; whereas,              long-grained milled rice or semi-milled rice is
moreover, the levy on milled rice is fixed for                     fixed in advance, the adjustment for the threshold
round-grained rice with the result that the levy to be             price which will be in force at the time of
applied to imported milled or semi-milled                          importation provided for in Article 13 (2) of
long-grained rice must be derived from the levy valid              Regulation No 359/67/EEC shall be made on the
for the corresponding round-grained rice products                  basis of the conversion rates fixed in application
and adjusted by a conversion rate; whereas threshold               of Article 19 (a) of that Regulation.
1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1.                                  2 OJ No 174, . 31.7.1967, p. 32.
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2. Detailed rules for the application of                                       Article 2
paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with
the procedure laid down in Article 26 of                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
Regulation No 359/67/EEC.'                               day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                         of the European Communities.
         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
         States.
         Done at Brussels, 19 December 1967.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                             H. HOECHERL