CELEX: 31979R1917
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1917/79 of 31 August 1979 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

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No L 222/8                             Official Journal of the European Communities                               1 . 9. 79
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1917/79
                                                     of 31 August 1979
                  fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 but on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                     basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price
                                                                 must be the cif price for shipment during the month
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            in which the import licence is issued in the case of
Economic Community,                                              imports to be effected during that month ; whereas in
                                                                 the case of imports to be effected during the month
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     following the month in which the import licence is
1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                  issued, this price must be the cif price for shipment
tion of the market in rice (!), as last amended by Regu­         during the month in which importation is expected to
lation (EEC) No 1 552/79 (2), and in particular Article          take place ; whereas in the case of imports to be
13 (6) thereof,                                                  effected during the remaining months for which the
                                                                 import licence is valid, this price must be the cif price
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     for shipment during the month preceding the month
Committee,
                                                                 in which importation is expected to take place ;
                                                                 whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made for
                                                                 shipment during a given month, this price should be
Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                   the price ruling for shipment during the last month
levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must
                                                                 in which an offer for forward delivery was made ;
include a premium for the current month and a
premium for each of the following months until the
expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;         Whereas the premium shall be 0 ECU if the cif
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                 forward delivery price is equal to the cif price or lower
Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                      by an amount not exceeding 0-30 ECU per tonne ;
2042/75 of 25 July 1975 on special detailed rules for
the application of the system of import and export               Whereas by virtue of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation
licences for cereals and rice (3), as last amended by            (EEC) No 1428/76 the premium may, however, be
Regulation (EEC) No 296/79 («) ;                                 fixed at a higher level in exceptional circumstances
                                                                 and within certain specified limits ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1428/76 of 21
June 1976 (5) lays down rules for the advance fixing of          Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies on rice and broken rice ;                                  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No                   — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
1428/76, where the cif price for husked rice, for                     relation to each other at any given moment within
milled rice or for broken rice determined on the day                  a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
on which the premiums are fixed is higher than the                    their effective parity ;
cif forward delivery price for the same product, the
premium should as a general rule be equal to the                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
price is that determined in accordance with Article 16                of these currencies recorded for a given period in
of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 on the day on which                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for               in the previous indent ;
determining cif prices were laid down in Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying                Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and levies on           March 1979 (8) laid down the coefficient for
rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                  expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
relating thereto (6), as last amended by Regulation               ECU ;
(EEC) No 1776/79 (7); whereas the cif forward
delivery price is also determined in accordance with
                                                                  Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
 ») OJ No  L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                            that the premiums should be as set out in the Annex
 2) OJ No  L  188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 9.                             hereto ; whereas the amount of the premiums should
 3) OJ No  L  213, 11 . 8. 1975, p. 5.                            be altered only if application of the abovementioned
 «) OJ No  L  41 , 16. 2. 1979, p. 34.                            provisions entails a change of more than 0-30 ECU,
 5) OJ No  L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 30.
 ') OJ No  L  168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
 J) OJ No  L  203, 11 . 8 . 1979, p. 15.                          («) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                              Article 2
                         Article 1
The premiums to be added to the import levies fixed
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice shall be            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
as set out in the Annex hereto.                                   1979 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 31 August 1979 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1979 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                            import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                      (ECU / tonne)
                   CCT                                              Current    1st period 2nd period •3rd period
                 heading                     Description
                    No                                                9            10         11          12
             10.06             Rice :                                                                I
                               A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :                                         l
                                    I. Paddy rice :                                                  \
                                        a) Round grain                0            0          0          —
                                        b) Long grain                 0            0          0          —
             I                     II . Husked rice :                                                l
                                        a) Round grain                0            0          0          —
                                        b) Long grain                 0            0          0          —
                                B. Semi-milled         or wholly                                     l
                                   milled rice :                                                     I
                                    I. Semi-milled rice :                                            \
                                        a) Round grain                0            0          0          —
                                        b) Long grain                 0            0          0          —
                                   II. Wholly milled rice :                                          \
                                        a) Round grain                0            0          0          —
                                        b) Long grain                 0            0          0          —
                                C. Broken rice                        0            0          0           0