31974R3201

No L 341 / 28 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 12 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3201 / 74 OF THE COMMISSION of 19 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of rice on the Community market on the one hand COMMUNITIES , and prices for rice and products processed from it on Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European the world market on the other ; whereas the same Economic Community ; Article provides that it is also important to ensure Having regard to Council Regulation No 359 / equilibrium and the natural development of prices and trade on rice markets and furthermore, to take 67/ EEC ('), of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by Regula­ into account the economic aspect of the proposed tion ( EEC) No 1 129 /74 (2) ; exports and the need to avoid disturbances on the Community market ; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 (3) of 8 October 1973 laying down general Whereas for the products listed in Article 1 (c) of rules to be applied in the event of the rice market Regulation No 359/67/ EEC the specific factors set out being disturbed, and in particular Article 4 (2) thereof ; in Article 3 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2737/73 must Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary also be taken into account ; Committee ; Whereas the export levy may be varied if the world Whereas Article 21 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC market situation or the specific requirements of provides that the necessary measures may be taken if certain markets make this necessary ; the cif price of one or more products is appreciably higher than the threshold price and if that situation is Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, the likely to continue thereby disturbing or threatening to following should be used to calculate the levies : disturb the Community market ; — for currencies the exchange rates for which are Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73 specifies that kept at any given moment within a band of the cif price may be regarded as appreciably higher 2-25 % , a conversion rate based on their actual than the threshold price when it exceeds it by at least parity ; 2 % ; whereas this excess may be regarded as being likely to continue where an imbalance between supply — for other currencies a conversion rate based on the and demand is established and where this imbalance arithmetic mean of the spot market rates for each is likely to persist having regard to foreseeable produc­ of these currencies against the Community curren­ tion and market price trends ; cies referred to in the preceding paragraph over a Whereas the high level of prices in international trade specified period ; could impede importation of rice into the Commu­ nity or provoke exportation from the Community ; Whereas it follows from applying the rules outlined above to the present situation on the market in rice , Whereas the situation described above can be said to and in particular to quotations or prices for these exist at the present time ; whereas to ensure supplies products within the Community and on the world in the Community an export levy should be intro­ market, that the export levies should be fixed as duced for this product ; shown in the Annex to this Regulation ; Whereas in view of the relationship between the rice and products processed from it and given the market Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation situation for these products, an export levy must also are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ be fixed for all products processed from rice ; ment Committee for Cereals, Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1974/ 75 marketing year by Regulations ( EEC) No 1718 /74 (4 ) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : and ( EEC) No 1935/74 (5), as amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 251 8 / 74 (6) ; Article 1 Whereas Article 3 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2737/73 specifies that when the export levy is being fixed The export levy referred to in the first indent of account must be taken of the existing situation and Article 2(1 ) of Regulation ( EEC) No 2737/ 73 is the future trend with regard to prices and availabilities hereby fixed as shown in the Annex for the products listed therein . ') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 1 . -') OJ No L 128 , 10 . 5 . 1974, p. 20 . Article 2 3) OJ No L 282, 9 . 10 . 1973 , p. 13 . ■») OJ No L 181 , 4 . 7. 1974, p. 7 . 5 ) OJ No L 203 , 25 . 7 . 1974, p. 22. This Regulation shall enter into force on 20 b) OJ No L 270 , 5 . 10 . 1974, p. 1 . December 1974 .

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

Done at Brussels , 19 December 1974. For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 19 December 1974 fixing the export levies on rice

CCT heading No Description of goods u. ». /100 kg

10.06 Ala ) Round grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified 12-000 seeds (') 10.06 A I b ) Long grained paddy rice, excluding officially certified seeds (') 6-000 10.06 A II a) Round grained husked rice 12-000 10.06 A II b) Long grained husked rice 6-000 10.06 B I a) Round grained semi-milled rice 12-000 10.06 B I b ) Long grained semi-milled rice —- 10.06 B II a) Round grained wholly-milled rice 12-000 10.06 B II b ) — Long grained wholly-milled rice 10.06 C Broken rice 12-000 11 .01 F Rice flour — 11.02 A VI Rice groats and meal 12-000 11.02 E He) 1 Flaked rice 12-000 11.02 F VI Pellets of rice 12-000

I1) Officially certified seeds are understood to be those seeds contained in the packages officially sealed and otncially labelled as " basic seed ', ' certified seed , first generation ', ' certified seed , second generation ' confor­ ming to the provisions of the Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed ( OJ No 125 , 11 . 7 . 1966 , p. 2309/66) and of the Council Decision of 26 March 1973 on the equivalence of jeed produced in Denmark , Ireland and the United Kingdom ( OJ No L 106, 20. 4. 1971 , p. 12/.