31988R2699

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2699/88 of 31 August 198& 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 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and tion (EEC) No 1613/71 ; 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 riceC), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) quotations or prices on the world market relating, for No 2229/88 (2), and in particular Article 1 1 (2) thereof, each type of rice, to the products specified in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 ; whereas, for this calcula­ Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No tion, the conversion rates resulting from Commission 883/87 of 23 March 1987 laying down detailed rules for Regulation No 467/67/EEC of 21 August 1967 fixing the the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 conversion rates, the processing costs and the value of the on imports of rice of the long-grain aromatic Basmati by-products for the various stages of rice processing f), as variety falling within subheading 1006 10, 1006 20 or last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2325/88 (9), should be used where appropriate ; 1006 30 of the combined nomenclature ^), and in parti­ cular Article 8 thereof, Whereas, when these conversions are being effected, the Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, Commission must take account of the fact that certain offers are for rice containing a higher percentage of Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 broken rice than that allowed for in the standard quality provides for charging an import levy on paddy rice, fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 and, in that case, husked rice, semi-milled rice, wholly milled rige and must adjust the offers so as to conform with the value of broken rice ; whereas in the case of husked rice, wholly one kilogram of broken rice fixed by Regulation No 467/ milled rice and broken rice, the levy is equal to the diffe­ 67/EEC ; whereas no adjustment is made, however, if the rence between the threshold price and the cif price ; prices for husked rice and semi-milled or wholly milled whereas, in the case of paddy rice and semi-milled rice, rice taken into consideration are lower than those the levy should be derived from the levies applicable to provided for in the last subparagraph of Article 4 of Regu­ the corresponding husked rice and wholly milled rice ; lation No 467/67/EEC ;

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 1988/89 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 2574/88 (4) ; 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 tioned Regulation to make the offers comparable to offers 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 2325/88 (6), and in particular the most favourable relation to Rotterdam ; purchasing opportunities on the world market which are v- 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 ; 0 OJ No L 197, 26. 7. 1988, p. 30. 0 OJ No L 80, 24. 3. 1987, p. 20. (4) OJ No L 229, 18 . 8. 1988, p. 33. 0 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 /67. (*) OJ No L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 . 0 OJ No L 202, 27. 7. 1988, p. 41 .

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Whereas, in order that account may be taken of the not be less than the difference between the free-at-frontier interests of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and price for Basmati rice and the threshold price for long­ of the overseas countries and territories, the levy relating grain rice ; to them must, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No Whereas levies are fixed once a week and are altered in 486/85 ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No the intervening period to take account of variations in 1821 /87 (2), be reduced by a fixed amount and by an threshold prices or in the factors used to determine cif amount corresponding to 50 % of the levy relating to prices ; whereas, in the case of husked rice, wholly milled third countries ; whereas the levy must be further reduced rice and broken rice, the levies are altered only if varia­ in the case of semi-milled and wholly milled rice ; tions in the factors used to calculate the levy entail an whereas the charging of this levy is subject to conditions, increase or a reduction of at least 1,21 ECU per tonne in some of which are set out in Articles 1 0 and 1 1 of Regu­ the amount of the levy in force ; lation (EEC) No 486/85 and in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 551 /85 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, levies No 171 /88 (4); should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in rela­ Whereas, pursuant to Article 272 of the Act of Accession, tion to each other at any given moment within a band­ the Community as constituted at 31 December 1985 of 2,25 % a rate of exchange based on their central must, in the case of products specified in Article 1 of rate, multiplied by the corrective factor provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 which are imported from the last paragraph of Article 3 ( 1 ) of Council Regula­ Portugal, apply the arrangements which were applicable tion (EEC) No 1676/85 17), as last amended by Regula­ in respect of Portugal before accession ; whereas, under tion (EEC) No 1636/87 (8), Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3792/85 of 20 — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the December 1985 laying down the arrangements applying arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of to trade in agricultural products between Spain and these currencies recorded for a given period in rela­ Portugal (*), the same arrangements are to be applied in tion to the Community currencies referred to in the the case of Spain ; whereas a levy should be applied pursuant to those arrangements and whereas that levy previous indent, and the aforesaid coefficient ; should be calculated in accordance with the rules laid Whereas it follows from applying all the abovementioned down in Regulation (EEC) No 1613/71 and taking into provisions that the levies should be fixed as set out in the account the situation with regard to market prices in Annex hereto, Portugal ; and whereas, in the case of imports into Spain the accession compensatory amount applicable to trade between Spain and the Community as constituted at 31 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : December 1985 should be deducted from the levy ; Article 1 Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 determined 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 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3877/86 (6) shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. defined a special arrangement for the importation of certain quantities of Basmati rice into the Community ; Article 2 whereas this arrangement provides for a levy of 75 % of that calculated in accordance with Article 11 of Regula­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1988 . tion (EEC) No 1418/76 ; whereas however this levy may

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

Done at Brussels, 31 August 1988 . For the Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President

(') OJ No L 61 , 1 . 3 . 1985, p. 4. (2) OJ No L 172, 30 . 6. 1987, p. 102. (3) OJ No L 63, 2. 3 . 1985, p. 10 . (4) OJ No L 18, 22. 1 . 1988, p. 56. O OJ No L 367, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 7. 0 OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1 . (6) OJ No L 361 , 20. 12. 1986, p. 7. (») OJ No L 153, 13 . 6; 1987, p. 1 .

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ANNEX '

to the Commission Regulation of 31 August 1988 fixing the import levies on rice and broken rice (ECU / tonne) Third countries Arrangement ACP or OCT CN code Portugal (except ACP or OCT) in Regulation (EEC) CM2) 0 No 3877/86 (3)

1006 10 91 283,19 137,99 — 262,94 127,87 1006 1 0 99 (4) 197,21 1006 20 10 — 353,99 173,39 — — , ' 246,51 1006 20 90 0 328,68 160,74 1006 30 11 — 13,05 473,95 225,05 1006 30 19 (4) 12,97 546,66 261,44 410,00 1006 30 91 504,76 — 13,90 240,03 1006 30 99 («) 13,90 586,02 280,66 439,52 1006 40 00 0 — 107,38 50,69

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 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 Réunion 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) The amount is applicable to medium-grain and long-grain rice, as defined in paragraph 2 of Annex A of Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1418/76, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3877/87 (OJ No L 365, 24. 12. 1987).