CELEX: 31991R2590
Language: en
Date: 1991-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2590/91 of 30 August 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

31 . 8 . 91                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 243/5
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2590/91
                                                           of 30 August 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,                                                    1 423/76 (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 1 806/89 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (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 ;
 674/91 (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 1991 /92               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
 2149/91 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 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                       ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 Q, 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 75, 21 . 3. 1991 , p. 29.
0   OJ    No  L 200, 23. 7. 1991 , p. 10.
(<) 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                  rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and          tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating        increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
to them must be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                 the amount of the levy in force ;
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to
third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles 1 2 and 1 3         Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990               should be calculated on the following basis :
on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­                tion to each other at any given moment within a band
cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the               of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), as last                   rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 523/91 (2), the levy                     the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled and
                                                                        tion (EEC) No 1676/85 Q, as last amended by Regula­
wholly milled rice ;                                                    tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (8),
Whereas on importation into Portugal of products listed             — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
in Annex XXIV to the Act of Accession an additional
                                                                        average of the ecu rates published in the Official
amount is added to the levy ; whereas these amounts were                Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
set by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3808/90 (3) ;                     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
that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may
not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­                                       Article 1
grain rice ;
                                                                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 (^ and                 Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 (6) made                      shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
import arrangements for rice originating in Bangladesh ;
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in                                        Article 2
the intervening period to take account of variations in
threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled         1991 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States.
                   Done at Brussels, 30 August 1991 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ  No L  84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
(2) OJ  No L  58 , 5. 3. 1991 , p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  366, 29 . 12. 1990, p. 1 .
(4) OJ  No L  361 , 20 . 12. 1986, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No L  337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                              f) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
M OJ No L 88, 9. 4. 1991 , p. 7.                                    (8 OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9 .
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                                                                 ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 30 August 1991 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                               broken rice
                                                                                                                      (ECU / tonne)
                                                   Arrangement                ACP or OCT                   Third countries
                       CN code                in Regulation (EEC)                cm on                  (except ACP or OCT)
                                                   No 3877/86                   Bangladesh                        (3)
                      1006 10 21                                                  143,43                       294,07
                      1006 10 23                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 10 25                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 10 27                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 10 92                                                  143,43                       294,07
                      1006 10 94                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 10 96                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 10 98                      197,39                      127,99                       263,18
                      1006 20 11                                                  180,19                       3 67,59
                      1006 20 13                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 20 15                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 20 17                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 20 92                                                  180,19                       367,59
                      1006 20 94                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 20 96                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 20 98                     246,73                       160,88                       328,97
                      1006 30 21                                                 223,1 1                       470,07 0
                      1006 30 23                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 0
                      1006 30 25                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 O
                      1006 30 27                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 0
                      1006 30 42                                                 223,11                        470,07 0
                      1006 30 44                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 0
                      1006 30 46                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 0
                      1006 30 48                     404,48 0                    257,76                        539,30 0
                      1006 30 61                                                 237,96                        500,63 0
                      1006 30 63                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 30 65                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 30 67                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 30 92                                                 237,96                        500,63 0
                      1006 30 94                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 30 96                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 30 98                     433,60 0                    276,71                        578,13 0
                      1006 40 00                                                   71,59                       149,18
            (') 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 originating in the
                African, Caribean and Pacific States or in the overseas countries and territories and imported directly into the
                overseas department of Reunion.
            (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation
                (EEC) No 1418/76.
            (4) The levy on imports of rice, not including broken rice (CN code 1006 40 00), originating in Bangladesh is appli­
                cables under the arrangements laid down in Regulation (EEC) Nos 3491 /90 and 862/91 .
            O The levy on imports into Portugal is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
                3808/90.    .