CELEX: 31973R1815
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1815/73 of the Commission of 5 July 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 184/ 12                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                 6. 7. 73
                           REGULATION (EEC) No 1813 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 5 Jul f 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
                                                                  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on
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 .
(*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.
h) 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
(*) OJ  No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 32.                              amount of the premiums should be altered only if
O   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
P)  OJ  No L 46, 22. 2. 1972, p. 9 .                              change of more than 0-025 unit 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
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                        This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 July 1973.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 5 July 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
                                                                  ANNEX
                       to the Commission Regulation of 5 July 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                     levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                 (u.a.UQO kg)
               CCT                                                                        1st        2nd            3rd
             heading                 Description of goods               Current         period      period        period
               No                                                          7               8          9              10
         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