CELEX: 31989R2637
Language: en
Date: 1989-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2637/89 of 31 August 1989 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 255/8                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   1 . 9. 89
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2637/89
                                                       of 31 August 1989
                                    fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the
                                                                   goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community, -                                               1423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by
                                                                   applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
Portugal,
                                                                   Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76               grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                  milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
No 1806/89 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,          each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    tion, the conversion rates resulting from Regulation No
883/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for             467/67/EEC of the Commission of 21 August 1967 fixing
the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86             the conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of
on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati              the by-products for the various stages of rice proces­
variety falling under CCT No ex 40.06 B I and II (3), as           sing (®), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 546/87 (4), and in                should be used where appropriate ;
particular Article 8 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,            Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
                                                                   Commission must take account of the fact that certain
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                  offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly            must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­       one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;               67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,            prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                    rice  taken    into consideration    are  lower than    those
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;              provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
                                                                    lation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1989/90             Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2120/89 (*);                                                        are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
                                                                    up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the             applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in            tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in Regu­              for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
lation (EEC) No 1613/71 of the Commission of 26 July
1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and           Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                    basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
relating thereto (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 Q, and in particular the most favourable                 tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are              relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances             Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
                                                                    calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
I2) OJ No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                                following month or may be retained unaltered for a
(3) OJ No   L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20.                               limited period ;
(4) OJ No   L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 10.
0   OJ No   L 203, 15. 7. 1989, p. 17.
(«) OJ No   L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                            (8) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
0   OJ No   L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .                             O OJ No 204, 24. 8. 1967, p. 1 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                 not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and         price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating       grain rice ;
to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                   Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
486/85 0, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
967/89 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                 the intervening period to take account of variations in
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to               threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
third countries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced         prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ;                rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
whereas the charging of this levy is subject to conditions,        tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
some of which are set out in Articles 10 and 11 of Regu­           increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
lation (EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation                the amount of the levy in force ;
(EEC) No 551 /85 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
No 171 /88 0 ;                                                     should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985                       tion to each other at any given moment within a band
must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of                of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable                 the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                 tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying                — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
to trade in agricultural products between Spain and                    arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
Portugal (*), as last amended by Commissions Regulation                these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
(EEC) No 3296/88 (*), the same arrangements are to be                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
applied in the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be                previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
applied pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that
levy should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid        Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into                provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
account the situation with regard to market prices in              Annex hereto,
Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31
December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;                      The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
                                                                   Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 Q                      shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
defined a special arrangement for the importation of
certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;                                       Article 2
whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of
that calculated in accordance with Article 1 1 of Regula­          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may               1989 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 31 August 1989.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
0 OJ No L 103, 15. 4. 1989, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L  63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10.
(*) OJ  No  L  18, 22. 1 . 1988, p. 56.
O   OJ  No  L  367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
(•) OJ  No  L  293, 27. 10 . 1988, p. 7.                           (») OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0 OJ No     L 361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                           O OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                     ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1989 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                  broken rice
                                                                                                                       (ECU / tonne)
                                                                    Arrangement            ACP or OCT           Third countries
                      CN code                  Portugal         in Regulation (EEC)                          (except ACP or OCT)
                                                                     No 3877/86               OOP)                      0
                     1006 10 21                                                              134,89                  276,98
                     1006 10 23                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  233,34
                     1006 10 25                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  23334
                     1006 10 27                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  233,34
                     1006 10 92                   —                       —
                                                                                             134,89                  276,98
                     1006 10 94                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  23334
                     1006 10 96                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  233,34
                     1006 10 98                   —
                                                                       175,01                113,07                  233,34
                     1006 20 11                   —                       —
                                                                                             169,51                  346,23
                     1006 20 13                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 20 15                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 20 17                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 20 92                   —                      —
                                                                                             169,51                  346,23
                     1006 20 94                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 20 96                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 20 98                   —
                                                                       218,75                142,23                  291,67
                     1006 30 21                 13,05                     —
                                                                                             220,58                  465,02
                     1006 30 23                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 25                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 27                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 42                 13,05                    —    ■
                                                                                             220,58                  465,02
                     1006 30 44                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 46                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 48                 12,97                  369,81                234,65                  493,08
                     1006 30 61                 13,90                    —
                                                                                             235,27                  495,25
                     1006 30 63                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 30 65                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 30 67                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 30 92                 13,90                    —
                                                                                             235,27                  495,25
                     1006 30 94                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 30 96                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 30 98                 13,90                  396,44                251,94                  528,59
                     1006 40 00                   0                      —
                                                                                               50,98                 107,96
             (1) Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EBC) No 486/85 and of Regula
                 tion No 551 /85.
             (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas depart
                 rnent of Réunion of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countrie
                 and territories'.
             (3) The irnport levy on rice entering the overseas department of Réunion is specified in Article lla of Regulatior
                 (EEC) No 1418/76.
             NB : The levies are to be converted into national currencies using the specific agricultural conversion
                     rates fixed in Commission Regulation (EEC} No 3294/86 (OJ No L 304, 30. 10. 1986, p. 25).