CELEX: 31973R1732
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1732/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 176 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               30 . 6. 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1732/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 29 June 1973
                     fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC but on the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                        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 case of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               imports to be effected during that month ; whereas
 Economic Community ;                                                this price must be the cif price for shipment during
                                                                     the month in which importation is expected to take
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         place in the case of imports to be effected during the
 67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                  month following the month in which the import
 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                  licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
 Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of               price for shipment during the month preceding the
 new Member States to the European Economic                          month in which importation is expected to take place
 Community and the European Atomic Energy                            in the case of imports to be effected during the
 Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                   remaining months for which the import licence is
 and in particular Article 1 3 (6) thereof ;                         valid ; 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
 Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                      month in which an offer for forward delivery was
 levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must               made ;
 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 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                 more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 28/73 (5) ;                                  grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC (6) of 25                  Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fixing of              certain specified limits ;
levies on rice and broken rice ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Whereas under the terms of Regulation No 365/                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on
which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
forward delivery price for the same product, the                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
premium should as a general rule be equal to the                         on their effective parity ;
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif
price is that determined in accordance with Article 16              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC on the day on which                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
(EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last amended by Regulation                      in the previous subparagraph ;
(EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; whereas the cif forward delivery
price must also be determined in accordance with                    Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                    requested ;
 ■)  OJ No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .
 *)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14.
 >)  OJ No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 .                             Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
 ■•) OJ No  L 283 , 29 . 12. 1970, p . 1.5 .                        that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
 5)  OJ No  L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p . 16.                           Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
 6)  OJ No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 32.                             amount of the premiums should be altered only if
 7)  OJ No  L 262, 3 . 12 . 1970 , p. 3 .
 8)  OJ No  L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                           application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
 9)  OJ No  L 46, 22. 2. 1972, p. 9 .                               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
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                      ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                        levies on rice and broken rice (M
                                                                                                                           (m^./100 kg)
               CCT                                                                              1st           2nd            3rd
             heading                    Description of goods                 Current          period        period          period
               No                                                               7                8             9              10
         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              0              0
                                 II. Wholly milled rice :
                                      a) Round grained                          0               0              0             —
                                      b) Long grained                           0               0              0              0
                            C. Broken rice :                                    0               0              0              0
        t1) The period of validity of the licence it limited in accordance with Regulation OBEO No 2196/71. at last amended by fîfjih
            don (EEC) No 53S/73.