CELEX: 31979R1916
Language: en
Date: 1979-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1916/79 of 31 August 1979 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 9 . 79                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 222/5
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1916/79
                                                      of 31 August 1979
                                   fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                      basis of quotations or prices on the world market
                                                                  relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
Economic Community,                                               whereas, for this calculation, the conversion rates
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                   67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
tion of the market in rice (!), as last amended by Regu­          the processing costs and the value of the by-products
lation (EEC) No 1 552/79 (2), and in particular Article           for the various stages of rice processing (7), as last
11 (2) thereof,                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1771 /79 (8), should
                                                                  be 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
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,               certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and             tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                 standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal              1423/76 and, in that case, must adjust the offers so as
to the difference between the threshold price and the             to conform with the value of one kilogram of broken
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­           rice fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as amended
milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies           by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808/74 ; whereas no adjust­
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                    ment is made, however, if the prices for husked rice
wholly milled rice ;                                               and semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into
                                                                   consideration are lower than those provided for in the
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly               last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1979/80             67/EEC ;
marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 774/79 (3) ;
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the           Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
Commission must take account of the factors indi­                  Commission to take account of the fact that certain
cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
and in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of                   product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif             adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the                  fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
corrective amounts relating thereto (4), as last amended           offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
by Regulation (EEC) No 1776/79 (5), and in particular              to a product presented in bulk ;
the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the
world market which are sufficiently representative of              Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on
the real trend of the market, account being taken in               the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
particular of the need to prevent sudden variations                for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­                the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered             port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
must also be taken into account, whether this quality
as fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (6), or                    Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3)
whether adjustments need to be made by applying the                of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
corrective amounts provided for in Regulation (EEC)                may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
 No 1613/71 ;
                                                                   during the following month or may be retained unal­
Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and               tered for a limited period ;
long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain
                                                                   Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
 1) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                               interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States
 2) OJ   No L 188, 26.  7. 1979,  p. 9.                             and of the overseas countries and territories, the levy
 3) OJ   No L 203, 11 . 8. 1979,  p. 11 .
 4) OJ   No L 168, 27.  7. 1971 , p. 28 .
 5) OJ   No L 203, 11 . 8. 1979,  p. 15.                           (7) OJ No 204, 24. 8. 1967, p. 1 .
 6) OJ   No L 166, 25.  6. 1976,  p. 20.                           (») OJ No L 203, 11 . 8 . 1979, p. 6.
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 relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)           — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 No 706/76 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 relation to each other at any given moment within
 No 1 198/78 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by               a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on
 an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating               their effective parity ;
 to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further
 reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to             arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of              of these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
 Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 ;
                                                                    in the previous indent ;
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19
July 1971 amending Regulation No 359/67/EEC on                 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29
 the common organization of the market in rice (3)             March 1979 (4) laid down the coefficient for
 altered the definitions given in Annex A to Regula­           expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in
 tion (EEC) No 1418/76 and incorporated in Supple­             ECU ;
 mentary Notes 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the                   Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
 Common Customs Tariff ;                                       tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as set
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­        out in the Annex hereto,
tion (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
 Customs Tariff ;                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
                                                                                        Article 1
in the intervening period to take account of variations
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine        The import levies to be charged on the products listed
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly       in Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only       1418/76 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy
entail an increase or a reduction of at least 1-21 ECU
per tonne in the amount of the levy in force ;                                          Article 2
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
levies should be calculated on the following basis :           1979 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1979.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
(») OJ No L 85, 31 . 3. 1976, p. 2.
(*) OJ No L 147, 3. 6. 1978, p. 1 .
 3) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5.                           (4) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .
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                                                                         ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1979 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken rice
                                                                                                                                  (ECU / tonne)
                   CCT
                                                                                                                  Third           ACP or
                  heading                                           Description
                    No                                                                                         countries (3)     OCT (")(')(')
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                  71-88            32.31
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 101.45             47.10
           \                                 II . Husked rice :                                           iii
           I                                      a) Round grain                                                  89.85            41.30
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 126.81             59.78
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
           I                                  I. Semi-milled rice :                                                            \
           I                                      a) Round grain                                                171.67             73-87
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 274.97            125-56
                                             II. Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                182.83             79-03
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 294-77            135.00
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                         62-65            28-31
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 706/76.
           (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 706/76, the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of
               products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.
           (5) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.