CELEX: 31987R0200
Language: en
Date: 1987-01-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 200/87 of 23 January 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

24. 1 . 87                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 22/5
                                          COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 200/87
                                                           of 23 January 1987
                                         fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             1423/76 (*), or whether adjustments heed to be made by
                                                                        applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­
                                                                        tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                        Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
                                                                        grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                     milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
 Portugal,                                                              quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
                                                                        each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                        Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                   tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                      Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
 No 1449/86 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,              by-products for the various stages of rice processing Q, as
                                                                        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2249/85 (8), should
                                                                        be used where appropriate ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                        Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
                                                                        Commission must take account of the fact that certain
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                    offers are for rice containing a higher percentage 6f
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                  broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
 broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly               fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
 milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­           must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
 rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;                  one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,                67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
 the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to               prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                        rice  taken    into consideration    are lower than    those
 the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;
                                                                        provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
                                                                        lation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1986/87
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                       Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
                                                                        Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2465/86 (3);
                                                                        are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
                                                                       up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the                applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in                tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in                       for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts              Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
relating thereto (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
No 21 17/80 0, and in particular the most favourable                   ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are                 tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
                                                                       relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances
on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the                   Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
goods offered must also be taken into account, whether                 Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No                   calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
                                                                       following month or may be retained unaltered for a
                                                                       limited period ;
0)  OJ   No  L 166,  25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 133,  21 . 5. 1986, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L 211 , 1 . 8 . 1986, p. 12.                              (*) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
0   OJ   No  L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                             0 OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
0   OJ   No  L 206,  8 . 8 . 1980, p. 15.                              (8) OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 13 .
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 Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
 interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and        the intervening period to take account of variations in
 of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating      threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
 to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No             prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
 486/85 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
 73/87 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an amount          tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
 corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to third coun­         increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in
 tries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced in the           the amount of the levy in force ;
 case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas the
 charging of this levy is subject to conditions, some of           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 which are set out in Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation             should be calculated on the following basis :
 (EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation (EEC)                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 No 551 /85 (3);                                                       tion to each other at any given moment within a band
                                                                       of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,             rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985                      the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
 must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 0,
 Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from
 Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under              arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying                   tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 to trade in agricultural products between Spain and                   previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in          Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
 the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied              provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
 pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy              Annex hereto,
 should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
 down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into
 account the situation with regard to market prices in             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain
 the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade                                         Article 1
 between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31
 December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;                  The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                 Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                   shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
 standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 (1 ) of Regulation                                      Article 2
(EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this
 Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 January
Tariff ;                                                           1987.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels, 23 January 1987.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                  Vice-President
(') OJ   No  L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
0   OJ   No L  11 , 13, 1 . 1987, p. 23.
(3) OJ   No L  63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10.
(4) OJ   No L  367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.                           0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                                            ANNEX
                     to the Commission Regulation of 23 January 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                          broken rice
                                                                                                                                      (ECU / tonne)
                   CCT                                                                                                  Third          ACP or
                 heading                                   Description                                Portugal      countries 0      OCT (1) (2) (3)
                    No
            ex 10.06              Rice :
                                  B. Other :                                                       IIII
                                         I. Paddy rice ; husked rice :                             I              Ill
                                            a) Paddy rice :                                        \              I
                                                1 . Round grain                                          —
                                                                                                                       325,66           159,23
                                                2. Long grain                                            —
                                                                                                                       363,74           178,27
                                            b) Husked rice :                                       I              I
          I                                     1 . Round grain                                          —
                                                                                                                       407,08           199,94
                                                2. Long grain                                            —
                                                                                                                       454,67           223,73
                                        II. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :                    I
                                            a) Semi-milled rice :                                  I                               l
          1                                     1 . Round grain                                         13,05          530,06           253,10
                                                2. Long grain                                           12,97          654,72           315,47
                                            b) Wholly milled rice :                                I                               I
                                                1 . Round grain                                         13,90          564,52           269,91
                                                2. Long grain                                           13,90          701,86           338,58
                                       III. Broken rice                                                80,06           221,19           107,59
            N.B. The levies are to be converted into national currencies using the specific agricultural conversion rates fixed in Regulation (EEC)
                  No 3294/86.
            (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 1 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regulation No 551 /85.
            0 In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas department of Reunion of
                products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.
            0 The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.