31976R1557

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1557/76 of 30 June 1976 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 market relating, for each type of rice, to the products Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No Economic Community, 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 (7), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1484/75 (8) should Having , regard to the opinion of the Monetary be used where appropriate ; Committee,

Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, the Commission must take account of the fact that husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­ broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No to the difference between the threshold price and the 1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­ conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as applicable to the corresponding husked rice and amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808/74 ; whereas wholly milled rice ; 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 1975/76 taken into consideration are lower than those marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 429/76 (2) provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of and (EEC) No 2161 /75 (3) ; Regulation No 467/67/EEC ;

Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission must take account of the factors indi­ Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the Commission to take account of the fact that certain cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (4), as last offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3320/75 (5), and in product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­ adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­ fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the sentative of the real trend of the market, account offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating being taken in particular of the need to prevent to a product presented in bulk ; sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­ bances on the Community market ; whereas the Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on quality of the goods offered must also be taken into the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made account, whether this quality corresponds to the for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­ 1423/76 (6), or whether adjustments need to be made port charges in relation to Rotterdam ; by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price amounts relating thereto ; may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the following month or may be retained unal­ Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round-grained tered for a limited period ; and long-grained husked rice and round-grained and

(•) OJ No L 166, 25. 6 . 1976, p. 1 . Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the (2) OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 33 . interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States (3) OJ No L 220, 20 . 8 . 1975, p. 9 . (4) OJ No L 168 , 27 . 7 . 1971 , p. 28 . (5) OJ No L 328 , 20 . 12. 1975, p. 32. ( 7) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p . 20 . (8) 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 subject 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 in the intervening period to take account of variations The import levies to be charged on the products listed in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly 1418 /76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only annexed to this Regulation. if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of Article 2 account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in force : This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.

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

Done at Brussels, 30 June 1976 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(•) 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 30 June 1976 fixing the import levies on nee and broken rice

(u.a./ metric ton)

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

10.06 Rice : ' A. Paddy rice ; husked rice : I. Paddy rice : a) Round grain 101.94 47.97 b) Long grain 9800 4600 II . Husked rice : a) Round grain 127.43 60.72 122.50 58.25 b) Long grain B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grain 149.85 65.03 b) Long grain 223.74 102.01 II . Wholly milled rice : a) Round grain 159.59 69.55 b) Long grain 239.85 109.68 C. Broken rice : 39.51 17.26

(') Subject to the application of the provisions of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 . (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas depart­ ments of products originating in the African , Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'.