CELEX: 31974R1541
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-21 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1541/74 of the Commission of 20 June 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

21 . 6. 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 166/25
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1541 /74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 20 June 1974
                     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 16                   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 .
0    OJ  No L 73, 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(>)  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
(^) OJ   No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 32.                              amount of the premiums should be altered only if
(7) OJ   No L 262, 3 . 12 . 1970, p. 3 .
(8) 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 21 June
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                   1974 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 20 June 1974.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation o! 20 June 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                 levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                        (u.a.1100 ke )
          CCT                                                  i  Current   I      1st         2nd         3rd
         heading                 Description of goods          !     6      !    period      period      period
           No                                                               i       7            »           9
     10.06            Rice :
                      A. Eaddy 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                      o             0           0
                               b) Long grained                      0              0           0            0
                      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