CELEX: 31975R3386
Language: en
Date: 1975-12-31 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3386/75 of the Commission of 30 December 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 334/ 10                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             31 . 12. 75
                               REGULATION ( EEC) No 3386/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 30 December 1975
                                       fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
COMMUNITIES,                                                           and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
Economic Community ;                                                   lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
                                                                       market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                            specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
67/ EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                    1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation , the conversion
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­                 rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
tion (EEC) No 668 /75 (2), and in particular Article 11                67/EEC (9) of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion
(2) thereof ;                                                          rates, the processing costs and the value of the
                                                                       by-products for the various stages of rice processing,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                       as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1484/75 ( 10)
                                                                      should be used where appropriate ;
Whereas Article 1 1 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                 Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                     the Commission must take account of the fact that
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                  certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
to the difference between the threshold price and the                  tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-              standard quality fixed by Regulation No 362/67/EEC
milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies               and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to conform
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                       with the value of one kilogramme of broken rice as
wholly milled rice ;
                                                                       fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as amended by
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                  Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74, whereas no adjustment
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1975/ 76                is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and
marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 892/7 5 (3)                   semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­
and ( EEC) No 2161 /75 (4) ;                                           tion are lower than those provided for in the last
                                                                      subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the               67/ EEC ;
Commission must take account of the factors indi­
cated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC and
in Regulation ( EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last amended
by Regulation ( EEC) No 3320/75 (6), and in particular                Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain
world market which are sufficiently representative of                 offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
the real trend of the market, account being taken in                   product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
particular of the need to prevent sudden variations                   adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­                   fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered                offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
must also be taken into account, whether this quality                 to a product presented in bulk ;
corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regula­
tion No 362/ 67/ EEC ( 7), as last amended by Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 1555/71 (8), or whether adjustments                    Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
need to be made by applying the corrective amounts                     the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
provided for in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No                        for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
 1613/ 71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules                  the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice               port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
and the corrective amounts relating thereto ;
 ') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967. p. 1 .
 :)  OJ   No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 .                             Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
 ;)  OJ   No L 193 , 25 . 7 . 197 5, p. 3 .                            Regulation ( EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
 4)  O 'l No L 220 , 20 . 8 . 1975 , p. 9 .                            may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
 >)  O")  No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
 o)  O 'l No L 328 , 20 . 12 . 1975, p. 32.
 ■') OJ   No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 27 .                              O OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
 s ) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p. 11 .                             ( 10 ) OJ No L 150 , 11 . 6 . 1975, p . 7 .
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 during the following month or may be retained unal­               entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of
 tered for a limited period ;                                       account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in
                                                                    force ;
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
 interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy           levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 No 1599/75 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
 3329/75 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to                    on their effective parity ;
 third countries ; whereas the levy must be further
 reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of                   of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 of 24 June                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 1975 ;                                                                 in the previous subparagraph ;
                                                                   Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 (3) of
 19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in Annex A             tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
                                                                   shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and incorporated in
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of
 the Common Customs Tariff ;                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­                                     Article 1
tion No 359/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for
 in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                  The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Customs Tariff ;                                                   in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
                                                                   67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the table
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
                                                                   annexed to this Regulation .
in the intervening period to take account of variations
 in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine                                    Article 2
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly
 milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy             1976 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 30 December 1975 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               C. P. DRIESPRONG
                                                                                     Director
(') O ) No L 166 , 28 . 6 . 1975 , p . 67 .
(-) OJ No L 329, 2 ?. 12 . 1 975 , p . 6 .
O OJ No L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p . 5 .
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                                                                        ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken rice
                                                                                                                            (u.a. / metric ton)
                   CCT
                                                                                                             Third             ACP and
                 heading                                       Description of goods
                    No
                                                                                                            countries          OCT (1 )(2)
           10.06                         Rice :
                                        A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                              32-07              13-04
                                                  b) Long grain                                               6818               31-09
                                             II . Husked rice :                                        \
                                                  a) Round grain                                              4009               17-05
                                                  b) Long grain                                               85-23              39-62
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :                        l
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :                                    \
                                                  a) Round grain                                              69-11              24-66
                                                  b) Long grain                                             160-06               70-17
                                             II. Wholly milled rice :                                  \
                                                  a) Round grain                                              73-60              26-55
                                                  b) Long grain                                             171-59               75-55
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                    19-94                7-47
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75.
           (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
               departments of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.