CELEX: 31992R0586
Language: en
Date: 1992-03-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 586/92 of 6 March 1992 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 62/44                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                   7 . 3 . 92
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 586/92
                                                         of 6 March 1992
                                      fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                    No 1423/76 (7), or whether adjustments need to be made
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                    by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regu­
                                                                    lation (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
Economic Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
Portugal,                                                           grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
                                                                    milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
                                                                    quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
No 1 806/89 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof,         Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
                                                                    conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC)                        by-products for the various stages of rice processing (8), as
No 81 /92 of 15 January 1992 laying down detailed rules             last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88, should be
for the application of Council Regulation (EEC)                     used where appropriate ;
No 3877/86 on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic
Basmati variety (3), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
                                                                    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                    offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                  broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly            must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the                one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
difference between the threshold price and the cif price ;           67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,             prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to             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 1991 /92
marketing year by          Commission        Regulation   (EEC)      Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
No 2149/91 (4) ;                                                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
                                                                     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 ^, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
No 2325/88 (% 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
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,         relation to Rotterdam ;
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
                                                                     calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
(') OJ No   L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                               following month or may be retained unaltered for a
(2) OJ No   L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                               limited period ;
(3) OJ No   L 10, 16. 1 . 1992, p. 9.
(4) OJ No   L 200, 23. 7. 1991 , p. 10.
0   OJ No   L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                             0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6 . 1976, p. 20.
Ì6) OJ No L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .                                O OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                  than the difference between the free-at-frontier price for
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the         Basmati rice and the threshold price for long-grain rice ;
levy relating to them must be reduced by a fixed amount             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 Q and
and by an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy                  Commission Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 (8) made
relating to third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles         import arrangements for rice originating in Bangladesh ;
 12 and 13 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of
 5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­            Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
tural products and certain goods resulting from the                 the intervening period to take account of variations in
processing of agricultural products originating in the ACP          threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
States or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('),      prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 444/92 (2), the              rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
 levy must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled            tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
 and wholly milled rice ;                                           increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
                                                                    the amount of the levy in force ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the               should be calculated on the following basis :
overseas countries and territories with the European                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 Economic Community (3), no levies shall apply on                        tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 imports of products originating in the overseas countries               of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
 and territories ; whereas, pursuant to Article 101 (4) of the           rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 abovementioned Decision, a special amount shall be                      the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
 charged on imports of certain products originating in the               tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (9), as last amended by Regula­
 overseas countries and territories in order to prevent                  tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (10),
 products originating from these countries and territories          — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
 from receiving more favourable treatment than similar                   average of the ecu rates published in the Official
 products imported from Spain or Portugal into the                      Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
 Community as constituted on 31 December 1985 ;                          a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
                                                                         cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
 Whereas on importation into Portugal of products listed
 in Annex XXIV to the Act of Accession an additional                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
 amount is added to the levy ; whereas these amounts were           provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3808/90 (4) ;                 Annex hereto,
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 Q, as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 (6), defined a               The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
special arrangement for the importation of certain quanti­          Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                    shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
 ties of Basmati rice into the Community ; whereas this
arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of that calculated                                     Article 2
in accordance with Article 1 1 of Regulation (EEC)
 No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may not be less             This Regulation shall enter into force on 9 March 1992.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 6 March 1992.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 84, 30. 3 . 1990, p. 85.
(2) OJ  No  L  52, 27. 2. 1992, p. 7.
(3) OJ  No  L  263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .                            0 OJ No L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No  L  366, 29. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                            (8) OJ No L 88, 9. 4. 1991 , p. 7.
0   OJ  No  L  361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                           0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
O OJ No L 297, 29. 10. 1991 , p. 1 .                                H OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 6 March 1992 fixing the import levies on rice and broken
                                                                    rice
                                                                                                                    (ECU / tonne)
                                                                               Levies (7)           I
                        CN code                                                  irp                      Third countries
                                                  Arrangement
                                              in Regulation (EEC)              nonn                         (except ACP)
                                                 No 3877/86 (*)               Bangladesh                          0
                      1006 10 21                       —                        153,48                         314,16
                      1006 10 23                       —                        143,38                         293,96
                      1006 10 25                       —                        143,38                         293,96
                      1006 10 27                     220,47                     143,38                         293,96
                      1006 10 92                       —                        153,48                         314,16
                      1006 10 94                       —                        143,38                         293,96
                       1006 10 96                      —                        143,38                         293,96
                       1006 10 98                    220,47                     143,38                         293,96
                       1006 20 11                      —                        192,75                         392,70
                       1006 20 13                      —                        180,12                         367,45
                       1006,20 15                      —                        180,12                         367,45
                       1006 20 17                    275,59                     180,12                         367,45
                       1006 20 92                      —                        192,75                         392,70
                       10062094                        —                        180,12                         367,45
                       1006 20 96                      —                        180,12                         367,45
                       1006 20 98                    275,59                     180,12                         367,45
                       1006 30 21                      —                        238,74                         501,34 0
                       1006 30 23                      —                        281,28                         586,34 (5)
                       1006 30 25                      —                        281,28                         586,34 (5)
                       1006 30 27                    439,76 (5)                 281,28                         586,34 (()
                       1006 30 42                      —                        238,74                         501,34 (5)
                       1006 30 44                      —                        281,28                         586,34 0
                       1006 30 46                      —                        281,28                         586,34 0
                       1006 30 48                    439,76 0                   281,28                         586,34 0
                       1006 30 61                      —                        254,61                         533,93 0
                       1006 30 63                      —                        301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 30 65                      —                        301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 30 67                    471,42 0                   301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 30 92                      —                        254,61                         533,93 0
                       1006 30 94                      —                        301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 30 96                      —                        301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 30 98                    471,42 0                   301,93                         628,56 0
                       1006 40 00                      —                         63,22                         132,45
            (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90.
            (-) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 715/90, the levies are not applied to products originating in the
                 African, Caribbean and Pacific States and imported directly into the overseas department of Reunion .
            (■') The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation
                 (EEC) No 1418/76.
            (4) The levy on imports of rice, not including broken rice (CN code 1006 40 00), originating in Bangladesh is appli­
                 cables under the arrangements laid down in Regulation (EEC) Nos 3491 /90 and 862/91 .
           (5) The levy on imports into Portugal is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
                 3778/91 .
           (6) The levy 3778/91 imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati variety is applicable under the arrangements
                 laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 .
            O No import levy applies to OCT originating products according to Article 1 01 ( 1 ) of Decision 91 /482/EEC .