CELEX: 31974R2689
Language: en
Date: 1974-10-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2689/74 of the Commission of 24 October 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

25 . 10 . 74                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 288 / 19
                                  REGULATION ( EEC) No 2689/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                             of 24 October 1974
                     fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         with Article 16 of Regulation No 359 /67/ EEC but on
  COMMUNITIES,                                                           the basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this
                                                                          price must be the cif price for shipment during the
                                                                          month in which the import licence is issued in the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  case of imports to be effected during that month ;
  Economic Community ;                                                   whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment
                                                                         during the month in which importation is expected to
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                            take place in the case of imports to be effected during
  67/ EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                    the month following the month in which the import
  tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­                 licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
  tion ( EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (2 ), and in particular Article 13            price for shipment during the month preceding the
  (6) thereof ;                                                          month in which importation is expected to take place
                                                                         in the case of imports to be effected during the
                                                                         remaining months for which the import licence is
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
  Committee ;                                                            for shipment during a given month , this price should
                                                                         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 (3 ) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                   more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
  Regulation ( EEC) No 1 454/ 74 (4 ) ;                                  grammes ;
 Whereas Council Regulation No 365/ 67/ EEC (5 ) of 25
 July 1967 , as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No                     Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
  2435/ 70 (b), 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 /                          Whereas, if the levy system irf to operate normally ,
  67/ EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled                levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  rice or for broken rice determined on the day on
 which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 forward delivery price for the same product, the                             relation to each other, at any given moment ,
 premium should as a general rule be equal to the                             within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                        on their effective parity ;
 price is that determined in accordance with Article 16
 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 ( : ), as last amended by Regulation                    of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
 ( EEC) No I 057/ 73 ^ . wluieas the cif forward                              relation to the Community currencies referred to
 delivery price mu-r also be determined in accordance                         in the previous subparagraph ;
(') O | No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967 , p. 1 .
( J ) O ) No L 1 28 , 10 . S. 1 974 , p. 20 .                            Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
      O ) No L 28 5 , 29 . 12 . 1970, p. I V                             that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
( 4 ) O | No L I S \ 12 . 6 . 1974 , p. 10 .                             Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
H O'l No 1 74, ? l . 7 . | 9(,7 p . * 2 .                                amount of the premiums should be altered only if
(") O'l No I. 262, 3 . 12 . 1970 , p.
O O'l No L 168 . 2~ .          I 9 1 , p. 28 .                           application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
( s ) OJ No L I0 \ 20 . 4 . 1 9 "^, p. 10 .                              change of more than 0-025 unit of account,
 ---pagebreak--- No L 288 /20                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                  25 . 10 . 74
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 25 October
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                     1 974 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
              Done at Brussels , 24 October 1974 .
                                                                                For the Co in mission
                                                                                   P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                               ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 24 October 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                             ( u.a. /100 kg)
           CCT                                                                          1st        2nd           3rd
                                                                     Current
          heading                   Description of goods                10            period      period       period
            No                                                                           11         12             1
      10.06            Rice :
                       A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                             I. Paddy rice :
                                 a ) Round grained                      0                0          0             —
                                 b ) Long grained                       0                0          0             0
                            II . Husked rice :
                                 a ) Round grained                       0               0          0             —
                                 b) Long grained                        0                0          0             0
                       B. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                            rice :
                             I. Sem i -m i 1 led 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