31975R3386

No L 334/ 10 31 . 12 . 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 3386/ 75 OF THE COMMISSION

of 30 December 1975

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 (') 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 668 / 75 (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 1484/75 ( 10) Committee ; should be used where appropriate ; Whereas Article 1 1 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 semistandard 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 1975/ 76 is made, however, if the prices for husked rice and marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 892/7 5 (3) semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into considera­ and ( EEC) No 2161 / 75 (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 3320 /75 (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 . : ) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975, p. 18 . Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of ; ) OJ No L 193 , 25 . 7 . 197 5, p. 3 . Regulation ( EEC) No 1613 /71 obtain, the cif price 4 ) O'l No L 220 , 20 . 8 . 1975 , p. 9 . may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery >) O") No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . o) O'l No L 328 , 20 . 12 . 1975, p. 32. ■') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p. 27 . O OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p. 1 . s ) OJ No L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p. 11 . ( 10 ) OJ No L 150 , 11 . 6 . 1975, p . 7 .

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during the following month or may be retained unal­ entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of tered for a limited period ; account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in force ; Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy levies should be calculated on the following basis : relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) — in the case of currencies which are maintained in No 1599/75 (*), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No relation to each other, at any given moment, 3329/75 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to on their effective parity ; third countries ; whereas the levy must be further — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the reduced in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each rice ; whereas the charging of this levy is subject to of these currencies recorded for a given period, in conditions, some of which are set out in Article 9 of relation to the Community currencies referred to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 of 24 June in the previous subparagraph ; 1975 ; Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­ Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 1553/71 (3 ) of tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as 19 July 1971 altered the definitions given in Annex A shown in the table annexed to this Regulation, of Regulation No 359/67/EEC and incorporated in supplementary notes Nos 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the Common Customs Tariff ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :

Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regula­ Article 1 tion No 359/67/ EEC, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common The import levies to be charged on the products listed Customs Tariff ; in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the table Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered annexed to this Regulation . in the intervening period to take account of variations in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine Article 2 cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy 1976 .

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

Done at Brussels , 30 December 1975 .

For the Commission

C. P. DRIESPRONG

Director

(') O ) No L 166 , 28 . 6 . 1975 , p . 67 . (-) OJ No L 329, 2 ?. 12 . 1 975 , p . 6 . O OJ No L 164, 22 . 7 . 1971 , p . 5 .

No L 334/ 12 31 . 12. 75 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 30 December 1975 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

(u.a. / metric ton)

CCT Third ACP and heading Description of goods countries OCT (1 )(2) No

10.06 Rice : A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :

I. Paddy rice : 32-07 13-04 a) Round grain b) Long grain 6818 31-09

II . Husked rice : \

a) Round grain 4009 17-05 85-23 39-62 b) Long grain B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : l

I. Semi-milled rice : \

69-11 24-66 a) Round grain b) Long grain 160-06 70-17 II. Wholly milled rice : \

a) Round grain 73-60 26-55 b) Long grain 171-59 75-55

C. Broken rice : 19-94 7-47

(') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75. (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 1599/75 provides that 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'.