CELEX: 31987R0881
Language: en
Date: 1987-03-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 881/87 of 27 March 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

28 . 3 . 87                               Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 85/5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 881/87
                                                        of 27 March 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 (7), 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 1449/86 (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 f rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati                by-products for the various stages of rice processing (8), 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 Traiff (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
                                                                    lation No 467/67/EEC ;
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;
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 1986/87              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
2465/86 (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 2117/80 (*), 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 ;
0   OJ   No  L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 1 .
(3) OJ   No  L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20.
O   OJ   No  L 211 , 1 . 8. 1986, p. 12.                             O OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
0   OJ   No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                            (■) OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
¥) OJ No L 206, 8. 8. 1980, p. 15.                                   (' 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 10 and 11 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 (®),
to trade in agricultural products between Spain and
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               Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain           provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade               Annex hereto,
between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31
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 ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (*)                                                Article 1
defined a special arrangement for the importation of
certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;             The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of             Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
                                                                    shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may
not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier                                   Article 2
price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­
grain rice ;                                                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 30 March 1987.
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States .
                    Done at Brussels, 27 March 1987.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                   Vice-President
 o  OJ  No  L  61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4.
 0  OJ  No  L  11 , 13, 1 . 1987, p. 23.
 0  OJ  No  L  63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10.
 0  OJ  No  L  367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
 0  OJ  No  L  361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                            0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                                             ANNEX
                      to the Commission Regulation of 27 March 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                           broken rice
                                                                                                                                       (ECU / tonne)
                    CCT
                                                                                                        Third          ACP or           Basmati
                  heading                          Description                        Portugal
                     No                                                                              countries (3)  OCT OOO                0
             ex 10.06            Rice :
                                 B. Other :
                                        I. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                           a) Paddy rice :
                                              1 . Round grain                            —
                                                                                                       344,78           168,79             —
                                              2. Long grain                              —
                                                                                                       373,03           182,91           279,77
                                           b) Husked rice :                       l
                                              1 . Round grain                            —
                                                                                                       430,97          211,88              —
                                              2. Long grain                              —
                                                                                                       466,29          229,54            349,72
                                       II. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                                       rice :                                     I
                                           a) Semi-milled rice :                  l
                                              1 . Round grain                           13,05          533,06           254,60             —
                                              2. Long grain                             12,97          666,63           321,43           499,97
                                           b) Wholly milled rice :                I
                                              1 . Round grain                           13,90          567,71           271,50             —
           \                                  2. Long grain                             13,90          714,63           344,96           535,97
                                      III. Broken rice                                  82,92          213,85           103,92             —
             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.
             0 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'.
             0 The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 1 la of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.
             (*) This levy is applicable to Basmati rice covered by the arrangement provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86.