31986R0743

No L 70/34 Official Journal of the European Communities 13 . 3 . 86

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 743/86 of 12 March 1986 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, corrective amounts provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and quotations or prices on the world market relating, for Portugal, each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­ tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) by-products for the various stages of rice processing Q, as No 3768/85 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2249/85 (8), should be used where appropriate ; Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee,

Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Commission must take account of the fact that certain provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case, milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­ must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of rence between the threshold price and the cif price ; one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/ whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice, 67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ; rice taken into consideration are lower than those provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­ lation No 467/67/ EEC : Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1985/86 marketing year by Regulation (EEC) No 2250/85 (3) ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by Commission must take account of the factors indicated in applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­ Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ; 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts relating thereto (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2117/80 (*), and in particular the most favourable Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other purchasing opportunities on the world market which are sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market, ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­ account being taken in particular of the need to prevent tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in relation to Rotterdam : sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must also be taken into account, whether this quality as fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (*), Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . following month or may be retained unaltered for a 2) OJ No L 362, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 8 . limited period ; (3) OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 14. 0 OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . O OJ Nó L 206, 8 . 8 . 1980, p. 15. 0 OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . M OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20. (8) OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 13.

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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­ to them must, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an 486/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in 692/86 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an the amount of the levy in force ; amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to third countries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; should be calculated on the following basis : whereas the charging of this levy is subject to conditions, some of which are set out in Articles 1 0 and 1 1 of Regu­ — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ lation (EEC) No 486/85 and in Regulation (EEC) No tion to each other at any given moment within a band 551 /85 (3) ; of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession, the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­ the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 tion (EEC) No 1 676/85 («), must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­ in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under tion to the Community currencies referred to in the Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying to trade in agricultural products between Spain and Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied Annex hereto, pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into account the situation with regard to market prices in Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ; Article 1 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 (^ deter­ mined the standard qualities for rice and broken rice ; The import levies to be charged on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regulation shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs Tariff ; Article 2 Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in the intervening period to take account of variations in This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 March 1986.

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

Done at Brussels, 12 March 1986 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3. 1985, p. 4. 0 OJ No L 63, 5. 3. 1986. (3) OJ No L 63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10 . (4) OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7. 0 OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20 . (6) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .

No L 70/36 Official Journal of the European Communities 13 . 3 . 86

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 12 March 1986 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice (ECU / tonne) CCT \ Third ACP or heading Description Portugal No countries (3) OCT 000

ex 10.06 Rice : II

B. Other : \\ I. Paddy rice ; husked rice : ll a) Paddy rice : ll 1 . Round grain — 314,82 153,81 — 318,09 2. Long grain 155,44 b) Husked rice : ll

1 . Round grain — 393,53 193,16 2. Long grain — 397,61 195,20 I II . Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : l I a) Semi-milled rice : \

1 . Round grain 13,05 485,78 230,96 2. Long grain 12,97 615,59 295,91 b) Wholly milled rice : I

1 . Round grain 13,90 517,36 246,33 2. Long grain 13,90 659,92 317,61 III . Broken rice 30,24 164,79 79,39 .I

(') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regula­ tion No 551 /85 . (2) In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas depart­ ment of Reunion 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 14J8/76.