CELEX: 31974R3133
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3133/74 of the Commission of 12 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice

13. 12. 74                             Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 333/ 19
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 3133/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 12 December 1974
                                                fixing the export levies on rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     of rice on the Community market on the one hand
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      and prices for rice and products processed from it on
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              the world market on the other ; whereas the same
 Economic Community ;                                              Article provides that it is also important to ensure
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                       equilibrium and the natural development of prices
 67/EEC (*), of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­               and trade on rice markets and furthermore, to take
 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­            into account the economic aspect of the proposed
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (2) ;                                      exports and the need to avoid disturbances on the
                                                                   Community market ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 2737/73 (3) of 8 October 1973 laying down general                 Whereas for the products listed in Article 1 (c) of
 rules to be applied in the event of the rice market               Regulation No 359/67/ EEC the specific factors set out
being disturbed, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ;         in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 must
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      also be taken into account ;
 Committee ;
Whereas Article 21 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC                     Whereas the export levy may be varied if the world
provides that the necessary measures may be taken if               market situation or the specific requirements of
the cif price of one or more products is appreciably               certain markets make this necessary ;
 higher than the threshold price and if that situation is          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the
likely to continue thereby disturbing or threatening to            following should be used to calculate the levies :
disturb the Community market ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 specifies that                 — for currencies the exchange rates for which are
the cif price may be regarded as appreciably higher                     kept at any given moment within a band of
than the threshold price when it exceeds it by at least                 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
2 % ; whereas this excess may be regarded as being                      parity ;
likely to continue where an imbalance between supply               — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
and demand is established and where this imbalance                      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each
is likely to persist having regard to foreseeable produc­               of these currencies against the Community curren­
tion and market price trends ;                                          cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
Whereas the high level of prices in international trade                 specified period ;
could impede importation of rice into the Commu­
nity or provoke exportation from the Community ;                   Whereas it follows from applying the rules outlined
Whereas the situation described above can be said to               above to the present situation on the market in rice,
exist at the present time ; whereas to ensure supplies             and in particular to quotations or prices for these
in the Community an export levy should be intro­                   products within the Community and on the world
duced for this product ;                                           market, that the export levie^ should be fixed as
                                                                   shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas in view of the relationship between the rice
and products processed from it and given the market                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
situation for these products, an export levy must also             are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
be fixed for all products processed from rice ;                    ment Committee for Cereals,
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/75
marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1718 /74 (4)                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and (EEC) No 1935/74 (5), as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2518 /74(6);                                                                       Article 1
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73
specifies that when the export levy is being fixed                 The export levy referred to in the first indent of
account must be taken of the existing situation and                Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 is
the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities          hereby fixed as shown in the Annex for the products
                                                                   listed therein .
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20 .                                                     Article 2
(3) OJ No t 282, 9 . 10. 1973, p. 13 .
(«) OJ No L 181 , 4. 7. 1974, p. 7 .
(5) OJ No L 203 , 25 . 7 . 1974, p. 22.                            This Regulation       shall enter into   force on    13
(6) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                            December 1974 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 12 December 1974 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                    Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 12 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice
                CCT heading No                                     Description of goods                               u .a ./100 kg
          10.06 A I a)                  Round grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified                         12-000
                                        seeds (*)
          (0.06 A I b)                  Long grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified
                                        seeds (*)                                                                          6-000
          10.06 A II a)                 Round grained husked rice                                                        12-000
          10.06 A II b)                 Long grained husked rice                                                           6-000
          10.06 B I a)                  Round grained semi-milled rice                                                   12-000
          10.06 B 1 b)                  Long grained semi-milled rice                                                       —
          10.06S Ha)                    Round grained wholly-milled rice                                                 12-000
          10.06 B Ufe)                  Long grained wholly-milled rice                                                     —
          10.06 C                       Broken rice                                                                      12-000
          11.01 F                       Rice flour                                                                          —
          11.02 A VI                    Rice groats and meal                                                             12 000
          11,02 E II e) 1               Flaked rice                                                                      12-000
          11.02 F                       Pellets of rice                                                                  12-000
          (*) Officially certified seeds are understood to be those seeds contained in the packafes officially sealed and
               officially labelled as 'basic teed', 'certified seed, first generation', 'certified seed, sccond generation' confor­
               ming to the provisions of the Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on die marketing of cereal seed (OJ No
               125, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2309/66) and of the Council Decision of 26 March 1973 on the equivalence of seed
              produced in Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1973, p. 12).