CELEX: 31990R2512
Language: en
Date: 1990-09-01
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2512/90 of 31 August 1990 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

1 , 9 . 90                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 237/ 11
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2512/90
                                                       of 31 August 1990
                                     fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the
                                                                   goods offered must also be taken into account, whether
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No
Economic Community,                                                1423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by
                                                                   applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and                 tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ;
Portugal,
                                                                   Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76               grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly
of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the                  milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of
market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            quotations or prices on the world market relating, for
No 1 806/89 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof,         each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                    tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission
883/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for             Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the
the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86             conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the
on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati              by-products for the various stages of rice processing (9), as
variety falling within CN codes 1006 10, 1006 20 and               last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88, should be
1006 30 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     used where appropriate ;
1546/87 (4), and in particular Article 8 thereof,
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 certain
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                  offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and              fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case,
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly          must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of
milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­       one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/
rence between the threshold price and the cif price ;              67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the
whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice,           prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled
                                                                   rice   taken  into   consideration   are  lower  than   those
the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to
the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;             provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­
                                                                   lation No 467/67/EEC ;        -
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1990/91             Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No                   Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers
2104/90 0 ;                                                        are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put
                                                                   up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the            applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­
Commission must take account of the factors indicated in           tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers
Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in                   for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ;
                                                                               I
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July
1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and          Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the
levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts
                                                                   basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other
relating thereto (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)          ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­
No 2325/88 (7), and in particular the most favourable              tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in
purchasing opportunities on the world market which are             relation to Rotterdam ;
sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market,
account being taken in particular of the need to prevent
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances            Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be
(■) OJ   No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .                              calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the
O   OJ   No L 177, 24. 6. 1989, p. 1 .                              following month or may be retained unaltered for a
(3) OJ   No L 80, 24. 3 . 1987, p. 20.                              limited period ;
(4) OJ   No L 144, 4. 6. 1987, p. 10.
0   OJ   No L 191 , 24. 7. 1990, p. 21
(6) OJ   No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28                              (8) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.
O   OJ   No L 202, 27. 7. 1988 , p. 41                              0 OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the                 not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier
interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and         price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­
of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating       grain rice ;
to them must be reduced by a fixed amount and by an
amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to               Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in
third countries ; whereas, pursuant to Articles 12 and 13          the intervening period to take account of variations in
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 715/90 of 5 March 1990              threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif
on the arrangements applicable to agricultural products            prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled
and certain goods resulting from the processing of agri­           rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­
cultural products originating in the ACP States or in the          tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an
overseas countries and territories (OCT) ('), the levy must        increase or a reduction of at least ECU 1,21 per tonne in
be further reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly           the amount of the levy in force ;
milled rice ;
                                                                   Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies
                                                                   should be calculated on the following basis :
Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession,          — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­
the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985
must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of                tion to each other at any given moment within a band
Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from                    of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central
Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable                 rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in
in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under               the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­
Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20                 tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (5), as last amended by Regula­
                                                                       tion (EEC) No 2205/90 («),
December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying
to trade in agricultural products between Spain and                — for the other currencies, an exchange rate based on an
Portugal (2), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                   average of the ecu rates published in the Official
3296/88 (3), the same arrangements are to be applied in                Journal of the European Communities, C series, over
the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied                   a period to be determined, multiplied by the coeffi­
pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy                   cient referred to in the preceding indent ;
should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid
down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into                Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned
account the situation with regard to market prices in              provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the
Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain          Annex hereto,
the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade
between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the
standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;                      The import levies to be charged on the products listed in
                                                                   Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (4)                    shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
defined a special arrangement for the importation of
certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ;                                       Article 2
whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of
that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may               1990.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 31 August 1990.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                         Member of the Commission
(') OJ No   L 84, 30. 3. 1990, p.  85.
(2) OJ No   L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7.
(3) OJ  No  L 293, 27. 10. 1988,  p. 7.                             0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .
(4) OJ No   L 361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 1 .                            fa OJ No L 201 , 31 . 7. 1990, p. 9.
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                                                                ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1990 fixing the import levies on rice and
                                                              broken rice
                                                                                                                 (ECU/tonne)
                                                               Arrangement            ACP or OCT
                                                                                                           Third countries
                    CN code                 Portugal        in Regulation (EEC)                         (except ACP or OCT)
                                                                No 3877/86               (1) (2) (3)              (3)
                  1006 10 21
                  1006 10 23
                                                          |                              151,74                310,69
                                               —
                                                                  236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 10 25                   —
                                                                  236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 10 27                   —
                                                                  236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 10 92                   —    ■               —
                                                                                         151,74                310,69
                  1006 10 94                   —
                                                                  236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 10 96                   —
                                                                  236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 10 98                                      236,13                 153,82                314,84
                  1006 20 11                   —                    —
                                                                                         190,58                388,36
                  1006 20 13                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                  1006 20 15                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                  1006 20 17                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                1 1006 20 92                   —                    —
                                                                                         190,58                388,36
                  1006 20 94                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                  1006 20 96                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                  1006 20 98                   —
                                                                  295,16                 193,17                393,55
                  1006 30 21                 13,05                  —
                                                                                         236,41                496,68
                  1006 30 23                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 25                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 27                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 42                 13,05                  —
                                                                                         236,41                496,68
                  1006 30 44                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 46                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 48                 12,97                449,66                 287,89                599,55
                  1006 30 61                 13,90                  —
                                                                                         252,13                528,97
                  1006 30 63                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 30 65                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 30 67                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 30 92                 13,90                  —
                                                                                         252,13                528,97
                  1006 30 94                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 30 96                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 30 98                 13,90                482,04                 309,01                642,72
                  1006 40 00                   0,51                 —
                                                                                           92,84               191,69
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 12 and 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 715/90.
           (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 715/90, the levies are not applied to products imported directly into the
               overseas department of Reunion of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the
               overseas countries and territories.
           (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation
               (EEC) No 1418/76.