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REGULATION ( EEC) No 2237/74 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 August 1974 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 long-grained wholly milled rice, the cif price is calcu­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 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 No 359/ specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 67/EEC ( 1 ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation , the conversion tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/ tion (EEC) No 11 29/74 (2), and in particular Article 11 67/EEC (9) of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion (2) thereof ; rates, the processing costs and the value of the by-products for the various stages of rice processing, Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808 /74 (10), Committee ; should be used where appropriate ; Whereas Article 11 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC 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 No 362/67/EEC milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to conform applicable to the corresponding husked rice and with the value of one kilogramme of broken rice as wholly milled rice ; fixed by Regulation No 467/67/ EEC, as amended by Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74, whereas no adjustment milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/75 is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1718/74 (3) semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­ and (EEC) No 1935/74 (4) ; tion are lower than those provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/ Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the 67/ EEC ; Commission must take account of the factors indi­ cated in Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1057/73 (6), and in particular Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the Commission to take account of the fact that certain the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the world market which are sufficiently representative of offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a the real trend of the market, account being taken in product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to particular of the need to prevent sudden variations adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­ fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating must also be taken into account, whether this quality to a product presented in bulk ; corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regula­ tion No 362/67/EEC (7), as last amended by Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1555/71 (8), or whether adjustments Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on need to be made by applying the corrective amounts the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­ for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice port charges in relation to Rotterdam ; and the corrective amounts relating thereto ;

(») OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5. 1974, p. 20. Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of (3) OJ No L 181 , 4. 7. 1974, p. 7. Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price (4) OJ No L 203 , 25. 7. 1974, p. 22. may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery (5) OJ No L 168 , 27 . 7. 1971 , p. 28 . (b) OJ No L 105, 20 . 4. 1973, p. 10 . (7) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 27. H OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 11 . » 0) OJ No L 188 , 12 . 7 . 1974, p. 34.

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during the following month or may be retained unal­ if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy tered for a limited period ; entail an increase or a reduction of at least 0-10 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes in the amount of the Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the levy in force ; interests of the Associated African States and Madagascar 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 ( !), be reduced by a fixed — in the case of currencies which are maintained in amount and by an amount corresponding to 45 % of relation to each other, at any given moment, the levy relating to third countries ; whereas the levy within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based must be further reduced in the case of semi-milled on their effective parity ; and wholly milled rice ; whereas, under Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70, the charging of this levy — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the is subject to conditions, some of which are set out in arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Commission Regulation (EEC) No 430/72 (2) of 29 of these currencies recorded for a given period, in February 1972 on implementing measures concerning relation to the Community currencies referred to imports of rice and broken rice originating in the in the previous subparagraph ; Associated African States and Madagascar or in the Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­ Overseas Countries and Territories ; tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 (3) of shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation ; 19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in Annex A of Regulation ' No 359/67/EEC and incorporated in HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the Common Customs Tariff ; Article 1 Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ tion No 359/67/EEC, the nomenclature provided for The import levies to be charged on the products listed in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/ Customs Tariff ; 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation . Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in the intervening period to take account of variations Article 2 in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels, 29 August 1974.

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(>) OJ No L 68 , 25 . 3 . 1970, p. 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 52, 1 . 3 . 1972, p. 41 . (3 ) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7. 1971 , p. 5.

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 August 1974 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice (u.a./lOO kit)

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

in.ne» 0.06 Rice : Λ . 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 li . Seini-milled or wholly milled rice :

I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0 H. 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. (*) This levy ii applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70.