CELEX: 31978R2059
Language: en
Date: 1978-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2059/78 of 31 August 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 9 . 78                                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 240/5
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2059/78
                                                         of 31 August 1978
                                      fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and
COMMUNITIES,                                                         long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain
                                                                     wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               basis of quotations or prices on the world market
 Economic Community,                                                 relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ';
 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                    whereas, for this calculation, the conversion rates
tion of the market in rice ( ! ), as last amended by Regu­           resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
lation (EEC) No 1260/78 (2), and in particular Article               67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
 1 1 (2) thereof,                                                    the processing costs and the value of the by-products
                                                                     for the various stages of rice processing (8), as last
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 572/77 (9), should
Committee ,                                                          be used where appropriate ;
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                  Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                the Commission must take account of the fact that
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,
                                                                     certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
to the difference between the threshold price and the                standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­              1423/76 and, in that case, to adjust the offers so as to
milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies              conform with the value of one kilogram of broken
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                      rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as
wholly milled rice ;                                                 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                 no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1978 /79              husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
                                                                     taken    into   consideration    are  lower  than   those
marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1262/78 (3)
and (EEC) No 1 627/78 (4) ;                                          provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
                                                                     Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the
Commission must take account of the factors indi­
cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last                      Commission to take account of the fact that certain
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 59/78 (6), and in                     offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­                 product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­               adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
sentative of the real trend of the market, account                   fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
being taken in particular of the need to prevent                     offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­                   to a product presented in bulk ;
bances on the Community market ; whereas the
quality of the goods offered must also be taken into
account, whether this quality corresponds to the                     Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                        the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
 1423/76 (7), or whether adjustments need to be made                 for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                   the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                    port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices
and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective
amounts relating thereto ;                                           Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
(')  OJ   No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                              may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
(2 ) OJ   No L 156, 14 . 6 . 1978 , p. 11 .                          during the following month or may be retained unal­
(3)  OJ  No  L 156, 14. 6. 1978 , p. 13.
(4)  OJ   No L 190, 13. 7. 1978 , p. 19 .                            tered for a limited period ;
(5)  OJ  No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
(6)  OJ  No  L 10, 13 . 1 . 1978 , p. 11 .                           (8) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(7)  OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 .                             H OJ No L 174, 14. 7. 1977, p. 26.
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)
No 706/76 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                   relation to each other at any given moment within
No 1 198 /78 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by                a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based on
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating                 their effective parity ;
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further           — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to               of these currencies recorded for a given period in
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of                relation to the Community currencies referred to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                       in the previous subparagraph ;
1976 ;
                                                                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19               tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
July 1971 (3) altered the definitions given in Annex A          shown in the table annexed to this Regulation ,
to Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 and incorporated in
Supplementary Notes 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the
Common Customs Tariff ;                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided                                          Article 1
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered             in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
in the intervening period to take account of variations          1418 /7j6 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine          annexed to this Regulation .
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only                                  Article 2
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
account per tonne in the amount of the levy in force ;           1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1978 .
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                               Vice-President
(•) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 147, 3 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 .
P ) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5 .
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                                                                         ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken rice
                                                                                                                                   (u.a. / tonne)
                   CCT
                                                                                                                  Third           ACP or
                  heading                                           Description
                    No                                                                                         countries (3)     OCT (') (2) (3)
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                  66.78            30.39
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 115.40             54.70
                                             II . Husked rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                  83.47            38-74
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 144.25             69.13
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                115.36             47-78
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 210.88             95.58
                                             II. Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                122-86             51.18
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 226.07            102.79
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                         51.14            23.07
           (') 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, the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of
               products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.
           (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.