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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1953/ 77 of 31 August 1977 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 (EEC) No specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­ 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calculation , the conversion tion of the market in rice ('), as amended by Regula­ rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/ tion (EEC) No 1158/77 (2), and in particular Article 11 67/ EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates, (2) thereof, the processing costs and the value of the by-products for the various stages of rice processing ^), as last Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 572/77 ( 10), should Committee, be used where appropriate ; Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 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 (EEC) No milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies 1423/76 and, in that case to adjust the offers so as to applicable to the corresponding husked rice and conform with the value of one kilogramme of broken wholly milled rice ; rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly no adjustment is made, however, if the prices for milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1977/78 husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rice marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1 1 60/77 (3), taken into consideration are lower than those (EEC) No 1 639/77 (4) and (EEC) No 1832/77(5 ); provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Regulation No 467/ 67/ EEC ; Commission must take account of the factors indi­ cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (6), as last Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the Commission to take account of the fact that certain amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 204/77 (7), and in particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­ offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­ product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to sentative of the real trend of the market, account adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts being taken in particular of the need to prevent fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­ offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating bances on the Community market ; whereas the to a product presented in bulk ; quality of the goods offered must also be taken into account, whether this quality corresponds to the standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No Whereas the cif price is caluclated for Rotterdam on the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made 1 423/76 (8), or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the corrective amounts provided for in for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­ 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices port charges in relation to Rotterdam ; and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts relating thereto ; Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain , the cif price (2) OJ No L 136, 2. 6. 1977, p. 13 . may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery (3 ) OJ No L 136, 2. 6 . 1977, p. 16 . during the following month or may be retained unal­ («) OJ No L 183 , 22 . 7 . 19 77, p . 4. tered for a limited period ; (5) OJ No L 202, 9 . 8 . 1977, p . 14 . (6) OJ No L 168 , 22 . 7. 1971 , p . 28 . O OJ No L 139 , 7 . 6 . 19 77, p. 30 . H OJ No 204, 24 . 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p . 20 . ( ,0) OJ No L 174, 14. 7. 1977, p. 26 .

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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, interests of the African , Caribbean and Pacific States levies should be calculated on the following basis : or of the 'overseas countries and territories', the levy — in the case of currencies which are maintained in relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) relation to each other at any given moment within No 706/76 ('), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based on 328/77 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an their effective parity ; amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to 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 706/76 of 30 March in the previous subparagraph ; 1976 ; Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­ Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19 tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as July 1971 (3) altered the definitions given in Annex A shown in the table annexed to this Regulation, to Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 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 tion (EEC) No 1418/76 , the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Article 1 Customs Tariff ; The import levies to be charged on the products listed Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No in the intervening period to take account of variations 1418/76 are hereby fixed as shown in the table in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine annexed to this Regulation . cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy Article 2 entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of account per metric ton in the amount of the levy in This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September force ; 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 August 1977. For the Commission Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

O OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2. (2) OJ No L 46, 18 . 2. 1977, p . 1 . P) OJ No L 164, 22. 7 . 1971 , p. 5 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1977 fixing the import levies on rice and broken nee

(u.a. / tonne)

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

10.06 Rice : A. Paddy rice ; husked rice : I. Paddy rice : a) Round grain 67-36 30-68 b) Long grain 92-13 43-07 II . Husked rice : a) Round grain 84-20 39-10 b) Long grain 115-16 54-58 B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grain 146-90 63-55 b) Long grain 221-41 100-84 II . Wholly milled rice : a) Round grain 156-45 67-98 b) Long grain 237-35 108-43 C. Broken rice : 69-84 32-42

(') 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, 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'.