CELEX: 31974R3073
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3073/74 of the Commission of 5 December 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

6 . 12. 74                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 326/ 13
                                    REGULATION (EEC) No 3073/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 5 December 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 ( ! ) 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 11 29/74 (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 1 454/74 (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 1 6
  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 1 057/73 ( 8); whereas the cif forward                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
  delivery price must also be determined in accordance                        in the previous subparagraph ;
  0)   OJ  No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 .
  (2)  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 1.5.5 , 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
  (b)  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
  ( 8) OJ No   L 10.5, 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 6 December
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 , 5 December 1974 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
                                                            ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 5 December 1974 fixing the premiums to be added to
                                           the import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                          (u.a. / lOO kg)
           CCT                                                    Current          1st         2nd           3rd
          heading                 Description of goods                           period      period        period
            No                                                      12              1           2             3
      10.06            Rice :
                       A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                           I. 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 :
                           I. Semi-milled rice :
                               a ) Round grained                    0               0           0            —
                               b) Long grained                      0            0-354       0-354         0-354
                          II. Wholly milled rice :
                               a) Round grained                     0               0           0           __
                               b) Long grained                      0            0-380       0-380         0-380
                       C. Broken rice :                             0              0            0             0