CELEX: 31973R1646
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1646/73 of the Commission of 21 June 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 165/ 18                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               22. 6 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1646/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 21 June 1973
                    fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC but on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                        basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price
                                                                    must be the cif price for shipment during the month
                                                                    in which the import licence is issued in the case of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               imports to be effected during that month ; whereas
Economic Community ;                                                this price must be the cif price for shipment during
                                                                    the month in which importation is expected to take
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         place in the case of imports to be effected during the
67/EEC ( 1) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                 month following the month in which the import
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                  licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of               price for shipment during the month preceding the
new Member States to the European Economic                          month in which importation is expected to take place
Community and the European Atomic Energy                            in the case of imports to be effected during the
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                   remaining months for which the import licence is
and in particular Article 1 3 (6) thereof ;                         valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
                                                                    for shipment during a given month, this price should
                                                                    be the price ruling for shipment during the last
Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                      month in which an offer for forward delivery was
levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must               made ;
include a premium for the current month and a
premium for each of the following months until the                  Whereas the premium is equal to 0 units of account if
expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;            the cif price determined on the day on which the
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                    scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the cif
Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    forward delivery price or exceeds that price by not
2637/70 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last amended by                 more than 0-025 units of account per 100 kilo­
Regulation (EEC) No 128 /73 (5) ;
                                                                    grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC (6) of 25                  Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fixing of              certain specified limits ;
levies on rice and broken rice ;
                                                                    Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
Whereas under the terms of Regulation No 365/                       levies should be calculated on the following basis :
67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif                      relation to each other, at any given moment,
forward delivery price for the same product, the                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
premium should as a general rule be equal to the                         on their effective parity ;
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif
price is that determined in accordance with Article 16              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC on the day on which                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for                  of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
(EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last amended by Regulation                      in the previous subparagraph ;
(EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; whereas the cif forward delivery
 price must also be determined in accordance with                   Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                     requested ;
(') OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.
(3) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .                             Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
(4) OJ  No  L 283 , 29 . 12. 1970 , p . 15 .                         that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
(5) OJ  No  L 17, 20 . 1 . 1973 , p . 16.                            Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
(6) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 32 .                             amount of the premiums should be altered only if
(7) OJ  No  L 262, 3 . 12 . 1970 , p . 3 .
(») OJ  No  L 168 , 27. 7 . 1971 , p . 28 .                          application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
H   OJ  No  L 46, 22 . 2 . 1972, p . 9 .                             change of more than 0-025 i nit of account ;
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                 hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this
                                                                              Regulation .
                             Article 1                                                                  Article 2
The premiums to be added to the import levies fixed                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 June
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                             1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 21 June 1973 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                      ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 21 June 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                       levies on rice and broken rice (l)
                                                                                                                           (MM.ItOO kg)
               CCT                                                                              1st           2nd            3rd
             heading                   Description of goods                  Current          period         period         period
                No                                                             6                 7             8               9
        10.06              Rice :
                           A Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                 I. Paddy rice :
                                     a) Round grained                          0                0              0             —
                                     b) Long grained                           0                0              0               0
                                II . Husked rice :
                                     a) Round grained                          0                0              0             —
                                     b) Long grained                           0                0              0               0
                           B. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                                rice :
                                 I. Semi-milled rice :
                                     a) Round grained                          0                0              0             —
                                     b) Long grained                           0                0              0              0
                                II. Wholly milled rice :
                                     a) Round grained                          0                0              0             —
                                     b) Long grained                           0                0              0               0
                           C. Broken rice :                                    0                0              0               0
       (*) The period of validity of the licence is limited in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2196/71, as late amended by
           tion (EEC) No 538/73.