CELEX: 31978R0087
Language: en
Date: 1978-01-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 87/78 of 18 January 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

19 . 1 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 1 5/ 5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 87 /78
                                                         of 18 January 1978
                                       fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain
                                                                     wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               basis of quotations or prices on the world market
 Economic Community,                                                  relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 ;
 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                    whereas, for this calculation, the conversion rates
 tion of the market in rice (*), as amended by Regula­                resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 tion (EEC) No 1158/77 (2), and in particular Article 11              67/ EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
(2) thereof,                                                          the processing costs and the value of the by-products
                                                                      for the various stages of rice processing (9), as last
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                        amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 1572/77 ( 10), should
 Committee,                                                          be used where appropriate ;
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               Whereas, when these conversions are being effected ,
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                    the Commission must take account of the fact that
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                 certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
 to the difference between the threshold price and the                tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
 cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­            standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies              1423/76 and, in that case, to adjust the offers so as to
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                      conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken
wholly milled rice ;                                                 rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/ EEC, as
                                                                     amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                 no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1977/78
                                                                      husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
 marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 11 60/77 (3 ),                taken    into   consideration    are     lower than those
(EEC) No 1 639/77 (4) and (EEC) No 1832/77(5);                        provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the              Regulation No 467/67/ EEC ;
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­
cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76
and in Regulation (EEC) No 161 3/7 1 (6), as last                    Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 requires the
                                                                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 59/78 (7), and in
particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­                 offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­                product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
sentative of the real trend of the market, account                   adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
being taken in particular of the need to prevent                     fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
 sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­                  offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
bances on the Community market ; whereas the                         to a product presented in bulk ;
quality of the goods offered must also be taken into
account, whether this quality corresponds to the
standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                        Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
 1423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made                 the basis of the abovementioned factors , offers made
by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                   for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                    the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices               port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective
amounts relating thereto ;
                                                                     Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
(>)  OJ   No L 166, 25. 6 . 1976, p. 1 .                             Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain , the cif price
(2)  OJ  No  L 136, 2 . 6 . 1977, p. 13 .                            may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
(3 ) OJ  No  L 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 16 .                              during the following month or may be retained unal­
(«)  OJ   No L 183 , 22 . 7 . 1977, p. 4.
(5)  OJ  No  L 202, 9 . 8 . 1977, p. 14 .                            tered for a limited period ;
(6)  OJ  No  L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p. 28 .
( 7) OJ  No  L 10, 13 . 1 . 1978 , p. 11 .                           H OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p . 1 .
(8)  OJ  No  L 166, 25 . 6 . 1976, p. 20 .                           ( I0) OJ No L 174, 14 . 7 . 1977, p. 26 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy        — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     relation to each other at any given moment within
No 706/76 ('), as last amended by Regulation ( EEC)
No 3013 /77 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by
                                                                     a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
                                                                     their effective parity ;
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further            — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to               of these currencies recorded for a given period in
conditions , some of which are set out in Article 9 of               relation to the Community currencies referred to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                       in the previous subparagraph ;
1976 ;
                                                                 Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19                tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
July 1971 (3 ) altered the definitions given in Annex A          shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
to Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 and incorporated in
Supplementary Notes 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the
Common Customs Tariff ;                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion ( EEC) No 1418 /76, the nomenclature provided                                        Article 1
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                 The import levies to be charged on the products listed
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered             in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
in the intervening period to take account of variations           1418 /76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine          annexed to this Regulation .
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly
 milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only                                 Article 2
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of        This Regulation shall enter into force on 19 January
account per tonne in the amount of the levy in force ;            1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 January 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
 (») OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
 (2) OJ No L 355, 31 . 12. 1977, p. 31 .
 (3) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5.
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                                                                           ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 18 January 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                        broken rice
                                                                                                                                        (u.a. / tonne)
                      COT
                                                                                                                      Third            ACP or
                     heading                                          Description
                       No
                                                                                                                    countries         OCT (')(')
             10.06                          Rice :
                                            A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                                 I. Paddy rice :
                                                     a) Round grain                                                   53.96             23-98
                                                     b) Long grain                                                    65.13             29-57
                                                II . Husked rice :
                                                     a) Round grain                                                   67.45             30.73
                                                     b) Long grain                                                    81-41             37.71
                                            B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                                 I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                     a) Round grain                                                 119.37              49.79
                                                     b) Long grain                                                  208.25              94-26
                                                II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                     a) Round grain                                                 127.13              53-32
                                                     b) Long grain                                                  223-25             101.38
                                            C. Broken rice :                                                          73.91             34-46
            (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article V of Regulation ( EEC) No 706/ 76.
            ( : ) In accordance with Regulation ( EEC) No 706/ 76, the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of
                  products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories '.