CELEX: 31974R2238
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2238/74 of the Commission of 29 August 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 238 /20                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               30 . 8 . 74
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2238/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 29 August 1974
                   fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     with Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC but on
COMMUNITIES,                                                       the basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this
                                                                   price must be the cif price for shipment during the
                                                                   month in which the import licence is issued in the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              case of imports to be effected during that month ;
Economic Community ;                                               whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment
                                                                   during the month in which importation is expected to
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                        take place in the case of imports to be effected during
67/ EEC ( J ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­              the month following the month in which the import
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­             licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
tion (EEC) No 1 129/74 (2), and in particular Article 13           price for shipment during the month preceding the
(6) thereof ;                                                      month in which importation is expected to take place
                                                                   in the case of imports to be effected during the
                                                                   remaining months for which the import licence is
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                       valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
Committee ;                                                        for shipment during a given month, this price should
                                                                   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 of 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 (3) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                 more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
Regulation (EEC) No 1454/74 (4) ;                                  grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC (5) of 25
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
2435/70 (6), 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/                       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled             levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 rice or for broken rice determined on the day on
which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 forward delivery price for the same product, the                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
 premium should as a general rule be equal to the                       within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                  on their effective parity ;
 price is that determined in accordance with Article 16
 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 (7), as last amended by Regulation                     of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
 (EEC) No 1057/73 (8) ; whereas the cif forward                         relation to the Community currencies referred to
 delivery price must also be determined in accordance                   in the previous subparagraph ;
 (») OJ No    174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
 (?) OJ No   L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 .                         Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
 (3) OJ No   L 283, 29. 12. 1970, p. 15.                            that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
 (4) OJ No   L 155, 12. 6 . 1974, p. 10.                            Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
 (5) OJ No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 32.                              amount of the premiums should be altered only if
 (6) OJ No   L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p. 3 .
 (7) OJ No   L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                          application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
 (») OJ No   L 105, 20 . 4. 1973, p. 10 .                           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 1 September
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, 29 August 1974.
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                            Member of the Commission
                                                              ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                               import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                             [u.a. /100 kg)
               CCI                                                   Currenr           1st       2nd            3rd
              heading                Description of goods               9            period     period        period
                No                                                                     10         11             12
         10.06            Rite :
                          A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                              1 . 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 nee
                                  λ ) Round grained                    0               0          0             __
                                  b ) Long grained                     0               0          0              0
                             H Wholly milled rice :
                                  a ) Round grained                    0               0          0             —
                                  b) Long grained                      0               0          0             0
                          C. Broken ricc :                             0              0           0             0
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