CELEX: 31988R2701
Language: en
Date: 1988-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2701/88 of 31 August 1988 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice

1 . 9 . 88                               Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 241 /33
                                        COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2701/88
                                                          of 31 August 1988
                                      fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         the export refund on rice and broken rice is being calcu­
                                                                      lated :
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
  Economic Community, ■
                                                                       whereas the world market situation or the specific requi­
                                                                      rements of certain markets may make it necessary to vary
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                  the refund for certain products according to destination ;
  Portugal,
                                                                      Whereas a separate refund should be fixed for packaged
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                long grain rice to accommodate current demand for the
  of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                   product on certain markets ;
  market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
  No 2229/88 (2), and in particular the first sentence of the
 fourth subparagraph of Article 17 (2) thereof,                      Whereas the refund must be fixed at least once a month ;
                                                                     whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
  Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,
                                                                     Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
 Whereas Article 17 of Regulation          (EEC) No 1418/76          refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
 provides that the difference between      quotations or prices
 on the world market for the products      listed in Article 1 of    — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
 that Regulation and prices for those      products within the            tion to each other at any given moment within a band
 Community may be covered by an            export refund ;                of 2,25 %, a rate of exchange based on their central
                                                                          rate, multiplied by,the corrective factor provided for in
                                                                          the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­
 Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EEC) No                         tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­
 1431 /76 of 21 June 1976 laying down general rules for                   tion (EEC) No 1 636/87 (6) ;
 granting export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the
 amount of such refunds (3), provides that when refunds are          — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 being fixed account must be taken of the existing situa­                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
 tion and the future trend with regard to prices and availa­              these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­
 bilities of rice and broken rice on the Community market                 tion to the Community currencies referred to in the
 on the one hand and prices for rice and broken rice on                   previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ;
 the world market on the other ; whereas the same Article
 provides that it is also important to ensure equilibrium
 and the natural development of prices and trade on the              Whereas it follows from applying these rules and criteria
 rice market and, furthermore, to take into account the              to the present situation on the market in rice and in
 economic aspect of the proposed exports and the need to             particular to quotations or. prices for rice and broken rice
 avoid disturbances of the Community market ;                       within the Community and on the world market, that the
                                                                     refund should be fixed as set out in the Annex hereto :
Whereas to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1361 /76 (4)
lays down the maximum percentage of broken rice                     Whereas, pursuant to Article 275 of the Act of Accession
allowed in rice for which an export refund is fixed and             of Spain and Portugal, refunds may be granted in the case
specifies the percentage by which that refund is to be              of exports to Portugal ; whereas, in the light of the situa­
reduced where the proportion of broken rice in the rice             tion and the level of prices no refund should be fixed in
exported exceeds that maximum ;
                                                                    the case of exports to Portugal ;
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1431 /76
defines the specific criteria to be taken into account when         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
                                                                    in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                    Committee for Cereals,
(')  OJ   No L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.
0    OJ   No L  197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 30.
0    OJ   No L  166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 36.                            0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4)  OJ   No L  154, 15. 6. 1976, p. 11 .                           (6) OJ No L 153, 13. 6. 1987, p. 1 .
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                  natural state, shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. The
                                                               refund on export to Portugal has not been fixed.
                         Article 1        '   *
                                                                                          Article 2
The export refunds on the products listed in Article 1 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 with the exception of those        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
listed in paragraph 1 (c) of that Article, exported in the     1988 .
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                 Done at Brussels, 31 August 1988 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                             Vice-President
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                                                                   ANNEX
             to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1988 fixing the export refunds on rice and
                                                                broken rice
                                                                                                                      (ECU/ tonne)
                             Product code                                                                   Amount
                                                                 Destination (')                           of refund
                          1006 20 10 000             —
                          1006 20 90 000                               01                                    194,00               '
           l                                                           02                                      —
                          1006 30 11 000                              —                                        —
                          1006 30 19 000                              —
                                                                                                               —
                          1006 30 91 000                              —                                        —
                          1006 30 99 100                              01                                    243,00
           I                                                          03                                    272,00
                                                                      05                                    272,00
                                                                      06                                    277,00
           I                                                          07                                    277,00
           l                                                          08                                    272,00
                                                                      09                                    272,00
           l                                                           10                                   277,00
                                                                       11                                   277,00
                                                                       12                                   277,00
                                                                       13                                   243,00
           I                                                           14                                   277,00
                          1006 30 99 900                              01                                    243,00
                                                                       13                                   243,00
                          1006 40 00 000                              —
                                                                                                               —
             (') The destinations are identified as follows :
                 01 Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the communes of Livigno and Campione d'ltalia
                 02 Third countries other than Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and the communes of Livigno and Campione
                     d'ltalie
                 03 Zone I
                 04 Third countries other than Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the communes of Livigno and Campione
                     d'ltalie and countries of Zone I
                 05 Zone II b)
                 06 Zone IV a)
                 07 Zone IV b)
                 08 Zone VI
                 09 Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla
                 10 Zone V a)
                 11 Zone VII c)
                 12 Canada
                 13 Destinations mentioned in Article 34 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/87 (OJ No L 351 , 14. 12.
                     1987, p. 1 )
                 14 Zone VIII, except Surinam, Guyana and Madagascar.
            (2) The amount is applicable to medium-grain and long-grain rice, as defined in paragraph 2 of Annex A of Regula­
                 tion (EEC) No 1418/76, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3877/87 (OJ No L 365, 24. 12. 1987).
             NB : The zones are those defined in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 1 124/77 (OJ No L 134, 28. 5. 1977), as last
                    amended by Regulation (EEC) No 296/88 (OJ No L 30, 2. 2. 1988).
                    The export refunds are to be converted into national currencies using the specific agricultural conversion rates
                    fixed in amended Regulation (EEC) No 3294/86 (OJ No L 304, 30. 10. 1986).
                    The product codes and the footnotes are defined in Regulation (EEC) No 3846/87 as amended.