CELEX: 31974R2237
Language: en
Date: 1974-08-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2237/74 of the Commission of 29 August 1974 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

30 . 8 . 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 238 / 17
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2237/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 29 August 1974
                                       fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
 COMMUNITIES,                                                         and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
                                                                      long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               lated on the- basis of quotations or prices on the world
 Economic Community ;
                                                                      market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                          specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
 67/EEC ( 1 ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the conversion
 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­               rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 tion (EEC) No 11 29/74 (2), and in particular Article 11             67/EEC (9) of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion
 (2) thereof ;                                                        rates, the processing costs and the value of the
                                                                      by-products for the various stages of rice processing,
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
 Committee ;
                                                                      as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808 /74 (10),
                                                                      should be used where appropriate ;
 Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC
 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 No 362/67/EEC
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies              and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to conform
 applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                     with the value of one kilogramme of broken rice as
 wholly milled rice ;                                                 fixed by Regulation No 467/67/ EEC, as amended by
 Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                 Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74, whereas no adjustment
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/75               is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and
 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1718/74 (3)                    semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­
 and (EEC) No 1935/74 (4) ;                                           tion are lower than those provided for in the last
                                                                      subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the               67/ EEC ;
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­
 cated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and
 in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last amended
 by Regulation (EEC) No 1057/73 (6), and in particular               Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
 the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the                  Commission to take account of the fact that certain
world market which are sufficiently representative of                 offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
 the real trend of the market, account being taken in                 product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
 particular of the need to prevent sudden variations                 adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
 likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­                 fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
 nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered              offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
 must also be taken into account, whether this quality               to a product presented in bulk ;
corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regula­
tion No 362/67/EEC (7), as last amended by Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1555/71 (8), or whether adjustments                    Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
need to be made by applying the corrective amounts                   the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No                       for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules                  the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice             port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
and the corrective amounts relating thereto ;
(») OJ   No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ   No  L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20.                            Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
(3) OJ   No  L 181 , 4. 7. 1974, p. 7.                               Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
(4) OJ   No  L 203 , 25. 7. 1974, p. 22.
(5) OJ   No  L 168 , 27 . 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                          may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
(b) OJ   No  L 105, 20 . 4. 1973, p. 10 .
(7) OJ   No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 27.                               H OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(8) OJ   No  L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 11 .                              » 0) OJ No L 188 , 12 . 7 . 1974, p. 34.
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during the following month or may be retained unal­             if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy
tered for a limited period ;                                    entail an increase or a reduction of at least 0-10 unit
                                                                of account per 100 kilogrammes in the amount of the
Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the              levy in force ;
interests   of   the    Associated    African   States and
Madagascar and of the Overseas Countries and Terri­             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
tories, the levy relating to them must, pursuant to              levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Regulation (EEC) No 540/70 ( !), be reduced by a fixed          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
amount and by an amount corresponding to 45 % of                     relation to each other, at any given moment,
the levy relating to third countries ; whereas the levy              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled
                                                                     on their effective parity ;
and wholly milled rice ; whereas, under Article 2 of
Regulation (EEC) No 540/70, the charging of this levy           — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
is subject to conditions, some of which are set out in               arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 430/72 (2) of 29                      of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
February 1972 on implementing measures concerning                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
imports of rice and broken rice originating in the                   in the previous subparagraph ;
Associated African States and Madagascar or in the               Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Overseas Countries and Territories ;
                                                                 tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 (3) of               shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation ;
19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in Annex A
of Regulation ' No 359/67/EEC and incorporated in                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of
the Common Customs Tariff ;
                                                                                         Article 1
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion No 359/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                 in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
Customs Tariff ;                                                 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
                                                                 annexed to this Regulation .
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
in the intervening period to take account of variations                                  Article 2
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly         This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only          1974 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 29 August 1974.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                              P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                        Member of the Commission
(>) OJ No L 68, 25. 3. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 52, 1 . 3 . 1972, p. 41 .
(3) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5.
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                                                                        ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1974 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                       broken rice
                                                                                                                                 (u.a./lOO kit)
               CCT                                                                                                Third           AASM /
              heading                                   Description of goods                                    countries      OCT (') («)
                No
        » 0.06
        in.ne                              Rice :
                                           Λ . Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                                I. Paddy rice :
                                                    a ) Round grained                                               0                0
                                                    b) Long grained                                                 0                0
                                               II . Husked rice :
                                                    a) Round grained                                                0                0
                                                    b) Long grained                                                 0                0
                                           li. Seini-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                                I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                    a) Round grained                                                0                0
                                                    b) Long grained                                                 0                0
                                               H. Wholly milled rice :
                                                    a) Round grained                                                0                0
                                                    b) Long grained                                                 0                0
                                           C. Broken rice                                                           0                0
       (') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departmenti of
            products originating in the AASM and OCT.
       (*) This levy ii applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70.