CELEX: 31977R1953
Language: en
Date: 1977-09-01 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1953/77 of 31 August 1977 fixing the import  levies on rice and broken rice

1 . 9 . 77                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 223 / 5
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1953/77
                                                          of 31 August 1977
                                        fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained
 COMMUNITIES,                                                           and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
                                                                        lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
  Economic Community,
                                                                        market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
  1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­                       1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the conversion
 tion of the market in rice ('), as amended by Regula­                  rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
 tion (EEC) No 1158/77 (2), and in particular Article 11               67/ EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
 (2) thereof,                                                          the processing costs and the value of the by-products
                                                                       for the various stages of rice processing ^), as last
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 572/77 ( 10), should
 Committee,
                                                                       be used where appropriate ;
 Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,
 husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and                 Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
 broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                    the Commission must take account of the fact that
 wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal                 certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
 to the difference between the threshold price and the                 tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
 cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­              standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
 milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies                1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to
 applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                       conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken
 wholly milled rice ;                                                  rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as
                                                                       amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas
 Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly                  no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
 milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1977/78
                                                                       husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
 marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1 1 60/77 (3),                 taken    into   consideration   are    lower than   those
(EEC) No 1 639/77 (4) and (EEC) No 1832/77(5);                         provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the                Regulation No 467/67/ EEC ;
 Commission must take account of the factors indi­
 cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76
 and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (6), as last                       Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 204/77 (7), and in                    Commission to take account of the fact that certain
 particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­                  offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
 ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­                product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
sentative of the real trend of the market, account                     adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
being taken in particular of the need to prevent                       fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­                     offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
bances on the Community market ; whereas the                           to a product presented in bulk ;
quality of the goods offered must also be taken into
account, whether this quality corresponds to the
standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                         Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
 1 423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made                  the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                     for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July                      the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices                 port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective
amounts relating thereto ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
(')   OJ  No L 166,  25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                              Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
(2)   OJ  No L 136,  2. 6. 1977, p. 13 .                              may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
(3 )  OJ  No L 136,  2. 6 . 1977, p. 16 .                             during the following month or may be retained unal­
(«)   OJ  No L 183 , 22 . 7 . 19 77, p . 4.                           tered for a limited period ;
(5)  OJ   No L 202,  9 . 8 . 1977, p . 14 .
(6)  OJ   No L 168 , 22 . 7. 1971 , p . 28 .
O    OJ   No L 139 , 7 . 6 . 19 77, p. 30 .                           H OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(8)  OJ   No L 166,  25 . 6. 1976, p . 20 .                           ( ,0) OJ No L 174, 14. 7. 1977, p. 26 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the              Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States          levies should be calculated on the following basis :
or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy
                                                                — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)
No 706/76 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     relation to each other at any given moment within
328/77 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an                   a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to                 their effective parity ;
third countries ; whereas the levy must be further              — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled                 arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to               of these currencies recorded for a given period in
conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of                relation to the Community currencies referred to
Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                       in the previous subparagraph ;
 1976 ;
                                                                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19                tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
July 1971 (3) altered the definitions given in Annex A          shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
to Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 and incorporated in
supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of
the Common Customs Tariff ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided
for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common                                      Article 1
Customs Tariff ;
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered
                                                                The import levies to be charged on the products listed
                                                                 in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
in the intervening period to take account of variations          1418/76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine          annexed to this Regulation .
cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only
if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy                                   Article 2
entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of
account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
force ;                                                          1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 August 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                               Vice-President
O OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 46, 18 . 2. 1977, p . 1 .
P) OJ No L 164, 22. 7 . 1971 , p. 5 .
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                                                                        ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1977 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                                      broken nee
                                                                                                                                   (u.a. / tonne)
                   CCT
                                                                                                                 Third            ACP or
                  heading                            Description of goods                                      countries
                    No                                                                                                           OCT C ) (2)
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                 67-36             30-68
                                                  b) Long grain                                                  92-13             43-07
                                             II . Husked rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                 84-20             39-10
                                                  b) Long grain                                                 115-16             54-58
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                146-90             63-55
                                                  b) Long grain                                                221-41            100-84
                                             II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                156-45             67-98
                                                  b) Long grain                                                237-35            108-43
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                        69-84             32-42
           (') 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'.