CELEX: 31977R1420
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1420/77 of 29 June 1977 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

30 . 6. 77                               Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 160/25
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1420/77
                                                         of 29 June 1977
                                    fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the world
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              market relating, for each type of rice, to the products
Economic Community,                                                specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                    1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the conversion
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/
1418/76 of 21 June 1976, on the common organiza­                   67/ EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates,
tion of the market in rice (*), and in particular Article          the processing costs and the value of the by-products
11 (2) thereof,                                                    for the various stages of rice processing ^), as last
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                       amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 484/75 (9), should
Committee,                                                         be used where appropriate ;
Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76
provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice,                Whereas, when these conversions are being effected,
husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and              the Commission must take account of the fact that
broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice,                 certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­
wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal              tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the
to the difference between the threshold price and the              standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No
cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­            1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to
milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies            conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken
applicable to the corresponding husked rice and                    rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as
wholly milled rice ;                                               amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808/74 ; whereas
                                                                   no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for
Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly               husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice
milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1976/77
                                                                   taken     into  consideration    are lower   than   those
marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1 427/76 (2),               provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of
(EEC) No 1 778/76 (3) and (EEC) No 1922/76 (4);                    Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;
Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the
Commission must take account of the factors indi­
cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76                 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the
                                                                   Commission to take account of the fact that certain
and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 204/77 (6), and in                offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a
particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­                product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to
ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­             adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts
sentative of the real trend of the market, account                 fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the
being taken in particular of the need to prevent                    offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating
sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­                  to a product presented in bulk ;
bances on the Community market ; whereas the
quality of the goods offered must also be taken into               Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on
account, whether this quality corresponds to the                    the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made
standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No                       for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of
 1423/76 (7), or whether adjustments need to be made                the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­
by applying the corrective amounts provided for in                  port charges in relation to Rotterdam ;
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 of 26 July
 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices
and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective              Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of
amounts relating thereto ;                                          Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price
                                                                    may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery
Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained                 during the following month or may be retained unal­
and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and                  tered for a limited period ;
(•) OJ  No  L 166,  25. 6. 1976, p. 1 .
(2) OJ  No  L 166,  25. 6. 1976, p. 29 .                           Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the
(3) OJ  No  L 199 , 24. 7 . 1976, p. 7 .                            interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States
(<) OJ  No  L 210,  4. 8 . 1976, p. 9 .
0   OJ  No  L 168,  27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 .
(6) OJ  No  L 139,  7. 6. 1977, p. 30.                             (8) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(7) OJ  No  L 166,  25 . 6. 1976, p. 20.                           (») OJ No L 150, 11 . 6. 1975, p. 7.
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 or of the 'overseas countries and territories , the levy       Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
 relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC)            levies should be calculated on the following basis :
 No 706/76 ('), be reduced by a fixed amount and by             — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating               relation to each other, at any given moment,
 to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further              within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
 reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled               on their effective parity ;
 rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject1 to
 conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of          — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
 Council Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 of 30 March                     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
 1976 ;                                                             of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                    relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19                   in the previous subparagraph ;
July 1971 (2) altered the definitions given in Annex A
 to Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and incorporated in             Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­
 supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of              tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as
 the Common Customs Tariff ;                                    shown in the table annexed to this Regulation,
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­
 tion (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common
 Customs Tariff ;                                                                        Article 1
Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered            The import levies to be charged on the products listed
 in the intervening period to take account of variations        in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
 in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine         1418/76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table
 cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly       annexed to this Regulation .
 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 30 June
 force ;                                                         1977 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 29 June 1977.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
(») OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p . 5.
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                                                                        ANNEX
           to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1977 fixing the import levies on rice and broken
                                                                            rice
                                                                                                                                   (u.a. / tonne)
                   CCT
                                                                                                                 Third            ACP or
                 heading                             Description of goods                                      countries
                    No                                                                                                           OCT 00
            10.06                        Rice :
                                         A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                                 86.66             40.33
                                                  b) Long grain                                                103.24              48.62
                                             II . Husked rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                               108.32              51.16
                                                  b) Long grain                                                129.05              61.53
                                         B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                               159.74              69.97
                                                  b) Long grain                                                240.98             110.63
                                             II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grain                                               170.12              74.81
                                                  b) Long grain                                                258.33             118.92
                                         C. Broken rice :                                                        59.66             27.33
           (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 706/76.
           O 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'.