CELEX: 31973R2365
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2365/73 of the Commission of 31 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 9. 73                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 245/7
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 2365/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 31 August 1973
                                               fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                          as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1555/71 (9),
COMMUNITIES,                                                            or whether adjustments need to be made by applying
                                                                        the corrective amounts provided for in Commission
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                      Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 lay­
pean Economic Community ;                                               ing down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and
                                                                        levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/                          amounts relating thereto ;
EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                   Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
new Member States to the European Economic Com­                         and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
munity and the European Atomic Energy Commu­                            long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
nity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in                     lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the
particular Article 11 (2) thereof ;                                     world market relating, for each type of rice, to the
                                                                        products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Com­                       No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the con­
mittee ;                                                                version rates resulting from Commission Regulation
                                                                        No 467/67/EEC ( 10) of 21 August 1967 fixing the
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC                          conversion rates, the processing costs and the value
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                     of the by-products for the various stages of rice
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                   processing, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                      1499/72 ( n), should be used where appropriate ;
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal
to the difference between the threshold price and the
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and                      Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
semi-milled rice, the levy should be derived from the                   the Commission must take account of the fact that
levies applicable to the corresponding husked rice                      certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
and wholly milled rice ;                                                tage of broken rice than that allowed for the stan­
                                                                        dard quality fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                    whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the                          prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly
1973/74 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No                           milled rice taken into consideration are lower than
 1962/73 (4) and No 2024/73 (5) ;                                       those provided for in the last subparagraph of Article
                                                                        4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices,
the Commission must take account of the factors
indicated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/                        Whereas Regulation (EEC ) No 1613/71 requires the
EEC and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 (6), as last                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1057/73 (7 ), and                        offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
in particular the most favourable purchasing oppor­                     product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to ad­
tunities on the world market which are sufficiently                     just such offers by applying the rates or amounts
representative of the real trend of the market,                         fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make
account being taken in particular of the need to pre­                   the offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or re­
 vent sudden variations likely to cause abnormal                        lating to a product presented in bulk ;
disturbances on the Community market ; whereas
the quality of the goods offered must also be taken
into account, whether this quality corresponds to the                   Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
standard quality fixed in Regulation 362/67/EEC (8),                    the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
                                                                        for other ports being adjusted, account being taken
(*)  OJ No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                                   of the corrections necessitated by the difference in
H    OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .                               transport charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
(3)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
(4)  OJ No  L 201 , 21 . 7. 1973 , p. 1 .
(5)  OJ No  L 206, 27. 7. 1973 , p . 30 .
(•)  OJ No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                                (9) O ] No L 164, 22 . 7. 1971 , p. 11 .
( 7) OJ No  L 105, 20 . 4. 1973 , p . 10 .                              ( 10 ) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
 (8) OJ No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 27.                                  (») OJ No L 158 , 14. 7. 1972, p . 22.
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Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3 )             ations in threshold prices or in the factors used to de­
of Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 obtain, the cif                    termine cif prices ; whereas, in the case* of husked
price may be calculated on the basis of offers for                 rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levies
delivery during the following month or may be                      are altered only if variations in the factors used to
retained unaltered for a limited period ;                          calculate the levy entails an increase or a reduction
                                                                   of at least 0-10 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                 in the amount of the levy in force ;
interests of the Associated African States and Mad­
agascar and of the Overseas Countries and Terri­                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
tories, the levy relating to them must, pursuant to                levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Regulation (EEC) No 540/70 ( 1 ), be reduced by a                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
fixed amount and by an amount corresponding to                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
45 °/o of the levy relating to third countries ; whereas                within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange based
the levy must be further reduced in the case of semi­                   on their effective parity ;
milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas, under Ar­                 — for other currencies an exchange rate based on
ticle 2 of Regulation (EEC ) No 540/70, the charging                    the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of
of this levy is subject to conditions, some of which                    each of these currencies recorded for a given
are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC ) No 430/                     period, in relation to the Community currencies
72 (2) of 29 February 1972 on implementing meas­                        referred to in the previous subparagraph ;
ures concerning imports of rice and broken rice
originating in the Associated African States and                   Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Madagascar or in the Overseas Countries and Terri­                 tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
tories ;                                                           shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 (3)
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
of 19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in An­
nex A of Regulation 359/67/EEC and incorporated                                              Article 1
in supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10
of the Common Customs Tariff ;                                     The import levies to be charged on the products
                                                                   listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­            359/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
tion No 359/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for                  annexed to this Regulation.
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                                             Article 2
 Whereas lfevies are fixed once a week and are altered              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
 in the intervening period to take account of vari­                 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1973 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
  (!) OJ No L 68, 25 . 3. 1970, p. 1 .
  (») OJ No L 52, 1 . 3 . 1972, p . 41 .
  (s) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7. 1971 , p. 5 .
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                                                                      ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                                (u.a.flOO kg/
              CCT                                                                                                Third          AASM /
             heading                                      Description of goods                                 countries      OCT (') (')
               No
        1006                              Rice :              '
                                          A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                  0                0
                                             II . Husked rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                  0                0
                                          B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                  0                0
                                             II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                 0                 0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                  0                 0
                                          C. Broken rice                                                           0                0
        {') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departmenti of
            products originating in the AASM and OCT .
        W Thi« levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70 .