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REGULATION (EEC) No 2365/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 31 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1555/71 (9), COMMUNITIES, or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Commission Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 lay­ pean Economic Community ; ing down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/ amounts relating thereto ; EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained new Member States to the European Economic Com­ and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and munity and the European Atomic Energy Commu­ long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­ nity, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in lated on the basis of quotations or prices on the particular Article 11 (2) thereof ; world market relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Com­ No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation, the con­ mittee ; version rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/67/EEC ( 10) of 21 August 1967 fixing the Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC conversion rates, the processing costs and the value provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, of the by-products for the various stages of rice husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and processing, as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No broken rice ; whereas , in the case of husked rice, 1499/72 ( n), should be used where appropriate ; wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the difference between the threshold price and the cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, semi-milled rice, the levy should be derived from the the Commission must take account of the fact that levies applicable to the corresponding husked rice certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­ and wholly milled rice ; tage of broken rice than that allowed for the stan­ dard quality fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC ; Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly 1973/74 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No milled rice taken into consideration are lower than 1962/73 (4 ) and No 2024/73 ( 5 ) ; those provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC ; Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission must take account of the factors indicated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/ Whereas Regulation (EEC ) No 1613 /71 requires the EEC and in Regulation ( EEC ) No 1613 /71 ( 6 ), as last Commission to take account of the fact that certain amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1057/73 (7 ), and offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a in particular the most favourable purchasing oppor­ product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to ad­ tunities on the world market which are sufficiently just such offers by applying the rates or amounts representative of the real trend of the market, fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make account being taken in particular of the need to pre­ the offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or re­ vent sudden variations likely to cause abnormal lating to a product presented in bulk ; disturbances on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must also be taken into account, whether this quality corresponds to the Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on standard quality fixed in Regulation 362/67/EEC (8), the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of the corrections necessitated by the difference in (*) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . H OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 . transport charges in relation to Rotterdam ; (3) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . (4) OJ No L 201 , 21 . 7. 1973 , p. 1 . (5) OJ No L 206, 27. 7. 1973 , p . 30 . (•) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . (9) O ] No L 164, 22 . 7. 1971 , p. 11 . ( 7) OJ No L 105, 20 . 4. 1973 , p . 10 . ( 10 ) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (8) OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 27. (») OJ No L 158 , 14. 7. 1972, p . 22.

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Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3 ) ations in threshold prices or in the factors used to de­ of Regulation (EEC) No 1613 /71 obtain, the cif termine cif prices ; whereas, in the case* of husked price may be calculated on the basis of offers for rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levies delivery during the following month or may be are altered only if variations in the factors used to retained unaltered for a limited period ; calculate the levy entails an increase or a reduction of at least 0-10 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the in the amount of the levy in force ; interests of the Associated African States and Mad­ agascar and of the Overseas Countries and Terri­ Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, tories, the levy relating to them must, pursuant to levies should be calculated on the following basis : Regulation (EEC) No 540/70 ( 1 ), be reduced by a — in the case of currencies which are maintained in fixed amount and by an amount corresponding to relation to each other, at any given moment, 45 °/o of the levy relating to third countries ; whereas within a band of 2-25 %>, a rate of exchange based the levy must be further reduced in the case of semi­ on their effective parity ; milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas, under Ar­ — for other currencies an exchange rate based on ticle 2 of Regulation (EEC ) No 540/70, the charging the arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of of this levy is subject to conditions, some of which each of these currencies recorded for a given are set out in Commission Regulation (EEC ) No 430/ period, in relation to the Community currencies 72 (2) of 29 February 1972 on implementing meas­ referred to in the previous subparagraph ; ures concerning imports of rice and broken rice originating in the Associated African States and Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­ Madagascar or in the Overseas Countries and Terri­ tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as tories ; shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation ;

Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1553 /71 (3) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : of 19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in An­ nex A of Regulation 359/67/EEC and incorporated Article 1 in supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the Common Customs Tariff ; The import levies to be charged on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ 359/67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table tion No 359/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for annexed to this Regulation. in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; Article 2

Whereas lfevies are fixed once a week and are altered This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September in the intervening period to take account of vari­ 1973 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels , 31 August 1973 . For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(!) OJ No L 68, 25 . 3 . 1970, p . 1 . (») OJ No L 52, 1 . 3 . 1972, p . 41 . (s) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7. 1971 , p. 5 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

(u.a.flOO kg/

CCT Third AASM / heading Description of goods countries OCT (') (') No

1006 Rice : ' A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :

I. Paddy rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0 II . Husked rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0 B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :

I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0 II . Wholly milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0

C. Broken rice 0 0

{') Regulation (EEC) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departmenti of products originating in the AASM and OCT . W Thi « levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 540/70 .