CELEX: 31988R2700
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/88 of 31 August 1988 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 241 /30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 9 . 88
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2700/88
                                                        of 31 August 1988
                    fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 but on the basis of
                                                                    offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price must be the
                                                                    cif price for shipment during the month in which the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               import licence is issued in the case of imports to be
Economic Community,                                                 effected during that month ; whereas in the case of
                                                                    imports to be effected during the month following the
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                   month in which the importv licence is issued, this price
Portugal,                                                            must be the cif price for shipment during the month in
                                                                    which importation is expected to take place ; whereas in
                                                                     the case of imports to be effected during the remaining
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 months for which the import licence is valid, this price
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                    must be the cif price for shipment during the month
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              preceding the month in which importation is expected to
No 2229/88 (2), and in particular Article 13 (6) thereof,            take place ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is
                                                                     made for shipment during a given month, this price
                                                                     should be the price ruling for shipment during the last
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,              month in which an offer for forward delivery was made ;
Whereas the premiums to be added tp the import levies
fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must include a             Whereas the premium shall be 0 ECU if the cif forward
premium for the current month and a premium for each                 delivery price is equal to the cif price or lower by an
of the following months until the expiry of the period of            amount not exceeding 0,30 ECU per tonne ;
validity of the import licence ; whereas this period of vali­
dity was laid down in Article 8 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2042/75 of 25 July 1975 on special detailed                 Whereas by virtue of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC)
rules for the application of the system of import and                No 1428/76 the premium may, however, be fixed at a
export licences for cereals and rice (3), as last amended by         higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
Regulation (EEC) No 2167/88 (4) ;                                    certain specified limits ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1428/76 (^ lays
down rules for the advance fixing of levies on rice and              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
broken rice ;                                                         should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No                            in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 1428/76, wherq the cif price for husked rice, for milled                 tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 rice or for broken rice determined on the day on which                   of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
 the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif forward                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 delivery price for the same product, the premium should                  the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
 as a general rule be equal to the difference between these               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
 two prices ; whereas the cif price is that determined in                 tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (9),
 accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No
 1418/76 on the day on which the premiums are fixed ;                     for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 whereas the detailed rules for determining cif prices were               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                          these currencies recorded over a given period in rela­
 laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71                      tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif                 previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the correc­
 tive amounts relating thereto (6), as last amended by Regu­
 lation (EEC) No 2325/88 Q ; whereas the cif forward deli­
 very price is also determined in accordance with Article             Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions that
                                                                      the premiums should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
                                                                      whereas the amount of the premiums should be altered
 (') OJ No   L 166, 25.  6. 1976, p. 1.
 0   OJ No   L 197, 26.  7. 1988, p. 30.                              only if application of the abovementiOned provisions
 (J) OJ No   L 213, 11 . 8. 1975, p. 5.                               entails a change of more than 0,30 ECU,
 O   OJ No   L 190, 21 . 7. 1988, p. 28 .
 M OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976,' p. 30.
 («) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                               (8) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 n OI No L 202. 27. 7 . 1988 , p. 41 .                                O OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  2. The premiums to be added to the import levies
                                                               fixed in advance in respect of rice and broken rice origi­
                                                               nating in third countries shall be as set out in the Annex
                        Article 1                              hereto.
                                                                                        Article 2
1 . The premiums to be added to the import levies
fixed in advance in respect of rice and broken rice origi­     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
nating in Portugal shall be zero.                              1988 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 31 August 1988 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                            Vice-President
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                                                                ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1988 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                             import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                  (ECU / tonne)
                                                   Current            1st period            2nd period         3rd period
                         CN Code
                                                      9                   10                    11                  12
                        1006 10 91                    0                    0                    0
                        1006 10 99 (')                Ó                    0                    0               I
                        1006 20 10                    0                    0                    0                   —
                        1006 20 90 (J)                0                    0                    0                   —
                        1006 30 11                    0                    0                    0                   —
                        1006 30 19 (')                0                    0                    0                   —
                        1006 30 91                    0               ' ' 0                     0                   —
                        1006 30 99 (')                0                    0                    0                   —
                        1006 40 00                    0                    0                    0                   0
             (') The amount is applicable to medium-grain and long-grain rice, as defined in paragraph 2 of Annex A of Regula­
                 tion (EEC) No 1418/76, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3877/87 (OJ No L 365, 24. 12. 1987).