CELEX: 51989PC0116
Language: en
Date: 1989-03-16
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1418/76 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN RICE

20. 4. 89                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No C 99/ 11
                                                                 II
                                                         (Preparatory Acts)
                                                    COMMISSION
               Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 on the
                                            common organization of the market in rice
                                                        COM(89) 116 final
                                        (Submitted by the Commission on 22 March 1989)
                                                           (89/C 99/13)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             Whereas the subsidy arrangements provided for in
                                                                     Article 11a (4) of Regulation (EEC) N o 1418/76 do not
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                permit direct control of the trend in the amount of the
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                     subsidy on the basis of the prices or quotations on the
thereof,                                                             Community market; whereas periodical fixing of the
                                                                     subsidy would permit the amount to be adapted more
                                                                     closely to the requirements of the Community market on
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                   the one hand and to the supply requirements of the
                                                                     Reunion market on the other hand,
Having regard        to   the   opinion    of   the  European
Parliament,
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                                                 Article 1
Social Committee,
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 is hereby amended as
Whereas the classification of rice was amended by                    follows:
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/87 0 ) ; whereas
Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) N o 2658/87 of 23                1. Article 1 (1) is replaced by the following:
July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and
on the Common Customs Tariff (2) was accordingly                        '1.    The common organization of the market in rice
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3174/88 ( 3 ); whereas                   shall comprise a price and trading system and shall
the combined nomenclature codes in Article 1 (1) of                     cover the following products:
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2229/88 (5)> should                            CN code                       Description
therefore be updated;
                                                                         (a) 1006 10 21     Rice in the husk
Whereas Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                           1006 10 23
lays down measures derogating from the levy                                  1006 10 25
arrangements provided for in Article 11 of that Regu-                        1006 10 27
                                                                             1006 10 92
lation and in particular the collection of a levy on                         1006 10 94
imports of milled rice, reduced to the amount for the                        1006 10 96
protection of the industry; whereas the reduction of the                     1006 10 98
levy to the amount for the protection of the industry is
                                                                             1006 20        Husked (brown) rice
insufficient to ensure the competitiveness of the Reunion
rice industry; whereas the arrangements for imports of                       1006 30        Semi-milled     or wholly-milled   rice,
milled rice into Reunion should be amended as regards                                       whether or not polished or glazed
the collection of the levy;
                                                                         (b) 1006 40 00     Broken rice
(1) OJ  No  L 365, 24. 12. 1987, p. 1.                                   (c) 1102 30 00     Rice flour
(2) OJ  No  L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1.                                         1103 14 00     Groats and meal of rice
                                                                             1103 29 50     Pellets of rice
O   OJ  No  L 298, 31. 10. 1988, p. 1.                                                      Flaked rice
                                                                             1104 1991
(4) OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.                                        1108 19 10     Rice starch'
(5) OJ  No  L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 30.
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2. Article 11a is replaced by the following:                         or quotations of those products on the Community
                                                                     market.
    'Article 11a
                                                                     The subsidy shall be granted on application by the
   1.     This Article shall apply to products intended to           party concerned.
   be consumed in the French overseas department of
   Reunion.                                                          The subsidy shall be fixed periodically in accordance
                                                                     with the procedure laid down in Article 27. However,
   2.     Notwithstanding Article 11 (1) (a), (b), (c), (d)          where the need arises, the Commission may, at the
   and (i), no levy shall be charged on imports of                   request of a Member State or on its own initiative,
   products falling within C N codes 1006 10 (excluding              alter the subsidy in the interval.
   1006 10 10), 1006 20 and 1006 40 00 into the French
   overseas department of Reunion.                                   5.    The regulations on the financing of the common
                                                                     agricultural policy shall apply to the subsidy provided
   3.     Notwithstanding Article 11 (1) (e), (f), (g) and           for in paragraph 4.
   (h), the levy to be charged on imports of products
   falling within C N codes 1006 30 into the French                  6.    The detailed rules for the application of this
   overseas department of Reunion shall be multiplied by             Article shall be adopted in accordance with the
   a coefficient of 0,30.                                            procedure laid down in Article 27.'
   4.     A subsidy may be fixed for consignments to the                                    Article 2
   French overseas department of Reunion of products
   falling within C N code 1006 excluding codes                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
   1006 10 10 which come from the Member States and              following its publication in the Official Journal of the
   are in one of the situations referred to in Article 9 (2)     European Communities.
   of the Treaty.
                                                                 It shall apply from . . .
   That subsidy shall be fixed on the basis of the
   difference between the prices or quotations of the            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
   relevant products on the world market and the prices          directly applicable in all Member States.