CELEX: 31992R2531
Language: en
Date: 1992-09-01
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2531/92 of 31 August 1992 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

No L 254/24                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                    1 . 9. 92
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2531/92
                                                       of M August 1992
                     fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         the case of imports to be effected during the remaining
                                                                    months for which the import licence is valid, this price
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               must be the cif price for shipment during the month
Economic Community,                                                 preceding the month in which importation is expected to
                                                                    take place ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                made for shipment during a given month, this price
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   should be the price ruling for shipment during the last
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)             month in which an offer for forward delivery was made ;
No 674/92 (2), and in particular Article 13 (6) thereof,
                                                                    Whereas the premium shall be ECU 0 if the cif forward
                                                                    delivery price is equal to the cif price or lower by an
Whereas the premiums to be added to the import levies               amount not exceeding ECU 0,30 per tonne ;
fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must include a
premium for the current month and a premium for each                Whereas by virtue of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation (EEC)
of the following months until the expiry of the period of           No 1428/76 the premium may, however, be fixed at a
validity of the import licence ; whereas this period of vali­       higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
dity was laid down in Article 8 of Commission Regulation            certain specified limits ;
(EEC) No 891 /89 of 5 April 1989 on special detailed
rules for the application of the system of import and               Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
export licences for cereals and rice (3), as last amended by        should be calculated on the following basis :
Regulation (EEC) No 337/92 (4) ;
                                                                    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1428/76 (*) lays                     tion to each other at any given moment within a band
down rules for the advance fixing of levies on rice and                  of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on their central
broken rice ;                                                            rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                         the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
Whereas under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No                           tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
1428/76, where the cif price for husked rice, for milled                 tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (»),
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on which              — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif forward                    average of the ecu rates published in the Official
delivery price for the same product, the premium should                  Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
as a general rule be equal to the difference between these               a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
two prices ; whereas the cif price is that determined in                 cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
accordance with Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No
 1418/76 on the day on which the premiums are fixed ;               Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions that
whereas the detailed rules for determining cif prices were           the premiums should be as set out in the Annex hereto ;
laid down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71                 whereas the amount of the premiums should be altered
of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif           only if application of the abovementioned provisions
prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the correc­           entails a change of more than ECU 0,30,
tive amounts relating thereto (6), as last amended by Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1614/92 f) ; whereas the cif forward deli­
very price is also determined in accordance with Article
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 but on the basis of
offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price must be the
cif price for shipment during the month in which the                                           Article 1
import licence is issued in the case of imports to be
effected during that month ; whereas in the case of                 The premiums to be added to the import levies fixed in
imports to be effected during the month following the                advance in respect of rice and broken rice originating in
month in which the import licence is issued, this price              third countries shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
must be the cif price for shipment during the month in
which importation is expected to take place ; whereas in
                                                                                               Article 2
 ') OJ  No  L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 73, 19 . 3 . 1992, p. 7.                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
(3) OJ  No  L 94, 7. 4. 1989, p. 13 .                                1992.
O   OJ  No  L 36, 13 . 2. 1992, p. 15.
0   OJ  No  L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 30 .
(6) OJ  No  L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                            O OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
0   OJ  No  L 170, 25. 6. 1992, p. 15.                              O OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 31 August 1992.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                             Member of the Commission
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                                                   ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1992 fixing die premiums to be added to the
                                    import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                       (ECU / tonne)
                                          Current       1st period     2nd period    3rd period
                     CN code
                                            9               10             11            12
                    1006 10 21              0               0              0             __
                    1006 10 23              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 25              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 27              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 92              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 94              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 96              0               0              0             —
                    1006 10 98              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 11              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 13              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 15              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 17              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 92              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 94              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 96              0               0              0             —
                    1006 20 98              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 21              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 23              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 25              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 27              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 42              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 44              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 46              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 48              0                0              0            —
                    1006 30 61              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 63              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 65              0               0              0             —
                    1006 30 67              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 92              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 94              0                0             0             —
                    1006 30 96              0                0              0            —
                    1006 30 98              0                0              0            —
                    1006 40 00              0                0              0             0