CELEX: 31974R0124
Language: en
Date: 1974-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 124/74 of the Commission of 17 January 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 15/ 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               18 . 1 . 74
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 124/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 17 January 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 of1 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 128/73 (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 ;
(i) 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 :                                             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 18 January
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, 17 January 1974.
                                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                   ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 17 January 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                       levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                (u.a. /lOO kg)
             CCT                                                        Current          1st        2nd           3rd
            heading                   Description of goods '               1           period      period        period
              No                                                                          2           3             4
                         I
                         i                                            I
                         i
        10.06              Rice :                                    j■
                           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