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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 200/87 of 23 January 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 1423/76 (*), or whether adjustments heed to be made by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­ tion (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 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of Portugal, quotations or prices on the world market relating, for each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the No 1449/86 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof, by-products for the various stages of rice processing Q, as 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 Commission must take account of the fact that certain Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, offers are for rice containing a higher percentage 6f husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case, broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­ one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/ rence between the threshold price and the cif price ; 67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice, prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to rice taken into consideration are lower than those the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ; 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 1986/87 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers 2465/86 (3); are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­ Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission must take account of the factors indicated in tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers for delivery cif or relating to a product presented in bulk ; Article 16 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 of 26 July 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other relating thereto (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­ No 21 17/80 0, and in particular the most favourable tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in purchasing opportunities on the world market which are relation to Rotterdam ; sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market, account being taken in particular of the need to prevent sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be goods offered must also be taken into account, whether calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No following month or may be retained unaltered for a limited period ; 0) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 133, 21 . 5. 1986, p. 1 . (3) OJ No L 211 , 1 . 8 . 1986, p. 12. (*) OJ No L 166, 25 . 6. 1976, p. 20 . 0 OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p. 28 . 0 OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 206, 8 . 8 . 1980, p. 15. (8) OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 13 .

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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the intervening period to take account of variations in of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled 486/85 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­ 73/87 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an amount tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to third coun­ increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in tries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced in the the amount of the levy in force ; case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas the Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies charging of this levy is subject to conditions, some of should be calculated on the following basis : which are set out in Articles 10 and 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation (EEC) — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ No 551 /85 (3); tion to each other at any given moment within a band of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession, rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 the last paragraph of Article 3 (1 ) of Council Regula­ must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of tion (EEC) No 1676/85 0, Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­ December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying tion to the Community currencies referred to in the to trade in agricultural products between Spain and previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy Annex hereto, 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 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade Article 1 between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ; The import levies to be charged on the products listed in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. standard qualities for rice and broken rice ;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 (1 ) of Regulation Article 2 (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs This Regulation shall enter into force on 26 January Tariff ; 1987 .

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

Done at Brussels, 23 January 1987. For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4. 0 OJ No L 11 , 13, 1 . 1987, p. 23. (3) OJ No L 63, 2. 3. 1985, p. 10. (4) OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7. 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 23 January 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice (ECU / tonne) CCT Third ACP or heading Description Portugal No countries 0 OCT (1) (2) (3)

ex 10.06 Rice : B. Other : IIII I. Paddy rice ; husked rice : I Ill a) Paddy rice : \ I

— 1 . Round grain 325,66 159,23 — 363,74 178,27 2. Long grain b) Husked rice : I I

— 1 . Round grain 407,08 199,94 I

— 2. Long grain 454,67 223,73 II. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I a) Semi-milled rice : I l 1 1 . Round grain 13,05 530,06 253,10

2. Long grain 12,97 654,72 315,47 b) Wholly milled rice : I I

1 . Round grain 13,90 564,52 269,91 2. Long grain 13,90 701,86 338,58 III. Broken rice 80,06 221,19 107,59

N.B. The levies are to be converted into national currencies using the specific agricultural conversion rates fixed in Regulation (EEC) No 3294/86. (') Subject to the application of the provisions of Articles 10 and 1 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regulation No 551 /85. 0 In accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 486/85, the levies are not applied to imports into the overseas department of Reunion of products originating in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States or in the 'overseas countries and territories'. 0 The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76.