CELEX: 31977R1435
Language: en
Date: 1977-07-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1435/77 of 30 June 1977 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 7. 77                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 161 /7
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1435/77
                                                            of 30 June 1977
                 fixing the premiums to be added to the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         with Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 but
COMMUNITIES,                                                           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 import licence is issued in the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                  case of imports to be effected during that month ;
Economic Community,                                                   whereas this price must be the cif price for shipment
                                                                       during the month in which importation is expected to
                                                                       take place in the case of imports to be effected during
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                           the month following the month in which the import
 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                       licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
tion of the market in rice ('), and in particular Article              price for shipment during the month preceding the
 13 (6) thereof,                                                       month in which importation is expected to take place
                                                                       in the ease of imports to be effected during the
                                                                       remaining months for which the import licence is
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
Committee,                                                             for shipment during a given month, this price should
                                                                      be the price ruling for shipment during the last
                                                                       month in which an offer for forward delivery was
Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                         made ;
levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice must
include a premium for the current month and a
premium for each of the following months until the                    Whereas the premium shall be 0 unit of account if
expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;              the cif forward delivery price is equal to the cif price
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                      or lower by an amount not exceeding 0-25 unit of
Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                           account per tonne ;
2042/75 of 25 July 1975 on special detailed rules for
the application of the system of import and export
licences for cereals and rice (2), as amended by Regula­
                                                                      Whereas by virtue of Articles 6 and 7 of Regulation
tion (EEC) No 2088 /76 (3) ;
                                                                      (EEC) No 1428/76 the premium may, however, be
                                                                      fixed at a higher level in exceptional circumstances
                                                                      and within certain specified limits ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1428/76 of 21
June 1976 (4) lays down rules for the advance fixing of
levies on rice and broken rice ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas under the terms of Regulation (EEC) No
1428/76, where the cif price for husked rice, for                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
milled rice or for broken rice determined on the day                       relation to each other, at any given moment,
on which the premiums are fixed is higher than the                         within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
cif forward delivery price for the same product, the                       on their effective parity ;
premium should as a general rule be equal to the
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif
price is that determined in accordance with Article 16                — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 on the day on which                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
the premiums are fixed ; whereas the detailed rules for                    of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                        relation to the Community currencies referred to
(EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last amended by Regulation                        in the previous subparagraph ;
(EEC) No 1 204/77 (6) ; whereas the cif forward
delivery price must also be determined in accordance
                                                                      Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
(')  OJ  No L 166,  25 . 6 . 1976, p . 1 .                            that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
(2)  OJ  No L 213,  1 1 . 8 . 1975, p . 5 .                           table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the amount
(J ) OJ  No L 234,  25 . 8 . 1976, p . 9 .
(4 ) OJ  No L 166,  25 . 6 . 1976 , p . 30 .                          of the premiums should be altered only if application
(5 ) OJ No  L 168 , 27 . 7. 1971 , p . 28 .                           of the abovementioned provisions entails a change of
(')  OJ No  L 139 , 7 . 6 . 1977, p . 30 .                            more than 0*25 unit of account,
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                      hereby fixed as shown in the table annexed to this
                                                                   Regulation .
                        Article 1
                                                                                            Article 2
The premiums to be added to the import levies fixed
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1977.
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 30 June 1977.
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
                                                              ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 30 June 1977 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                          import levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                       (u.a. / tonne)
                  CCT                                               Current     1st period 2nd period 3rd period
                heading                Description of goods
                   No                                                  7             8         9           10
            10.06             Ricc :
                              A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                   I. Paddy rice :
                                       a) Round grain                  0            0          0          —
                                       b) Long grain                   0            0          0          —
                                  II . Husked rice :
                                       a) Round grain                  0            0          0          —
                                       b) Long grain                   0            0          0             -
                               B. Semi-milled         or    wholly
                                  milled rice :
                                   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