31979R1916

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1916/79

of 31 August 1979

fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the COMMUNITIES, basis of quotations or prices on the world market relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; Economic Community, whereas, for this calculation, the conversion rates resulting from Commission Regulation No 467/ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion rates, 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organiza­ the processing costs and the value of the by-products tion of the market in rice (!), as last amended by Regu­ for the various stages of rice processing (7), as last lation (EEC) No 1 552/79 (2), and in particular Article amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1771 /79 (8), should 11 (2) thereof, be used where appropriate ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the Commission must take account of the fact that Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 certain offers are for rice containing a higher percen­ provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, tage of broken rice than that allowed for in the husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No broken rice ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, 1423/76 and, in that case, must adjust the offers so as wholly milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to conform with the value of one kilogram of broken to the difference between the threshold price and the rice fixed by Regulation No 467/67/EEC, as amended cif price ; whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi­ by Regulation (EEC) No 1 808/74 ; whereas no adjust­ milled rice, the levy should be derived from the levies ment is made, however, if the prices for husked rice applicable to the corresponding husked rice and and semi-milled or wholly milled rice taken into wholly milled rice ; consideration are lower than those provided for in the Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regulation No 467/ milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1979/80 67/EEC ; marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 1 774/79 (3) ;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission to take account of the fact that certain Commission must take account of the factors indi­ offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a cated in Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to and in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif fixed by the abovementioned Regulation to make the prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating corrective amounts relating thereto (4), as last amended to a product presented in bulk ; by Regulation (EEC) No 1776/79 (5), and in particular the most favourable purchasing opportunities on the world market which are sufficiently representative of Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the real trend of the market, account being taken in the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made particular of the need to prevent sudden variations for other ports being adjusted, account being taken of likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Commu­ the corrections necessitated by the difference in trans­ nity market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered port charges in relation to Rotterdam ; must also be taken into account, whether this quality as fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (6), or Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) whether adjustments need to be made by applying the of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price corrective amounts provided for in Regulation (EEC) may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery No 1613/71 ; during the following month or may be retained unal­ tered for a limited period ; Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain

Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the 1 ) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States 2) OJ No L 188, 26. 7. 1979, p. 9. and of the overseas countries and territories, the levy 3) OJ No L 203, 11 . 8 . 1979, p. 11 . 4) OJ No L 168, 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . 5) OJ No L 203, 11 . 8 . 1979, p. 15. (7) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (») OJ No L 203, 11 . 8 . 1979, p. 6. 6) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20.

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relating to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) — in the case of currencies which are maintained in No 706/76 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) relation to each other at any given moment within No 1 198/78 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by a band of 2-25 %, a rate of exchange based on an amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating their effective parity ; 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 Regulation (EEC) No 706/76 ; in the previous indent ;

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of 19 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 of 29 July 1971 amending Regulation No 359/67/EEC on March 1979 (4) laid down the coefficient for the common organization of the market in rice (3) expressing amounts, fixed in units of account, in altered the definitions given in Annex A to Regula­ ECU ; tion (EEC) No 1418/76 and incorporated in Supple­ mentary Notes 2 and 3E to Chapter 10 of the Whereas it follows from applying all the abovemen­ Common Customs Tariff ; tioned provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the Annex hereto, 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Customs Tariff ;

Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered Article 1 in the intervening period to take account of variations in threshold prices or in the factors used to determine The import levies to be charged on the products listed cif prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly in Article 1 (1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No milled rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only 1418/76 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. if variations in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an increase or a reduction of at least 1-21 ECU Article 2 per tonne in the amount of the levy in force ;

Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September levies should be calculated on the following basis : 1979 .

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

Done at Brussels, 31 August 1979.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President

(») OJ No L 85, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 2. (*) OJ No L 147, 3. 6. 1978, p. 1 . 3) OJ No L 164, 22. 7. 1971 , p. 5. (4) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1979 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

(ECU / tonne)

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

10.06 Rice :

A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :

I. Paddy rice :

71-88 32.31 a) Round grain

101.45 47.10 b) Long grain

II . Husked rice : \ iii

a) Round grain 89.85 41.30 I

126.81 59.78 b) Long grain

B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :

I. Semi-milled rice : I \

171.67 73-87 I a) Round grain

274.97 125-56 b) Long grain

II. Wholly milled rice :

182.83 79-03 a) Round grain

294-77 135.00 b) Long grain

C. Broken rice : 62-65 28-31

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