CELEX: 31987R2603
Language: en
Date: 1987-08-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2603/87 of 28 August 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 245/36                             Official Journal of the European Communities                                  29 . 8 . 87
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/87
                                                      of 28 August 1987
                                    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 Q, 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 1907/87 (2), and in particular Article 11 (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 ^), as
variety falling within subheading ex 10.06 B I or II of the        last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2249/85 (®), should
Common Customs Tariff (3), and in particular Article 8             be used where appropriate ;
thereof,
                                                                   Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             Commission must take account of the fact that certain
                                                                    offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76                  broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                 fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly            one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
 milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­       67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
 rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;              prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                    rice   taken  into   consideration     are lower than   those
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,
 the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to           provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
 the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;             lation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1987/88             Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
 marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                   are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
 2332/87 (4) ;                                                      up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
                                                                    applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
 Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the            tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
 Commission must take account of the factors indicated in           for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
 Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in
 Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                  Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and          basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
 levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts          ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
 relating thereto (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
 No 3817/85 (6), and in particular the most favourable              relation to Rotterdam ;
 purchasing opportunities on the world market which are
 sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,       Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
 account being taken in particular of the need to prevent            Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
 sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances             calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
                                                                     following month or may be retained unaltered for a
 (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                                limited period ;
 (2) OJ No L 182, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 51 .
 (3) OJ No L 80, 24. 3 . 1987, p. 20.
 (4) OJ No L 210, 1 . 8 . 1987, p. 59 .                              O OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
 0 OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p . 28 .                              (8) OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
 fó OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 16.                               0 OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 13 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                    Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regulation
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and            (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating          Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No                 Tariff ;
486/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
73/87 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an amount
corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to third coun­             the intervening period to take account of variations in
tries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced in the               threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas the              prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
charging of this levy is subject to conditions, some of                rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
which are set out in Articles 1 0 and 1 1 of Regulation                tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
(EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation (EEC)                     increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in
 No 551 /85 (3) ;                                                      the amount of the levy in force ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985                       should be calculated on the following basis :
 must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of               — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from                        tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable                     of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
 in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying                        tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
 to trade in agricultural products between Spain and                        tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0,
 Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy                       these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
 should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
                                                                            tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into                        previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 account the situation with regard to market prices in
 Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain             Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
 the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade                 provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
 between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31                  Annex hereto,
 December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
                                                                                                    Article 1
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (*)
 defined a special arrangement for the importation of                  The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
 certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;                Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of                shall be as set out in the Annex hereto .
 that calculated in accordance with Article 1 1 of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may                                              Article 2
 not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
 price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
 grain rice ;                                                           1987 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States.
                     Done at Brussels, 28 August 1987 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                   Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                        Vice-President
 (') OJ  No  L  61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4.
 (2) OJ  No  L  11 , 13 , 1 . 1987, p. 23 .
 (3) OJ  No  L  63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10 .
 O   OJ  No  L  367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.                               («) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0   OJ  No  L  361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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                                                                         ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 28 August 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken rice
                                                                                                                                   (ECU / tonne)
                                                                                                    Third
               CCT
                                                                                                  countries         ACP or          Basmati
              heading                           Description                       Portugal
                No                                                                              (except ACP      OCT (') (2) 0          0
                                                                                                 or OCT) (3)
         ex 10.06            Rice :
                             B. Other :
                                    I. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                        a) Paddy rice :
                                           1 . Round grain                           —
                                                                                                   326,78           159,79             —
                                           2. Long grain                             —
                                                                                                   330,44            161,62          247,83
                                        b) Husked rice :                      I               \                                  l
                                           1 . Round grain                           —
                                                                                                   408,47           200,63              —
                                           2. Long grain                             —
                                                                                                   413,05           202,92           309,79
                                   II . Semi-milled or wholly milled          Il
       l                           rice :                                     IIIIIl
                                        a) Semi-milled rice :                 lili                                               Il
                                           1 . Round grain                          13,05           505,93           241,04             —
                                           2. Long grain                            12,97           600,33           288,28          450,25
                                        b) Wholly milled rice :                                                \
                                           1 . Round grain                          13,90           538,82           257,06             —
                                           2. Long grain                            13,90           643,56           309,43          482,67
                                  III . Broken rice                                 88,84           200,51            97,25             —
          N.B. The levies are to be converted into national currencies using the specific agricultural conversion rates fixed in Regulation (EEC)
                No 3294/ 86 .
         (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regulation No 551 /85.
         (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas department of Reunion of
             products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.
         (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.
         (4) This levy is applicable to Basmati rice covered by the arrangement provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86.