31978R2059

1 . 9 . 78 No L 240/5 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 2059/ 78 of 31 August 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and COMMUNITIES, long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European basis of quotations or prices on the world market Economic Community, relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 '; Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No whereas, for this calculation , the conversion rates 1418 /76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­ resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/ tion of the market in rice ( ! ), as last amended by Regu­ 67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates, lation (EEC) No 1260/78 (2), and in particular Article the processing costs and the value of the by-products 1 1 (2) thereof, for the various stages of rice processing (8), as last Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 572/77 (9), should Committee , be used where appropriate ;

Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and the Commission must take account of the fact that broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­ wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the to the difference between the threshold price and the standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­ 1423/76 and, in that case, to adjust the offers so as to milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies conform with the value of one kilogram of broken applicable to the corresponding husked rice and rice as fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as wholly milled rice ; amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1808 /74 ; whereas 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 1978 /79 taken into consideration are lower than those marketing year by Regulations (EEC) No 1262/78 (3) provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of and (EEC) No 1 627/78 (4) ; Regulation No 467/67/EEC ; Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission must take account of the factors indi­ cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the and in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 (5), as last Commission to take account of the fact that certain amended by Regulation (EEC) No 59/78 (6), and in offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a particular the most favourable purchasing opportuni­ product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to ties on the world market which are sufficiently repre­ adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts sentative of the real trend of the market, account fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the being taken in particular of the need to prevent offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating sudden variations likely to cause abnormal distur­ to a product presented in bulk ; bances on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must also be taken into account, whether this quality corresponds to the Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on standard quality fixed in Regulation (EEC) No the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made 1423/76 (7), or whether adjustments need to be made for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of by applying the corrective amounts provided for in the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­ Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July port charges in relation to Rotterdam ; 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts relating thereto ; Whereas, if the conditions provided for Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery (2 ) OJ No L 156, 14 . 6 . 1978 , p. 11 . during the following month or may be retained unal­ (3) OJ No L 156, 14. 6 . 1978 , p. 13 . tered for a limited period ; (4) OJ No L 190, 13 . 7. 1978 , p. 19 . (5) OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . (6) OJ No L 10, 13 . 1 . 1978 , p. 11 . (8) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (7) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 . H 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 last amended by Regulation (EEC) a band of 2*25 % , a rate of exchange based on No 1 198 /78 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by their effective parity ; an 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 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 Article 1 for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common 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 1418 /7j6 are hereby fixed as shown in the table in the intervening period to take account of variations annexed to this Regulation . in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only Article 2 if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an increase or a reduction of at least one unit of This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1978 . account per tonne in the amount of the levy in force ;

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

Done at Brussels, 31 August 1978 .

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH Vice-President

(•) OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2. (2) OJ No L 147, 3 . 6. 1978 , p. 1 . P ) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5 .

1 . 9 . 78 No L 240/7 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1978 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

(u.a. / tonne)

CCT Third ACP or heading Description No countries (3) OCT (') (2) (3)

10.06 Rice : A. Paddy rice ; husked rice : I. Paddy rice : 66.78 30.39 a) Round grain 115.40 54.70 b) Long grain II . Husked rice : a) Round grain 83.47 38-74 b) Long grain 144.25 69.13 B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : 115.36 47-78 a) Round grain b) Long grain 210.88 95.58 II. Wholly milled rice : 122-86 51.18 a) Round grain b) Long grain 226.07 102.79 C. Broken rice : 51.14 23.07

(') 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'. (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.