CELEX: 31974R3076
Language: en
Date: 1974-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 3076/74 of the Commission of 5 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice

6 . 12 . 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 326 / 19
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 3076/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 5 December 1974
                                                  fixing the export levies on rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       of rice on the Community market on the one hand
COMMUNITIES,                                                         and prices for rice and products processed from it on
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                the world market on the other ; whereas the same
Economic Community ;                                                 Article provides that it is also important to ensure
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                          equilibrium and the natural development of prices
67/ EEC ('), of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                 and trade on rice markets and furthermore , to take
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­               into account the economic aspect of the proposed
tion (EEC) No 1 1 29/74 (2) ;                                        exports and the need to avoid disturbances on the
                                                                     Community market ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2737/73 (3 ) of 8 October 1973 laying down general                   Whereas for the products listed in Article 1 (c) of
rules to be applied in the event of the rice market                  Regulation No 359/67/ EEC the specific factors set out
being disturbed, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ;           in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 must
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                         also be taken into account ;
Committee ;
Whereas Article 21 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC                      Whereas the export levy may be varied if the world
provides that the necessary measures may be taken if                 market situation or the specific requirements of
the cif price of one or more products is appreciably                 certain markets make this necessary ;
higher than the threshold price and if that situation is             Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the
likely to continue thereby disturbing or threatening to              following should be used to calculate the levies :
disturb the Community market ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 specifies that                   — for currencies the exchange rates for which are
the cif price may be regarded as appreciably higher                        kept at any given moment within a band of
than the threshold price when it exceeds it by at least                    2-2.5 % , a conversion rate based on their actual
2 % ; whereas this excess may be regarded as being                         parity ;
likely to continue where an imbalance between supply                 — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the
and demand is established and where this imbalance                         arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each
is likely to persist having regard to foreseeable produc­                  of these currencies against the Community curren­
tion and market price trends ;                                             cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a
Whereas the high level of prices in international trade                    specified period ;
could impede importation of rice into the Commu­
nity or provoke exportation from the Community ;                     Whereas it follows from applying the rules outlined
Whereas the situation described above can be said to                 above to the present situation on the market in rice,
exist at the present time ; whereas to ensure supplies               and in particular to quotations or prices for these
in the Community an export levy should be intro­                     products within the Community and on the world
duced for this product ;                                             market, that the export levies should be fixed as
                                                                     shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Whereas in view of the relationship between the rice
and products processed from it and given the market                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
situation for these products, an export levy must also               are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
be fixed for all products processed from rice ;                       ment Committee for Cereals .
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/ 75
 marketing year by Regulations ( EEC) No 171 8 /74 (4 )               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 and (EEC) No 1935/74 (5 ), as amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 2518 /74(0);                                                                          Article 1
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2737 / 73
 specifies that when the export levy is being tixed                  The export levy referred to in the first indent of
 account must be taken of the existing situation and                  Article 2(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2737/73 is
 the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities            hereby fixed as shown in the Annex for the products
                                                                      listed therein .
 (')  OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 1 28 , 10 . 5 . 1974 , p. 20 .                                                   Article 2
 (3 ) OJ No L 282, 9 . 10 . 1973 , p. 13 .
 (4 ) OJ No L 181 , 4 . 7 . 1974, p. 7 .
 (5 ) OJ No L 203 , 25 . 7 . 1974, p. 22 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 December
 (6)  OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 .                             1 974 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 5 December 1974.
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
                                                                ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 5 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice
                CCT heading No                                  Description of goods                             u.a./100 kg
           10.06 Ala)                    Round grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified
                                         seeds («)                                                                 12'000
           10.06 A lb)                   Long grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified
                                         seeds (*)                                                                   6-000
            10.06 A II a)                Round grained husked rice                                                  12-000
           10.06 A II b)                 Long grained husked rice                                                    6-000
            10.06 B I a)                 Round grained semi-milled rice                                      >      12-000
            10.06 Bib)                   Long grained semi-milled rice                                               5-000
            10.06 B II a)                Round grained wholly -milled rice                                   '      12-000
            10.06 B II b)                Long grained wholly-milled rice                                             5-000
            10.06 C                    1 Broken rice                                                          !     12-000
            11.01 F                      Rice flour                                                           '       —
            11.02 A VI                   Rice groats and meal                                                 |     12*000
            11.02 E II e) 1              Flaked rice                                                          !     12-000
            11.02 F VI                   Pellets of rice                                                       j    12-000
            (') Officially certified seeds are undersrood to be those seeds contained in the packages officially sealed and
                officially labelled as 'basic seed", 'certified    ton generation*, certified seed, second generation' confor­
                ming to the provisions of the Council Dirertive of 34 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (OJ No
                1Z5, 11 . 7. 1966, p. 2309/66) and «f iht Council Decision of 2.6 March 197j on the equivalence of need
                produced in Denmark, Ireland and she limited Kingdom {Oj No L 106, 20. 4. 1973, p. 12).