31994R0260

No L 31 /28 Official Journal of the European Communities 4. 2 . 94

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 260/94

of 3 February 1994

suspending advance fixing of the import levy for broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, rules covering the importation of broken rice originating in the ACP States ; whereas those rules provide for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European advance fixing of the import levy ; whereas, for the Community, purpose of applying those rules, the procedure of advance Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 fixing of the levies on broken rice imported from the of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the ACP States should therefore be maintained ; market in rice ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1544/93 (2), and in particular the first paragraph of Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are Article 13 (7) thereof, in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, Whereas Article 13 (7) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 provides that the provisions concerning advance fixing of the levy may be suspended if the market situation shows HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : that the application of such provisions will or is likely to cause difficulties ; whereas this provision may be applied Article 1 only, as deemed necessary, for a strictly specified period ; whereas the application of the provisions in question 1 . Advance fixing of the import levy for the products should therefore be suspended until 4 March 1994 in referred to in Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC) order to enable an assessment of the impact of the No 1418/76 is hereby suspended from 4 February to measure on trade flows ; 4 March 1994.

Whereas there is danger, given the reduction of the levy 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to products imported on broken rice, that if existing arrangements are adhered under the arrangements laid down in Regulation (EEC) to, levies could be fixed in advance for quantities conside­ No 999/90 . rably in excess of the quantities which might be envi­ saged under normal conditions ; Article 2 Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 999/90 (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 560/91 (4), lays down This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 February- 1994.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 February 1994.

For the Commission

Rene STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 154, 25. 6. 1993, p. 5. (J) OJ No L 101 , 21 . 4. 1990, p. 20. (4) OJ No L 62, 8. 3. 1991 , p. 26.