CELEX: 31973R1122
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-01 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1122/73 of the Commission of 30 April 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 115 / 10                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 5 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 1122/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 30 April 1973
                               fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
   THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       on which the premiums are fixed ; whereas the de­
   COMMUNITIES,                                                         tailed rules for determining cif prices were laid
                                                                        down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last
                                                                        amended by Regulation (EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; where­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                    as the cif forward delivery price must also be
  pean Economic Community ;                                             determined in accordance with Article 16 of Regula­
                                                                        tion No 359/67/EEC but on the basis of offers at
                                                                        North Sea ports ; whereas this price must be the
  Having regard to Council Regulation No
  359/67/EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common or­                      cif price for shipment during the month in which
                                                                        the import licence is issued in the case of imports to
  ganization of the market in rice, as last amended by                 be effected during that month ; whereas this price
  the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession
                                                                        must be the cif price for shipment during the
 of new Member States to the European Economic                         month in which importation is expected to take
  Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­                        place in the case of imports to be effected during
  munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and                   the month following the month in which the import
  in particular Article 13 (6) thereof ;                               licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the
                                                                       cif price for shipment during the month preceding
                                                                       the month in which importation is expected to take
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          place in the case of imports to be effected during
  Committee ;
                                                                       the remaining months for which the import licence
                                                                       is valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is
 Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                        made for shipment during a given month, this price
 levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice                      should be the price ruling for shipment during the
 must include a premium for the current month and                      last month in which an offer for forward delivery
 a premium for each of the following months until                      was made ;
 the expiry of the period of validity of the import                   Whereas the premium is equal to 0 units of account
 licence ; whereas this period of validity was laid                    if the cif price determined on the day on which
 down in Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation                      the scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the
 (EEC) No 2637/70 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last                    cif forward delivery price or exceeds that price by
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 128 /73 (5 ) ;                        not more than 0·025 unit of account per 100 kilo­
                                                                      grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC ( 6) of
25 July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC )                    Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
No 2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fix­                  higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
ing of levies on rice and broken rice ;                               certain specified limits ;
                                                                     Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                     levies should be calculated on the basis of an
Whereas under the terms of Regulation No
365 /67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice,                    exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
for milled rice or for broken rice determined on the                 which are floating or whose central rat? differs from
day on which the premiums are fixed is higher than                   the official parity, on the effective rate or the
the cif forward delivery price for the same prod­                    central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
uct, the premium should as a general rule be equal                   the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
to the difference between these two prices ; whereas                 on 13 February 1973 ;
the cif price is that determined in accordance with
Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC on the day                    Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                     sions that the premiums should be fixed as shown
                                                                     in the Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas
                                                                     the amount of the premiums should be altered only
(*)  OJ No   174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 .                              if application of the abovementioned provisions
(»)  OJ No   L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .                           entails a change of more than 0·025 unit of account;
(*)  OJ No   L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p . 5 .
(4)  OJ No   L 283 , 29 . 12 . 1970, p . 15
(*)  OJ No   L 17, 20. 1 . 1973 , p . 16.
(•)  OJ No   174 , 31 . 7. 1967, p . 32.                             ( 8) OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
{*)  OJ No   L 262, 3 . 12 . 1970, p . 3 .                           ( 9) OJ No L 46, 22 . 2 . 1972, p . 9.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                 are hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to
                                                                              this Regulation .
                            Article 1                                                                    Article 2
The premiums to be added to the import levies                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May
fixed in advance in respect of rice and broken rice                           1973 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States.
                Done at Brussels, 30 April 1973 .
                                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                                           P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                     ANNEX
                to the Commission Regulation of 30 April 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                        levies on rice and broken rice (*)
                                                                                                                            (u.a. /100 kit)
              CCT                                                                               1st            2nd             3rd
             heading                    Description of goods                 Current          period          period         period
               No                                                              5                6               7               8
        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
        C) The period of validity of the licence is limited in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2196/71 , as last amended by Regula­
           tion (EEC) No 538/73 .