CELEX: 31991R0915
Language: en
Date: 1991-04-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 915/91 of 12 April 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

13 . 4. 91                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 92/5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 915/91
                                                         of 12 April 1991
                                      fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the
                                                                    goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No
 Economic Community,                                                 1423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by
                                                                    applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
 Portugal,
                                                                    Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76               grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
No 1 806/89 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof,         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
 883/87 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, should be
 1006 30 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     used where appropriate ;
674/91 (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             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
                                                                    broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
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 diffe­        one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
rence 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
                                                                    rice   taken   into  consideration   are  lower than    those
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to
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 1990/91              Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2104/90 (5) ;                                                       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           Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                    basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
relating thereto (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)           ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 Q, and in particular the most favourable                 tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are              relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances             Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
(') OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
                                                                    calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
(2) OJ  No  L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                              following month or may be retained unaltered for a
0   OJ  No  L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20.                               limited period ;
(4) OJ  No  L 75, 21 . 3. 1991 , p. 29.
0   OJ  No  L 191 , 24. 7. 1990, p. 21 .
(6) OJ  No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                            (8) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 .
0   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                 threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and         prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating       rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
to them must be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to               increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 2 and 1 3        the amount of the levy in force ;
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990
on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­           should be calculated on the following basis :
cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), as last                  tion to each other at any given moment within a band
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 523/91 (2), the levy                    of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled and                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
wholly milled rice ;                                                   the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 1676/85 0, as last amended by Regula­
Whereas on importation into Portugal of products listed                tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (8),
in Annex XXIV to the Act of Accession an additional
amount is added to the levy ; whereas these amounts were           — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3808/90 (3) ;                    average of the ecu rates published in the Official
                                                                       Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                     a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;                          cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4)                    Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
defined a special arrangement for the importation of               provisions that the levies should be fixed as set Out in the
certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;            Annex hereto,
whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of
that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may
not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­                                      Article 1
grain rice ;                                                       The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 (^ and                Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 (6) made                     shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
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 15 April 1991 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 12 April 1991 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No  L  84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2) OJ No  L  58 , 5. 3 . 1991 , p. 1 .
(3) OJ No  L  366, 29. 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No  L  361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .
0   OJ No  L  337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(*) OJ No  L  88 , 9 . 4. 1991 , p. 7 .                            ¥) OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 12 April 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and broken
                                                                   rice
                                                                                                                 (ECU / tonne)
                                                Arrangement                  ACP or OCT                  Third countries
                      CN code               in Regulation (EEC)                 cmon                  (except ACP or OCT)
                                                 No 3877/86                   Bangladesh                       0
                     1006 10 21                                                  153,70                      314,61
                     1006 10 23                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 10 25                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 10 27                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 10 92                       —
                                                                                 153,70                      314,61
                     1006 10 94                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 10 96                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 10 98                    220,34                        143,29                      293,78
                     1006 20 11                       —
                                                                                 193,03                      393,26
                     1006 20 13                    275,42                        180,01                      367,23
                     1006 20 15                    275,42                        180,01                      367,23
                     1006 20 17                    275,42                      . 1.80,01                     367,23
                     1006 20 92                       —
                                                                                 193,03                      393,26
                     1006 20 94                    275,42                        180,01                      367,23
                     1006 20 96                    275,42                        180,01                      367,23
                     1006 20 98                    275,42                        180,01                      367,23
                     1006 30 21                       —
                                                                                 238,93                      501,71 (5)
                     1006 30 23                    435,85 (5)                    278,68                      581,13 0
                     1006 30 25                    435,85 (5)                    278,68                      581,13 0
                     1006 30 27                    435,85 ( 5)                   278,68                      581,13 (5)
                     1006 30 42                       —
                                                                                 238,93                      501,71 O
                     1006 30 44                    435,85 (5)                    278,68                      581,13 0
                     1006 30 46                    435,85 (5)                    278,68                      581,13 0
                     1006 30 48                    435,85 (<)                    278,68                      581,13 0
                     1006 30 61          \                                       254,81                      534,33 0
                     1006 30 63                    467,24 0                      299,14                      622,98 O
                     1006 30 65                    467,24 (5)                    299,14                      622,98 0
                     1006 30 67                    467,24 0                      299,14                      622,98 0
                     1006 30 92          \                                       254,81                      534,33 0
                     1006 30 94                    467,24 (■<)                   299,14                      622,98 O
                     1006 30 96                    467,24 0                      299,14                      622,98 0
                     1006 30 98                    467,24 (5)                    299,14                      622,98 0
                     1006 40 00                       —
                                                                                  73,52                      153,04
           (') 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, Caribean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories 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 lewy on imports of rice originating in Bangladesh is applicables under the arrangements laid down in Regu­
               lation (EEC) Nos 3491 /90 and 862/91 .
           0 The levy on imports into Portugal is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
               3808 /90 .