CELEX: 31973R1209
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1209/73 of the Commission of 10 May 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 125/ 12                           Official Journal of the European Communities                           11 . 5 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1209/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 10 May 1973
                            fixing the premiums to be added to the levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    on which the premiums are fixed ; whereas the de­
 COMMUNITIES,                                                      tailed rules for determining cif prices were laid
                                                                   down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (8), as last
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 363/72 (9) ; where­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                as the cif forward delivery price must also be
 pean Economic Community ;                                         determined in accordance with Article 16 of Regula­
                                                                   tion No 359/67/EEC but on the basis of offers at
                                                                   North Sea ports ; whereas this price must be the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No
 359/67/EEC H of 25 July 1967 on the common or­
                                                                   cif price for shipment during the month in which
                                                                   the import licence is issued in the case of imports to
 ganization of the market in rice, as last amended by              be effected during that month ; whereas this price
 the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession            must be the cif price for shipment during the
 of new Member States to the European Economic                     month in which importation is expected to take
 Community and the European Atomic Energy Com­
                                                                   place in the case of imports to be effected during
 munity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and                the month following the month in which the import
 in particular Article 13 (6) thereof ;                            licence is issued ; whereas this price must be the
                                                                   cif price for shipment during the month preceding
                                                                   the month in which importation is expected to take
 Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      place in the case of imports to be effected during
 Committee ;
                                                                   the remaining months for which the import licence
                                                                   is valid ; whereas, if no offer for forward delivery is
 Whereas the premiums to be added to the import                    made for shipment during a given month, this price
 levies fixed in advance for rice and broken rice                  should be the price ruling for shipment during the
 must include a premium for the current month and                  last month in which an offer for forward delivery
 a premium for each of the following months until                  was made ;
 the expiry of the period of validity of the import                Whereas the premium is equal to 0 units of account
 licence ; whereas this period of validity was laid                if the cif price determined on the day on which
 down in Article 20 (2) of Commission Regulation                   the scale of the premiums is fixed is equal to the
 (EEC) No 2637/70 (4) of 23 December 1970, as last                 cif forward delivery price or exceeds that price by
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 128 /73 (5 ) ;                     not more than 0-025 unit of account per 100 kilo­
                                                                   grammes ;
 Whereas Council Regulation No 365/67/EEC (6) of
 25 July 1967, as last amended by Regulation (EEC)                 Whereas the premium may, however, be fixed at a
 No 2435/70 (7), lays down rules for the advance fix­              higher level in exceptional circumstances and within
 ing of levies on rice and broken rice ;                           certain specified limits ;
                                                                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
                                                                   levies should be calculated on the basis of an
 Whereas under the terms of Regulation No
 365/67/EEC, where the cif price for husked rice,                  exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
 for milled rice or for broken rice determined on the              which are floating or whose central rate differs from
 day on which the premiums are fixed is higher than                the official parity, on the effective rate or the
•the cif forward delivery price for the same prod­                 central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
 uct, the premium should as a general rule be equal                the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
 to the difference between these two prices ; whereas              on 13 February 1973 ;
 the cif price is that determined in accordance with
 Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC on the day                 Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
                                                                   sions that the premiums should be fixed as shown
                                                                   in the Table annexed to this Regulation ; whereas
                                                                   the amount of the premiums should be altered only
 (*) OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .                             if application of the abovementioned provisions
 (') OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14.                            entails a change of more than 0 025 unit of account;
 (*) OJ  No  L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 5 .
 (*) OJ  No  L 283, 29. 12. 1970, p. 15,
 (*) OJ  No  L 17, 20. 1 . 1973, p . 16.
 (•) OJ No 174. 31 . 7. 1967. D . 32.                              (8) OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
 r) OJ No L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p. 3 .                              ( 9) OJ No L 46, 22. 2. 1972, p. 9.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                                  a,re hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to
                                                                               this Regulation .
                             Article 1                                                                   Article 2
The premiums to be added to the import levies                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 May
fixed in advance in respect of rice and broken rice                            1973 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                  Done at Brussels, 10 May 1973 .
                                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                                            P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                     Member of the Commission
                                                                      ANNEX
                 to the Commission Regulation of 10 May 1973 fixing the premiums to be added to the
                                                        levies on rice and broken rice I1)
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               CCT                                                                              1st           2nd              3rd
              heading                   Description of goods                 Current          period         period .        period
                No                                                              5               6               7                8
         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
        C) The period of validity of the licence is limited in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 2196/71, as last amended by Regula­
           tion (EEC) No 538/73 .