CELEX: 31973R2965
Language: en
Date: 1973-11-01
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2965/73 of the Commission of 31 October 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 11 . 73                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 303 / 15
                               REGULATION ( EEC) No 2965 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 31 October 1973
                      fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC but on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                         basis of offers at North Sea ports ; whereas this price
                                                                      must be the cif price for shipment during the month
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                in which the import licence is issued in the case of
Economic Community ;                                                  imports to be effected during that month ; whereas
                                                                      this price must be the cif price for shipment during
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                           the month in which importation is expected to take
67/ EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                   place in the case of imports to be effected during the
tion of the market in- rice, as last amended by ' the                 month following the month in which the import
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                 licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the cif
new Member States to the. European Economic                           price for shipment during the month preceding the
Community and the European Atomi.c Energy                             month in which importation is expected to take place
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                     in the case of imports to be effected during the
and in particular Article 13 (6) thereof ;                            remaining months for which the import licence is
                                                                     valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is made
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          for shipment during a given month , this price should
Committee ;                                                           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 is equal to 0 units of account if
expiry of the period of validity of the import licence ;              the cif price determined on the day on which the
whereas this period of validity was laid down in                      scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the cif
Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation ( EEC) No                     forward delivery price or exceeds that price by not
2637/70 (4 ) of 23 December 1970 , as last amended by                 more than 0025 units of account per 100 kilo­
Regulation ( EEC) No 1 28 /73 (5 ) ;                                 grammes ;
Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/ EEC (6) of 25
July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fixing of                higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
levies on rice and broken rice ;                                     certain specified limits ;
Whereas under the terms of Regulation No 365/
67/ EEC, where the cif price for husked rice for milled              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
rice or for broken rice determined on the day on                      levies should be calculated on the following basis :
which the premiums are fixed is higher than the cif
forward delivery price for the same product, the                     — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
premium should as a general rule be equal to the                          relation to each other, at any given moment,
difference between these two prices ; whereas the cif                     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
price is that determined in accordance with Article 16                    on their effective parity ;
of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC ' on the day on which
the premiums are fixed.; whereas the detailed rules for              — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
determining cif prices were laid down in Regulation                       arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
(EEC) No 1613/71 (s), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                          of these currencies recorded for a given period , in
( EEC) No 363/ 72 ('') ; whereas the cif forward delivery                 relation to the Community currencies referred to
price must also be determined in accordance with                          in the previous subparagraph ;
(') 0 | No 174 , 31 . 7 . 1967, p . I.
(-) O") No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1472, p. 14.
(•') OJ   No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 .                           Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions
(4 ) OJ   No L 2X3 , 29 . 12 . 1970 , p . 15 .                       that the premiums should be fixed as shown in the
(s ) 0|   No L 17, 20 . I. 1973 . p . 16 .                           Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas the
(o)  OJ   No 174 , 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 32 .                            amount of the premiums should be altered only if
I7) OJ No L 262, 3. 12. 1970, p. 3.
(s ) O ) No L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p . 28 .                         application of the abovementioned provisions entails a
(2) O'l No L 46, 22 . 2. 1972, p. 9.                                 change of more than 0-025 unit of accounts
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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                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
in advance in respect of rice and broken rice are                   1 973 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 October 1973 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 31 October 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                 levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                           (u.a.HOO kg)
           CCT                                                     Current           1st        2nd           3rd
          heading                Description of goods                              period      period       period '
            No                                                        11             12           1             2
      10.06            Rice :
                       A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                           I. Paddy rice :
                               a) Round grained                       0               0          0             —
                               b) Long grained                        0               0          0              0
                          II . Husked rice :
                               a) Round grained                       0              0           0             —
                               b) Long grained                        0              0           0              0
                       B. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                          rice :
                           I. Semi-milled rice :
                               a) Round grained                       0              0           0             —
                               b) Long grained                        0              0           0              0
                          II. Wholly milled rice :
                               a) Round grained                       0              0           0             —
                               b) Long grained                        0              0           0             0
                       C. Broken rice :                               0              0           0             0