CELEX: 31992R0106
Language: en
Date: 1992-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 106/92 of 17 January 1992 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

18 . 1 . 92                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 12/5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 106/92
                                                         of 17 January 1992
                                       fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
                                                                     this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                No 1423/76 Q, or whether adjustments need to be made
Economic Community,                                                  by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regu­
                                                                     lation (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and
Portugal,                                                            Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
                                                                     grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                    quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)              each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
No 1806/89 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,            Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
                                                                     tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC)
                                                                     Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
                                                                     conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
No 81 /92 of 15 January 1992 laying down detailed rules
                                                                     by-products for the various stages of rice processing^8), as
for the application of Council Regulation (EEC)
No 3877/86 on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic             last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88, should be
Basmati variety (3), and in particular Article 8 thereof,            used where appropriate ;
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                 one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
difference 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)         Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
No 2149/91 (4);                                                       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 ^, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)               ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 (6), 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
on the Community market ; whereas the quality of 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 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                                limited period ;
O   OJ   No L 10, 16. 1 . 1992, p. 9 .
(4) OJ   No L 200, 23. 7. 1991 , p. 10.
O   OJ   No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .                              0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 .
(6) OJ   No L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .                               0 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 12 and 13          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
and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the              tion to each other at any given moment within a band
overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), as last                  of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 523/91 (2), the levy                    rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled and                 the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
wholly milled rice ;                                                   tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (8), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 2205/90 (9),
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
                                                                        cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;                      Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
                                                                   provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4), as                Annex hereto,
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 (5), defined a
special arrangement for the importation of certain quanti­
ties of Basmati rice into the Community ; whereas this
arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of that calculated          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
in accordance with Article 11 of Regulation (EEC)
No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may not be less
than the difference between the free-at-frontier price for                                     Article 1
Basmati rice and the threshold price for long-grain rice ;
                                                                   The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3491 /90 (6) and                Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 862/91 Q 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 20 January
prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled         1992.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 17 January 1992.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(')  OJ No  L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p. 85.
0    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 297, 29. 10. 1991 , p. 1 .
 (6) OJ No  L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 1 .                              0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
 0   OJ No  L 88, 9. 4. 1991 , p. 7.                                O OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9 .
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                                                                ANNEX
            to the Commission Regulation of 17 January 1992 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                              broken rice
                                                                                                                  (ECU / tonne)
                                                  Arrangement                ACP or OCT                   Third countries
                       CN code                in Regulation (EEC)               C)(2)(3)(4)            (except ACP or OCT)
                                                 No 3877/86 (<)                Bangladesh                       0
                     100610 21                                                   155,04                       317,28
                     1006 10 23                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 10 25                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 10 27                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 10 92                        —
                                                                                 155,04                       317,28
                     1006 10 94                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 10 96                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 10 98                      224,81                      146,27                       299,74
                     1006 20 11                        —
                                                                                 194,70                       396,60
                     1006 20 13                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 20 15                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 20 17                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 20 92                        —
                                                                                 194,70                       396,60
                     1006 20 94                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 20 96                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 20 98                      281,00                      183,73                       374,67
                     1006 30 21                        —
                                                                                 241,33                       506,51 0
                     1006 30 23                      446,53 0                    285,80                       595,37 0
                      1006 30 25                     446,53 0                    285,80                       595,37 0
                     1006 30 27                      446,53 0                    285,80                       595,37 0
                     1006 30 42                        —
                                                                                 241,33                       506,51 0
                      1006 30 44                     446,53 0                    285,80                       595,370
                     1006 30 46                      446,53 0                    285,80                       595,37 0
                     1006 30 48                      446,53 0                    285,80                       595,37 0
                     1006 30 61                        —
                                                                                 257,37                       539,44 0
                      1006 30 63                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 30 65                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 30 67                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 30 92                       —
                                                                                 257,37                       539,44 0
                      1006 30 94                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 30 96                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 30 98                     478,68 0                    306,77                       638,24 0
                      1006 40 00                       —
                                                                                  68,22                        142,44
            (') 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 .
            0 The levy on imports into Portugal is increased by the amount specified in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
                3808/90 .
            0 The levy on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati variety is applicable under the arrangements laid
                down in Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3130/91 .