CELEX: 31995R0178
Language: en
Date: 1995-01-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 178/95 of 31 January 1995 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 24/52                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 2. 95
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 178/95
                                                        of 31 January 1995
                                      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 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made
                                                                    by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regu­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             lation (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
  Community,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76              Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                  grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No          milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
  1 869/94 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,           quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
                                                                    each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
 Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
 833/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for             Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
 the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86             conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
 on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati              by-products for the various stages of rice processing (9), as
 variety falling within CN codes 1006 10, 1006 20 and               last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88 (10), should
 1006 30 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                   be used where appropriate ;
 No 674/91 (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
                                                                    Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                   Commission must take account of the fact that certain
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and              broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
 broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly          fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
 milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the              must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
difference between the threshold price and the cif price ;          one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,            67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to            prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;              rice   taken  into   consideration   are  lower  than     those
                                                                    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 1994/95
marketing year        by     Commission     Regulation    (EC)      Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
No 2051 /94(0 ;                                                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
                                                                    are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the             up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in            applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in                    tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                   for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
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 1614/92 f), 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
                                                                    :alculated 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
,J) OJ No L 197, 30. 7. 1994, p. 7.                                 limited period ;
>3) OJ No L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20.
 4) OJ No L 75, 21 . 3. 1991 , p. 29.
^ OJ No L 210, 13. 8. 1994, p. 24.                                  8) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
^ OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28.                                 9) OJ No 204, 24. 8. 1967, p. 1 .
,y) OJ No L 170, 25. 6. 1992, p. 15.                                10) OJ No L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .
 ---pagebreak---  1 . 2. 95                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 24/53
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                 threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, the        prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
levy relating to them must be reduced by a fixed amount            rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
and by an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy                 tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
relating to third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles        increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
 12 and 13 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of                the amount of the levy in force ;
5 March 1990 on the arrangements applicable to agricul­
tural products and certain goods resulting from the                Whereas the representative market rates defined in
processing of agricultural products originating in the ACP         Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 (8), as
States or in the overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('),     last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1 50/95 (9), are used
as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2484/94 (2), the             to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies
levy must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled            and are used as the basis for determining the agricultural
and wholly milled rice ;                                           conversion rates of the Member States' currencies ;
                                                                   whereas detailed rules on the application and determina­
Whereas, pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of Council Decision
                                                                   tion of these conversions were set by Commission Regu­
91 /482/EEC of 25 July 1991 on the association of the
                                                                   lation (EEC) No 1068/93 (10), as last amended by Regula­
overseas countries and territories with the European
Economic Community (3), no levies shall apply on                   tion (EC) No 1 57/95 (»);
imports of products originating in the overseas countries
and territories ;                                                  Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
                                                                   provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                 Annex hereto,
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 (*), defined a
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
special arrangement for the importation of certain quanti­
ties of Basmati rice into the Community ; whereas this
arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of that calculated
in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EEC)                                             Article 1
No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may not be less
than the difference between the free-at-frontier price for         The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Basmati rice and the threshold price for long-grain rice ;         Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                   shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 (*) and
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 Q made
import arrangements for rice originating in Bangladesh ;                                      Article 2
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
the intervening period to take account of variations in            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 February 1995.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                   Done at Brussels, 31 January 1995.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                               Franz FISCHLER
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(■)  OJ No  L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2)  OJ No  L 265, 15. 10. 1994, p. 3.
O    OJ No  L 263, 19. 9. 1991 , p. 1 .
(4)  OJ No  L 361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                           (8) OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 .
0    OJ  No L 297, 29. 10. 1991 , p. 1 .                           0 OJ No L 22, 31 . 1 . 1995, p. 1 .
(«)  OJ  No L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                             (10) OJ No L 108, 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.
O    OJ  No L 88, 9. 4. 1991 , p. 7.                               (") See page 1 of this Official Journal.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 24/54                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                              1 . 2. 95
                                                                 ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 January 1995 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                               broken rice
                                                                                                                   (ECU/ tonne)
                                                                                Levies (6)
                        CN code
                                                  Arrangement                      ACP                    Third countries
           l                                  in Regulation (EEC)              Bangladesh                (except ACP and
                                                 No 3877/86 0                   C) P) 0 0                  Bangladesh) (3)
                       1006 10 21                                                219,72                        446,66
                       1006 10 23                      —
                                                                                 222,15                        451,51
                       1006 10 25                      —
                                                                                 222,15                        451,51
                       1006 10 27                    338,63                      222,15                        451,51
                       1006 10 92                      —
                                                                                 219,72                        446,66
                       1006 10 94                      —
                                                                                 222,15                        451,51
                       1006 10 96                      —
                                                                                 222,15                        451,51
                       1006 10 98                    338,63                      222,15                        451,51
                       1006 20 11                      —
                                                                                 227,58                        462,38
                       1006 20 13                      —
                                                                                 230,10                        467,40
                       1006 20 15                      —
                                                                                 230,10                        467,40
                       1006 20 17                    350,55                      230,10                        467,40
                       1006 20 92                      —
                                                                                 227,58                        462,38
                       1006 20 94                      -—
                                                                                 230,10                        467,40
                       1006 20 96                      —
                                                                                 230,10                        467,40
                       1006 20 98                    350,55                      230,10                        467,40
                       1006 30 21                      —
                                                                                 345,29                        714,43
                       1006 30 23                      —
                                                                                 399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 25                      —
                                                                                 399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 27                    617,70                      399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 42                      —
                                                                                 345,29                        714,43
                       1006 30 44                      —
                                                                                 399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 46                      —
                                                                                 399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 48                    617,70                      399,91                        823,61
                       1006 30 61                      —
                                                                                 302,70                        630,11
                       1006 30 63                      —
                                                                                 353,24                        731,18
                       1006 30 65                      —
                                                                                 353,24                        731,18
                       1006 30 67                    548,39                      353,24                        731,18
                       1006 30 92                      —
                                                                                 302,70                        630,11
                       1006 30 94                      —
                                                                                 353,24                        731,18
                       1006 30 96                      —
                                                                                 353,24                        731,18
                       1006 30 98                    548,39                      353,24                        731,18
                       1006 40 00                      —
                                                                                   60,44                       126,89
            (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90.
            (2) 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.
            (3) 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
                 cable under the arrangements laid down in Regulations (EEC) No 3491 /90 and (EEC) No 862/91 .
            Is) The levy on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati variety is applicable under the arrangements laid
                 down in amended Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86.
             (6) No import levy applies to products originating in the OCT pursuant to Article 101 ( 1 ) of amended Decision
                 91 /482/ EEC.