CELEX: 31976R2137
Language: en
Date: 1976-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2137/76 of 31 August 1976 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 9 . 76                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 240/ 5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2137/76
                                                           of 31 August 1976
                                        fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                          lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
 Economic Community,                                                   specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                        1613 /71 ; whereas, for this calculation , the conversion
 Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No                         rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
  1418/76 of 21 June 1976, on the common organiza­                     67/ EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
 tion of the market in rice ('), and in particular Article             the processing costs and the value of the by-products
  1 1 (2) thereof,                                                     for the various stages of rice processing (8), as last
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 484/75 (9), should
 Committee,                                                            be used where appropriate ;
 Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                   Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                 the Commission must take account of the fact that
 broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                    certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
 wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                 tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
 to the difference between the threshold price and the                 standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
 cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­               1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies               conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken
 applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                       rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/ EEC, as
 wholly milled rice ;                                                  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas
                                                                       no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
 Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                  husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1976/ 77
                                                                       taken    into  consideration      are    lower than  those
 marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1 427/76 (2),                  provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
 (EEC) No 1 778 /76 (3) and (EEC) No 1 922/76 (4) ;                    Regulation No 467/67/ EEC ;
 Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­
 cated in Article 16 of Regulation ( EEC) No 1418 /76                  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
                                                                       Commission to take account of the fact that certain
 and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3320/75 (6), and in                    offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
 particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­                  product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
 ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­                adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
 sentative of the real trend of the market, account                    fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
 being taken in particular of the need to prevent                      offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
 sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­                    to a product presented in bulk ;
 bances on the Community market ; whereas the
 quality of the goods offered must also be taken into                  Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
 account, whether this quality corresponds to the                      the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
 standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                         for other ports being adjusted , account being taken of
 1423/76 (7), or whether adjustments need to be made                   the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
 by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                    port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
 Commission Regulation ( EEC) No 1613 /71 of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices
 and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective                 Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
 amounts relating thereto ;                                            Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 obtain , the cif price
                                                                       may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
 Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained                    during the following month or may be retained unal­
 and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and                    tered for a limited period ;
(!)   OJ  No L  166, 25 . 6 . 1976, p . 1 .
(2 )  OJ  No L 166,  25 . 6 . 1976, p . 29 .                           Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
(3 )  OJ  No L 199 , 24 . 7 . 1976, p . 7 .                            interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
(4)   OJ  No L 210,  4. 8 . 1976, p . 9 .
(5 )  OJ  No L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p . 28 .
(6)   OJ  No L 328 , 20 . 12 . 1975, p . 32 .                          (s) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p . 1 .
( 7)  OJ  No L 166,  25 . 6 . 1976 , p . 20 .                          (') OJ No L 1 50 , 11.6 . 1 975, p . 7 .
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or of the 'overseas countries and territories , the levy           Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)                levies should be calculated on the following basis :
No 706/76 ('), be reduced by a fixed amount and by                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating                   relation to each other, at any given moment,
to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further                  within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled                   on their effective parity ;
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
1976 ;                                                                 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19                      in the previous subparagraph ;
July 1971 (2) altered the definitions given in Annex A
to Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 and incorporated in                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of                  tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
the Common Customs Tariff ;                                        shown in the table annexed to this Regulation ,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418 /76, the nomenclature provided                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
Customs Tariff ;                                                                             Article 1
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered               The import levies to be charged on the products listed
in the intervening period to take account of variations             in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine             1418 /76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly            annexed to this Regulation .
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy                                      Article 2
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of
account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
force ;                                                             1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p . 2.
(2 ) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p. 5 .
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                                                                            ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1976 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                         broken rice
                                                                                                                                     (ii. J. / nu tru ton)
                     CCT
                                                                                                                        Third             ACP and
                   heading                                        Description of goods
                      No
                                                                                                                     countries            Oct o n
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                               I. Paddy rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                                     105-85                 49-93
                                                   b) Long grain                                                      10417                  49-09
                                              II . Husked rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                                     132-31                 63-16
                                                   b) Long grain                                                      130-21                 62-1 1
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                               I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                                     1 54-29                67-25
                                                   b) Long grain                                                      231-19               105-73
                                              II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grain                                                     1 64-32                71-91
                                                   b) Long grain                                                      247-84               1 13-67
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                               63-83                29-42
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions ot Article 9 ot Regulation ( EEC) No 706/ 76 .
           ( : ) In accordance with Regulation ( EEC ) No 706 / 76 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas depart­
                 ments ot products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories '.