CELEX: 31973R2178
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2178/73 of the Commission of 9 August 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 222/ 12                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              10 . 8 . 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2178/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 9 August 1973
                    fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC but on the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price
                                                                     must be the cif price for shipment during the month
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               in which the import licence is issued in the case of
 Economic Community ;                                                imports to be effected during that month ; whereas
                                                                     this price must be the cif price for shipment during
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         the month in which importation is expected to take
 67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                  place in the case of imports to be effected during the
 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                  month following the month in which the import
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
 new Member States to the European Economic                          price for shipment during the month preceding the
 Community and the European Atomic Energy                            month in which importation is expected to take place
 Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                   in the case of imports to be effected during the
 and in particular Article 13 (6) thereof ;                          remaining months for which the import licence is
                                                                     valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                        for shipment during a given month, this price should
 Committee ;                                                         be the price ruling for shipment during the last
                                                                     month in which an offer for forward delivery was
 Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                      made ;
.levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must
 include a premium for the current month and a
 premium for each of the following months until the                  Whereas the premium is equal to 0 units of account if
 expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;            the cif price determined on the day on which the
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                     scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the cif
 Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    forward delivery price or exceeds that price by not
 2637/70 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                  more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 28 /73 (5) ;                                  grammes ;
 Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC (6) of 25
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
 2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fixing of              higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
 levies on rice and broken rice ;                                    certain specified limits ;
 Whereas under the terms of Regulation No 365/
 67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 rice or for broken rice determined on the day on                     levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif
 forward delivery price for the same product, the                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 premium should as a general rule be equal to the                         relation to each other, at any given moment,
 difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 price is that determined in accordance with Article 1 6                  on their effective parity ;
 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC on the day on which
 the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for             — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 (EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last amended by Regulation                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 (EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; whereas the cif forward delivery                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
 price must also be determined in accordance with                         in the previous subparagraph ; ,
(') OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14.
(3) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 .                            Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
(«) OJ  No  L 283 , 29 . 12. 1970 , p . 15 .                         that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
(5) OJ  No  L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p . 16 .                           Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
(6) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967 , p . 32 .
O   OJ  No  L 262, 3 . 12 . 1970 , p . 3 .                           amount of the premiums should be altered only if
(«) OJ  No  L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p . 28 .                         application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
(9) OJ  No  L 46, 22 . 2 . 1972, p . 9 .                             change of more than 0-025 unit of account ;
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                          hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this
                                                                       Regulation.
                          Article 1                                                            Article 2
The premiums to be added to the import levies fixed                    This Regulation        shall   enter into      force  on
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                       10 August 1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States .
                 Done at Brussels, 9 August 1973 .
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                    P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 9 August 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                     levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                               <«.«./100 kg)
               CCT                                                                       1st         2nd         Jrd
             heading                Description of goods               Current         period       period      period
                No                                                        8               9           10          11
         10.06            Rice :
                          A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                              I. Paddy rice :
                                 a) Round grained                         0              0            0          —
                                 b) Long grained                          0            1-744        1-744       1-312
                             II. Husked rice :
                                 a) Round grained                         0              0            0          —
                                 b) Long grained                          0            2-180        2-180       1-640
                          B. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                             rice :
                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                 a) Round grained                         0              0            0          —
                                 b) Long grained                          0              0            0           0
                             II. Wholly milled rice :
                                 a) Round grained                         0              0            0          —
                                 b) Long grained                          0              0            0           0
                          C. Broken rice :                               0               0            0            0