CELEX: 31973R1286
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1286/73 of the Commission of 17 May 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 131 / 12                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               18 . 5 . 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1286/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 17 May 1973
                    fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on nee 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                               the month in which importation is expected to take
359/67/EEC ( J ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organ­                place in the case of imports to be effected during the
ization 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 1 3 (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
expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;             Whereas the premium is equal to 0 units of account if
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                     the cif price determined on the day on which the
Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                     scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the cif
2637/70 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                  forward delivery price or exceeds that price by not
Regulation (EEC) No 128 /73(5);                                      more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
                                                                     grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/ EEC (6) of 25
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fixing of
levies on rice and broken rice ;
                                                                     Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
Whereas under the terms of Regulation No 365/                        higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled               certain specified limits ;
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on
which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif
forward delivery price for the same product, the
premium should as a general rule be equal to the                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                levies   should   be  calculated   on  the   basis   of   an
price is that determined in accordance with Article 1 6              exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC on the day on which                     which are floating or whose central rate differs from
the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for              the official parity, on the effective rate or the central
determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                  rate of these currencies and , in the case of the US
(EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last amended by Regulation                  dollar, on the change in parity announced on 13
(EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; whereas the cif forward delivery                February 1973 ;
 price must also be determined in accordance with
(M   OJ No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .
(2)  OJ No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14 .
P)   OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 .                               Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
(4)  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 :                                                  arehereby 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 18 May
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice                                  1973 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 17 May 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                      Member of the Commission
                                                                       ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 17 May 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                         levies on rice and broken rice (M
                                                                                                                            (u.a. / lOO k&)
               CCT                                                                              1st            2nd             3rd
              heading                    Description of goods                 Current         period          period         period
                No                                                              5               6               7               8
         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 :
                                  L 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
        (*) The period of validity of the licence is limited in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2196/71, as last amended by Regula­
            tion (EEC) No 538/73 .