CELEX: 31994R0260
Language: en
Date: 1994-02-04 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 260/94 of 3 February 1994 suspending advance fixing of the import levy for broken rice

No L 31 /28                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                4. 2. 94
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 260/94
                                                        of 3 February 1994
                               suspending advance fixing of the import levy for broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        rules covering the importation of broken rice originating
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              in the ACP States ; whereas those rules provide for
 Community,                                                         advance fixing of the import levy ; whereas, for the
                                                                    purpose of applying those rules, the procedure of advance
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76               fixing of the levies on broken rice imported from the
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                  ACP States should therefore be maintained ;
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 1544/93 (2), and in particular the first paragraph of           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 Article 13 (7) thereof,                                            in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Cereals,
 Whereas Article 13 (7) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 provides that the provisions concerning advance fixing of
 the levy may be suspended if the market situation shows            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 that the application of such provisions will or is likely to
 cause difficulties ; whereas this provision may be applied
                                                                                            Article 1
 only, as deemed necessary, for a strictly specified period ;
 whereas the application of the provisions in question               1 . Advance fixing of the import levy for the products
 should therefore be suspended until 4 March 1994 in                referred to in Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC)
 order to enable an assessment of the impact of the                 No 1418/76 is hereby suspended from 4 February to
 measure on trade flows ;                                           4 March 1994.
 Whereas there is danger, given the reduction of the levy
 on broken rice, that if existing arrangements are adhered          2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to products imported
 to, levies could be fixed in advance for quantities conside­       under the arrangements laid down in Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 999/90 .
 rably in excess of the quantities which might be envi­
 saged under normal conditions ;
                                                                                            Article 2
 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 999/90 (3), as
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 560/91 (4), lays down               This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 February- 1994.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 3 February 1994.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Rene STEICHEN
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No   L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No   L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 5.
(J) OJ  No   L 101 , 21 . 4. 1990, p. 20.
(4) OJ  No   L 62, 8. 3. 1991 , p. 26.