CELEX: 31975R2231
Language: en
Date: 1975-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2231/75 of the Commission of 29 August 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

30 . 8 . 75                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 229 / 5
                                 REGULATION (EEC) No 2231 /75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 29 August 1975
                                        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
                                                                         long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
  Economic Community ;
                                                                         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
  Committee ;
                                                                         as last amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1484/75 ( l0)
                                                                         should be used where appropriate ;
 Whereas Article 1 1 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC
  provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled 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
 Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                    Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74, whereas no adjustment
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1975/76                  is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and
 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 892/75 (3)                      semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­
 and ( EEC) No 21 61 /75 (4) ;                                           tion are lower than those provided for in the last
                                                                         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
 by Regulation ( EEC) No 1057/73 (6), and in particular                  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
 the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain
 world market which are sufficiently representative of                   offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
 the real trend of the market, account being taken in                    product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
 particular of the need to prevent sudden variations                     adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
 likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­                     fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
 nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered                  offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
 must also be taken into account, whether this quality                   to a product presented in bulk ;
 corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regula­
 tion No 362/67/ EEC ( 7), as last amended by Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1555/71 (8), or whether adjustments                      Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
 need to be made by applying the corrective amounts                      the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
 provided for in Commission Regulation ( EEC) No                         for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
 1613 / 71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules                    the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
 for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice                port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
 and the corrective amounts relating thereto ;
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .
( : ) O") No L 72, 20 . 3 . 197.5, p . 18 .                             Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
(') OÌ No L 193 , 25. 7. 1975, p . 3 .                                  Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain , the cif price
  4 ) OJ No L 220 , 20 . 8 . 1975, p . 9 .                               may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
  s)  OÌ   No L 168 , 27.   7. 1971 , p. 28 .
  h)  O'l  No L 105, 20 .   4. 1973,  p. 10 .
  7)  O 'l No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 27 .                              (9 ) OJ No 204 , 24 . 8 . 1967 , p . 1 .
  s)  OÌ   No L 164, 22.    7. 1971 , p. 11 .                           ( 1D) OJ No L 150 , 11 . 6 . 1975, p. 7 .
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during the following month or may be retained unal­                account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in
tered for a limited period ;                                       force ;
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)                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
No 1 599/75 ('), be reduced by a fixed amount and by                    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating                    on their effective parity ;
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further
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 1599/75 of 24 June                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 1 975 ;                                                                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 ;
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion No 359/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for                                          Article 1
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed
                                                                    in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
                                                                    67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
in the intervening period to take account of variations             annexed to this Regulation .
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine
cif prices ; whereas, in t&e case of husked rice, wholly                                    Article 2
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
entail an increase or a reduction of at least 1 unit of              1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 August 1975.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 166, 28 . 6. 1975 , p . 67.
(-') OJ No L 164, 22. 7 . 1971 , p . 5 .
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                                                                         ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1975 fixing the import levies on nee and
                                                                       broken rice
                                                                                                                               (u.a. / metric ton)
                     CCT
                                                                                                                 Third            ACP and
                   heading                                      Description of goods
                      No
                                                                                                               countries          OCT (')(')
            10.06                         Rice :
                                          A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                               I. Paddy rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                                  0                    0
                                                   b) Long grain                                                1 2-46                 3-23
                                              II . Husked rice :                                                             \
                                                   a) Round grain                                                  0                    0
                                                   b) Long grain                                                1 5-57                 4-79
                                          B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                               I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                               42-66                1 1 -43
                                                   b) Long grain                                                97-42               38-85
                                              II. Wholly milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                               45-43                12-47
                                                   b) Long grain                                               104-43               41-97
                                          C. Broken rice :                                                         0                     0
            (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 22 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1599/ 75 .
            (-') In accordance with Regulation ( EEC) No 1599/ 75 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas
                 departments of products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.