CELEX: 31976R1557
Language: en
Date: 1976-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1557/76 of 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 7. 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 172/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1557/76
                                                          of 30 June 1976
                                     fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
 Economic Community,                                                specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                     1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the conversion
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 1418/76 of 21 June 1976, on the common organiza­                   67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
 tion of the market in rice (!), and in particular Article          the processing costs and the value of the by-products
 11 (2) thereof,                                                    for the various stages of rice processing (7), as last
                                                                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1484/75 (8) should
 Having , regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     be used where appropriate ;
 Committee,
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                   Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                 the Commission must take account of the fact that
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,
                                                                    tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal               standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
to the difference between the threshold price and the                1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­            conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies
                                                                    rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808/74 ; whereas
wholly milled rice ;
                                                                    no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1975/76              taken    into  consideration      are  lower than  those
 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 429/76 (2)                 provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
and (EEC) No 2161 /75 (3) ;                                         Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­                  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
 cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 Commission to take account of the fact that certain
and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (4), as last                     offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3320/75 (5), and in                  product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
 particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­               adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
 ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­             fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
sentative of the real trend of the market, account                  offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
being taken in particular of the need to prevent                    to a product presented in bulk ;
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­
bances on the Community market ; whereas the
quality of the goods offered must also be taken into                Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
                                                                    the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
account, whether this quality corresponds to the
standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                       for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
 1423/76 (6), or whether adjustments need to be made                the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                  port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices              Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective               Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
amounts relating thereto ;                                          may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained                  during the following month or may be retained unal­
and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and                  tered for a limited period ;
(•)  OJ  No L 166,  25.  6 . 1976, p. 1 .                           Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
(2)  OJ No  L 166,  25 . 6. 1976, p. 33 .                           interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
(3)  OJ No  L 220,  20.  8 . 1975, p. 9.
(4)  OJ No  L 168,  27.  7. 1971 , p. 28 .
(5)  OJ No  L 328 , 20 . 12. 1975, p. 32.                           (7) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(*)  OJ  No L  166, 25.  6. 1976, p. 20.                            (8) OJ No L 150 , 11 . 6 . 1975, p. 7.
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or of the 'overseas countries and territories , the levy          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)               levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 706/76 ('), be reduced by a fixed amount and by                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating                  relation to each other, at any given moment,
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further
                                                                      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled
                                                                      on their effective parity ;
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of             — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                        arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
1976 ;                                                                of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19                     in the previous subparagraph ;
July 1971 (2) altered the definitions given in Annex A
to Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and incorporated in                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of                 tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
the Common Customs Tariff ;                                       shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;
                                                                                            Article 1
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
in the intervening period to take account of variations           The import levies to be charged on the products listed
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine            in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly           1418/76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only           annexed to this Regulation.
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of                                   Article 2
account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in
force :                                                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1976.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(•) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p . 2.
(2) OJ No L 164, 22. 7 . 1971 , p . 5 .
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                                                                       ANNEX
          to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on nee and broken
                                                                          rice
                                                                                                                              (u.a./ metric ton)
                 CCT
                                                                                                                Third            ACP and
                heading                                       Description of goods
                  No
                                                                                                              countries          OCT C )(2)
          10.06                        Rice :                                                                                               '
                                       A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                             I. Paddy rice :
                                                 a) Round grain                                                101.94              47.97
                                                 b) Long grain                                                  9800               4600
                                            II . Husked rice :
                                                 a) Round grain                                                127.43              60.72
                                                 b) Long grain                                                 122.50              58.25
                                       B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                             I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                 a) Round grain                                                149.85               65.03
                                                 b) Long grain                                                223.74              102.01
                                            II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                 a) Round grain                                                159.59               69.55
                                                 b) Long grain                                                 239.85             109.68
                                        C. Broken rice :                                                        39.51               17.26
          (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 706/76.
          (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas depart­
              ments of products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.