CELEX: 31975R1668
Language: en
Date: 1975-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1668/75 of the Commission of 30 June 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 168 / 50                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 1 . 7. 75
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1668/75 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 30 June 1975
                                      fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         and the corrective amounts relating thereto ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European .
 Economic Community ;                                                Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                          and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
 67/ EECC ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                   long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­               lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
 tion (EEC) No 476/75 (2), and in particular Article 1 1
                                                                      market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
                                                                      specified in Article 4 of Regulation ( EEC) No
(2) thereof ;                                                         1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation , the conversion
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 Committee ;                                                          67/EEC ( 10) of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion
                                                                      rates,, the processing costs and the value of the
Whereas Article 1 1 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC                     by-products for the various stages of rice processing,
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808 /74 (")
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               should be used where appropriate ;
 broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal
 to the difference between the threshold price and the               Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­             the Commission must take account of the fact that
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies             certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                      tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
wholly milled rice ;                                                 standard quality fixed by Regulation No 362/67/ EEC
                                                                     and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to conform
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                 with the value of one kilogramme of broken rice as
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/75
                                                                     fixed by Regulation No 467/67/ EEC, as amended by
 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 171 8 /74 (3)                  Regulation ( EEC) No 1808 /74, whereas no adjustment
 and ( EEC) No 1 935/74 (4) and amended by Regulation                is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and
( EEC) No 2518 /74(5) ;
                                                                     semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the              tion are lower than those provided for in the last
Commission must take account of the factors indi­                    subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/
cated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC and                 67/ EEC
 in Regulation ( EEC) No 1613/71 (6), as last amended
by Regulation ( EEC) No 1 057/73 (7), 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 (8), as last amended by Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 1555/71 (9), 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
                                                                     port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
(')  OJ No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. I.
(')  OJ No  L 52, 28 . 2. 197.5, p. 31 .
(3)  OJ No  L 181 , 4. 7. 1974, p. 7.                                Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article I (3) of
O    OJ No  L 203, 25. 7 . 1974, p. 22.                              Regulation ( EEC). No 1613/71 obtain , the cif price
0)   OJ No  L 270, 5. 10 . 1974, p. 1 .
(*)  OJ No  L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p, 28.                           may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
( 7) OJ No  L 105, 20. 4. 1973, p. 10.
0)   OJ No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 27.                                ( I0) OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p . I.
C>)  OJ No  L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. II .                             (") OJ No I. 188, 12. 7. 1974, p. 34.
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during the following month or may be retained unal­              entail an increase or a reduction of at least 0-10 unit
tered for a limited period ;                                     of account per 100>kilogrammes in the amount of the
                                                                  levy in force ;
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)              — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
No 1 599/75 ('), be reduced by a fixed amount and by                  relation to each other, at any given moment,
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating                  within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further                 on their effective parity ;
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of                 arithmetic mean Of the spot market rates of each
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 of 24 June                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
1975 ;                                                                relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                      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
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
                                                                  in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
                                                                  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 the 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 July 1975.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .                    •
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 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 30 June 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and broken
                                                                            rice
                                                                                                                                 (u.aJ100 kg)
                   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                                             3-706              1-553
                                              II . Husked rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                               0                  0
                                                   b) Long grain.                                            4-632              2-016
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :                                           l
                                               I. Semi-milled rice :                                                      \
          \                                        a) Round grain                                            3-379              0-911
                                                   b) Long grain                                             12-686             5-567
          I                                  II . Wholly milled rice :                                                    l
                                                   a) Round grain                                            3-599              1-000
                                                   b) Long grain                                            13-600              6-000
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                       0                  0
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 22 of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 .
           (2) 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'.