CELEX: 31986R0743
Language: en
Date: 1986-03-13 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 743/86 of 12 March 1986 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 70/34                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 13. 3 . 86
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 743/86
                                                         of 12 March 1986
                                       fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           corrective amounts provided for in Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      1613/71 ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                      Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
                                                                     grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
                                                                      milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
 Portugal,
                                                                      quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
                                                                      each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                      Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                    Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
                                                                      conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
 market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     by-products for the various stages of rice processing Q, as
 No 3768/85 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof,
                                                                      last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2249/85 (8), should
                                                                     be used where appropriate ;
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                     Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                     Commission must take account of the fact that certain
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                  offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and               broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly             fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
 milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­        must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
 rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;               one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,              67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to             prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;               rice   taken  into   consideration   are  lower than    those
                                                                     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 1985/86
marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 2250/85 (3) ;                  Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
                                                                     Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
                                                                     are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the              up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in
                                                                     applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in                     tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                    for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
relating thereto (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2117/80 (*), and in particular the most favourable                Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are               basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,         ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent             tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
                                                                     relation to Rotterdam :
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances
on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the
goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
this quality as fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (*),            Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the               Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
                                                                     calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
(') OJ No   L 166,  25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                              following month or may be retained unaltered for a
 2) OJ No   L 362,  31 . 12. 1985, p. 8 .                            limited period ;
(3) OJ No   L 210,  7. 8 . 1985, p. 14.
0   OJ No   L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
O   OJ Nó   L 206,  8 . 8 . 1980, p. 15.                             0 OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
M OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.                                   (8) OJ No L 210, 7. 8. 1985, p. 13.
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 Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                    threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
 interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and            prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
 of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating          rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
 to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No                         tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
 486/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in
 692/86 (2), 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 the levy must be further reduced            Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
 in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ;                   should be calculated on the following basis :
whereas the charging of this levy is subject to conditions,
 some of which are set out in Articles 1 0 and 1 1 of Regu­            — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 lation (EEC) No 486/85 and in Regulation (EEC) No                         tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 551 /85 (3) ;                                                             of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                           rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,                  the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
 the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985                          tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 («),
 must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of               — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable                    these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
 in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under                  tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                     previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying
to trade in agricultural products between Spain and
 Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in             Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
 the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied                  provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy                   Annex hereto,
should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into
account the situation with regard to market prices in
 Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31
December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
                                                                                                  Article 1
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (^ deter­
mined the standard qualities for rice and broken 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, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regulation            shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
(EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this
Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs
Tariff ;
                                                                                                  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 13 March 1986.
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels, 12 March 1986.
                                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                                  Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                     Vice-President
(') OJ   No   L 61 , 1 . 3.  1985, p. 4.
0   OJ   No   L 63, 5. 3.    1986.
(3) OJ   No   L 63, 2. 3.    1985, p. 10.
(4) OJ   No   L 367, 31 .   12. 1985, p. 7.
0   OJ   No   L 166, 25.    6. 1976, p. 20.                           (6) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
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                                                                  ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 12 March 1986 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                broken rice
                                                                                                                  (ECU/ tonne)
               CCT
                                                                                                 \   Third         ACP or
             heading                                Description                      Portugal     countries (3)  OCT 000
                No
       ex 10.06              Rice :                                              II
                             B. Other :                                          \\
                                   I. Paddy rice ; husked rice :                 ll
                                       a) Paddy rice :                           ll
                                          1 . Round grain                              —
                                                                                                    314,82          153,81
                                          2. Long grain                                —
                                                                                                    318,09          155,44
                                       b) Husked rice :                          ll
                                          1 . Round grain                              —
                                                                                                    393,53          193,16
                                          2. Long grain                                —
                                                                                                    397,61          195,20
       I                          II . Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :       l
       I                               a) Semi-milled rice :                     \
                                          1 . Round grain                             13,05         485,78          230,96
                                          2. Long grain                               12,97         615,59          295,91
                                       b) Wholly milled rice :                                 I
                                          1 . Round grain                             13,90         517,36          246,33
                                          2. Long grain                               13,90         659,92          317,61
       .I                        III . Broken rice                                    30,24         164,79           79,39
       (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regula­
            tion No 551 /85.
        (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas depart­
            ment 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 11a of Regulation
            (EEC) No 14J8/76.