CELEX: 31976R0980
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 980/76 of 29 April 1976 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

30 . 4. 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 113/ 5
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION EEC No 980/76
                                                            of 29 April 1976
                                         fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
  COMMUNITIES,                                                          and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
  Economic Community ;                                                   lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
                                                                         market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                           specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
 67/EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                      1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the conversion
  tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­                rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 tion (EEC) No 668/75 (2), and in particular Article 1 1                67/EEC (9) of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion
 (2) thereof ;                                                          rates, the processing costs and the value of the
                                                                        by-products for the various stages of rice processing,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                           as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1484/75 (10)
 Committee ;
                                                                        should be used where appropriate ;
 Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly Ynilled rice and                 Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
 broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                     the Commission must take account of the fact that
 wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                  certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
 to the difference between the threshold price and the                  tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
 cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­               standard quality fixed by Regulation No 362/67/EEC
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies                and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to conform
 applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                        with the value of one kilogramme of broken rice as
 wholly milled rice ;                                                   fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as amended by
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1808/74, y^hereas no adjustment
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                    is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1975/76
                                                                        semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­
 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 892/75 (3)                     tion are lower than those provided for in the last
 and (EEC) No 2161 /75 (4) ;                                            subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the                 67/ EEC ;
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­
 cated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and
 in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last amended                   Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
                                                                        Commission to take account of the fact that certain
by Regulation (EEC) No 3320/75 (6), and in particular
 the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                    offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
world market which are sufficiently representative of                   product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
 the real trend of the market, account being taken in                   adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
particular of the need to prevent sudden variations                     fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­                    offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
 nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered                 to a product presented in bulk ;
must also be taken into account, whether this quality
corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regula­
tion No 362/67/ EEC (7), as last amended by Regula­                    Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
tion (EEC) No 1555/71 (8), or whether adjustments                      the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
need to be made by applying the corrective amounts                     for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No                         the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules                    port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
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
(>)  OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .                               Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
(2 ) OJ  No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p. 18 .                             may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
(3)  OJ  No  L 193 , 25 . 7. 1975, p. 3 .                              during the following month or may be retained unal­
(4)  OJ  No  L 220 , 20 . 8 . 1975, p . 9 .                            tered for a limited period ;
(5)  OJ  No  L 168 , 27. 7 . 1971 , p. 28 .
(b)  OJ  No  L 328 , 20 . 12. 1975, p . 32.
(7)  OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 27.                                 (9) OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p . 1 .
(8)  OJ  No  L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p . 11 .                           (" 0) OJ No L 150, 11 . 6 . 1975, p . 7 .
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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 ( J ), be reduced by a fixed amount and by               relation to each other, at any given moment,
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating               within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further              on their effective parity ;
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                     relation to the Community currencies referred to
1976 ;                                                             in the previous subparagraph ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 (2) of             Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in Annex A          tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and incorporated in                shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of
the Common Customs Tariff ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion No 359/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                                        Article 1
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered           The import levies to be charged on the products listed
in the intervening period to take account of variations         in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine         67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the table
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly        annexed to this Regulation .
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy                                 Article 2
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of
account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in            This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 April
force ;                                                         1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 April 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 29 April 1976 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken rice
                                                                                                                                (u.a. / metric ton)
                   CCT
                                                                                                                 Third             ACP and
                  heading                                      Description of goods
                    No
                                                                                                                countries          OCT (') P)
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                 79-04                36-52
                                                  b) Long grain                                                  98-50                46-25
                                             II . Husked rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                 98-80                46-40
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 123-13                58-57
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                144-00                62-10
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 217-41                98-84
                                             II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                153-36                66-43
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 233-06              106-28
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                        26-82                10-91
           (') 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'.