31987R2603

No L 245/36 29 . 8 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2603/87 of 28 August 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, on the Community market ; whereas the quality of the goods offered must also be taken into account, whether Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European this quality as fixed in Council Regulation (EEC) No Economic Community, 1423/76 Q, or whether adjustments need to be made by applying the corrective amounts provided for in Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ; Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal, Whereas, furthermore, in the case of round grain and long Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 grain husked rice and round grain and long grain wholly of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the milled rice, the cif price is calculated on the basis of market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) quotations or prices on the world market relating, for No 1907/87 (2), and in particular Article 11 (2) thereof, 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 Commission Regulation (EEC) No Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the 883/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 by-products for the various stages of rice processing ^), as on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2249/85 (®), should variety falling within subheading ex 10.06 B I or II of the be used where appropriate ; Common Customs Tariff (3), and in particular Article 8 thereof, Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the Commission must take account of the fact that certain Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418 /76 fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case, provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rice and one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/ broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly 67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­ prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled rence between the threshold price and the cif price ; rice taken into consideration are lower than those whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice, provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­ the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to lation No 467/67/ EEC ; the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ;

Whereas the threshold prices for husked rice, wholly Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 requires the milled rice and broken rice were fixed for the 1987/88 Commission to take account of the fact that certain offers marketing year by Commission Regulation (EEC) No are for delivery cost and freight or relate to a product put 2332/87 (4) ; up in bags and, if this is the case, to adjust such offers by applying the rates or amounts fixed by the abovemen­ tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers Whereas, for the purpose of calculating cif prices, the Commission must take account of the factors indicated in 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 Whereas the cif price is calculated for Rotterdam on the 1971 laying down detailed rules for fixing cif prices and basis of the abovementioned factors, offers made for other levies on rice and broken rice and the corrective amounts ports being adjusted, account being taken of the correc­ relating thereto (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) tions necessitated by the difference in transport charges in No 3817/85 (6), and in particular the most favourable relation to Rotterdam ; purchasing opportunities on the world market which are sufficiently representative of the real trend of the market, Whereas, if the conditions provided for in Article 1 (3) of account being taken in particular of the need to prevent Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 obtain, the cif price may be sudden variations likely to cause abnormal disturbances calculated on the basis of offers for delivery during the following month or may be retained unaltered for a (') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . limited period ; (2) OJ No L 182, 3 . 7. 1987, p. 51 . (3) OJ No L 80, 24. 3 . 1987, p. 20 . (4) OJ No L 210, 1 . 8 . 1987, p . 59 . O OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 20. 0 OJ No L 168 , 27. 7. 1971 , p . 28 . (8) OJ No L 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . fó OJ No L 368, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 16. 0 OJ No L 210, 7. 8 . 1985, p. 13 .

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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the Whereas, in accordance with Article 20 ( 1 ) of Regulation interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and (EEC) No 1418/76, the nomenclature provided for in this of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating Regulation is incorporated in the Common Customs to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No Tariff ; 486/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in 73/87 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an amount the intervening period to take account of variations in corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to third coun­ threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif tries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced in the prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; whereas the rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­ charging of this levy is subject to conditions, some of tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an which are set out in Articles 1 0 and 1 1 of Regulation increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in (EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation (EEC) the amount of the levy in force ; No 551 /85 (3) ; Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession, should be calculated on the following basis : the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from tion to each other at any given moment within a band Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­ December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying tion (EEC) No 1676/85 (*), as last amended by Regula­ to trade in agricultural products between Spain and tion (EEC) No 1636/87 0, Portugal (4), the same arrangements are to be applied in — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­ should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid tion to the Community currencies referred to in the down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; account the situation with regard to market prices in Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31 Annex hereto, December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : standard qualities for rice and broken rice ; Article 1 Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (*) defined a special arrangement for the importation of The import levies to be charged on the products listed in certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ; Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of shall be as set out in the Annex hereto . that calculated in accordance with Article 1 1 of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may Article 2 not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September grain rice ; 1987 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 August 1987 .

For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4. (2) OJ No L 11 , 13 , 1 . 1987, p. 23 . (3) OJ No L 63, 2. 3 . 1985, p. 10 . O OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p . 7. («) OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . 0 OJ No L 361 , 20 . 12. 1986, p . 1 . 0 OJ No L 153, 13 . 6. 1987, p. 1 .

No L 245/38 29 . 8 . 87 Official Journal of the European Communities

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 August 1987 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice (ECU / tonne) Third CCT countries ACP or Basmati heading Description Portugal No (except ACP OCT (') (2) 0 0 or OCT) (3)

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

— — 1 . Round grain 326,78 159,79

— 2. Long grain 330,44 161,62 247,83 b) Husked rice : I \ l

— — 1 . Round grain 408,47 200,63 — 413,05 2. Long grain 202,92 309,79 II . Semi-milled or wholly milled Il rice : l IIIIIl a) Semi-milled rice : lili Il

13,05 505,93 — 1 . Round grain 241,04 2. Long grain 12,97 600,33 288,28 450,25

b) Wholly milled rice : \

1 . Round grain 13,90 538,82 257,06 — 2. Long grain 13,90 643,56 309,43 482,67 III . Broken rice — 88,84 200,51 97,25

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 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 486/85 and of Regulation No 551 /85. (2) 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'. (3) The import levy on rice entering the overseas department of Reunion is specified in Article 11a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76. (4) This levy is applicable to Basmati rice covered by the arrangement provided for by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86.