CELEX: 31991R0367
Language: en
Date: 1991-02-16 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 367/91 of 15 February 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

16. 2. 91                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 43/5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 367/91
                                                        of 15 February 1991
                                       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 (8), 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 1806/89 (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 of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati                by-products for the various stages of rice processing (9), as
variety falling within CN codes 1006 10, 1006 20 and                 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88, should be
 1 006 30 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     used where appropriate ;
 1 546/87 (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,             Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
                                                                     Commission must take account of the fact that certain
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                    offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                  broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly            must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­         one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;                67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,             prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                     rice   taken   into  consideration   are  lower than    those
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;               provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
                                                                     lation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1990/91               Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2104/90 0 ;                                                          are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
                                                                     up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the              applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in             tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in                     for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and           Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                     basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
relating thereto (% as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 f), and in particular the most favourable                 tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are               relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances              Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
                                                                     Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
(■) OJ  No   L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                             calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
(2) OJ  No   L  177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                             following month or may be retained unaltered for a
(3  OJ  No   L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20.                               limited period ;
(4) OJ  No   L  144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 10 .
I5) OJ No L 191 , 24. 7. 1990, p. 21 .
(6) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                               (8) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 .
0 OJ No L 202, 27. 7. 1988 , p. 41 .                                 O OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
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 Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                 prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
 interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and         rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
 of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating       tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
 to them must be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
 amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to               the amount of the levy in force ;
 third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles 12 and 13
 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products            should be calculated on the following basis :
 and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the              tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), as amended by            of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
 Regulation (EEC) No 297/91 (2), the levy must be further               rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
 reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled                   the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
 rice ;                                                                 tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (6), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                        tion (EEC) No 2205/90Q,
 Whereas on importation into Portugal of products listed
 in Annex XXIV to the Act of Accession an additional               — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
 amount is added to the levy ; whereas these amounts were               average of the ecu rates published in the Official
 set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3808/90 (3) ;                    Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
                                                                        a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the                     cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
 standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;
                                                                   Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4)                    provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
 defined a special arrangement for the importation of              Annex hereto,
 certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;
 whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 that calculated in accordance with Article 1 1 of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may
 not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier                                 Article 1
 price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­
grain rice ;                                                       The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
                                                                   Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 (*) made             shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
 import arrangements for rice originating in Bangladesh ;
                                                                                              Article 2
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
 the intervening period to take account of variations in           This Regulation shall enter into force on 18 February
 threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif           1991 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .
                   Done at Brussels, 15 February 1991 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No  L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2) OJ  No  L 36, 8 . 2. 1991 , p. 9 .
0   OJ  No  L 366, 29. 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(<) OJ  No  L 361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                           (6) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
O   OJ  No L  337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                             0 OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 15 February 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                              broken rice
                                                                                                                 (ECU/ tonne)
                                                  Arrangement               ACP or OCT
                                                                                                        Third countries
                      CN code                in Regulation (EEC)               OOO                   (except ACP or OCT)
                                                  No 3877/86                                               ' 00
                    1006 10 21                                                 160,00                        327,21
                    1006 10 23                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 10 25                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 10 27                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 10 92 .                      —
                                                                               160,00                        327,21
                    1006 10 94                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 10 96                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 10 98                      229,02                     149,08                        305,36
                    1006 20 11                        —
                                                                               200,90                        409,01
                    1006 20 13                      286,28                     1§7,25                        381,70
                    1006 20 15                      286,28                     187,25                        381,70
                    1006 20 17                      286,28                     187,25                        381,70
                    1006 20 92                        —
                                                                               200,90                        409,01
                    1006 20 94                      286,28                     187,25                        381,70
                    1006 20 96                      286,28                     187,25                        381,70
                    1006 20 98                      286,28                     187,25                        381,70
                    1006 30 21                        —
                                                                              249,19                        522,24 O
                    1006 30 23                      434,79 0                  277,97                        579,72 0
                    1006 30 25                      434,79 0                  277,97                        579,72 0
                    1006 30 27                      434,79 O                  277,97                        579,72 Is)
                    1006 30 42                        —
                                                                              249,19                        522,24 0
                    1006 30 44                      434,79 O                  277,97                        579,72 0
                    1006 30 46                      434,79 O                  277,97                        579,72 O
                    1006 30 48                      434,79 O                  277,97                        579,72 (0
                    1006 30 61                        —
                                                                              265,74                        556,19 0
                    1006 30 63                      466,10 H                  298,38                        621,46 O
                    1006 30 65                      466,10 0                  298,38                        621,46 0
                    1006 30 67                      466,10 0                  298,38                        621,46 O
                    1006 30 92                        —
                                                                              265,74                        556,19 0
                    1006 30 94                      466,10 0                  298,38                        621,46 0
                    1006 30 96                      466,10 0                  298,38                        621,46 0
                    1006 30 98                      466,10 0                  298,38                        621,46 O
                    1006 40 00                        —
                                                                                78,99                       163,98
          (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90.
          (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 715/90, the levies are not applied to products imported directly into the
              overseas department of Reunion of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
              overseas countries and territories.
          (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 1 1 a of Regulation
              (EEC) No 1418/76.
          (4) The import levy on rice originating in Bangladesh is specified in Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90.
          (®) On importation into Portugal the levy is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
              No 3808/90.