1.7.95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 150/53 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1573/95 of 30 June 1995 on the detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 with regard to import duties on rice THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice ('), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and by Regulation (EC) No 3290/94 (%), and in particular Article 12 (2) and (4) thereof, Whereas the third subparagraph of point b of Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 lays down the method for calculating the percentage by which the inter- vention buying-in price valid on the day of import is to be increased in order to calculate the import duties on milled rice ; whereas that method takes account of the conversion rate, processing costs and the value of by-proudcts and an amount for the protection of industry ; whereas the day of importation should be fixed as the date of acceptance of the declaration by the customs authorities as laid down in Article 67 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 estab- lishing the Community Customs Code (%), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and Regulation (EC) No 3254/94(%); Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 provides that the rates of duty in the Common Customs Tariff shall be levied on the products referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation when they are improted ; whereas, however, in the case of products referred to in Article 12 (2) the import duty will be equal to the intervention buying-in price valid for those products on importation, increased by a certain percentage according to whether it is husked or milled rice, indica rice or japonica rice, and minus the import price, provided that duty does not exceed the rate of the Common Customs Tariff duties ; Whereas there are particular difficulties in the rice sector concerning the verification of the value of imported products ; whereas a system of flat-rate values is therefore most suitable for the implementation of the results of the Uruguay Round of negotiations ; Whereas in order to classify the consignments imported, the products referred to in Article 12 (2) of Regulation () O] No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1. {) OJ No L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105. 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(EEC) No 1418/76 must be subdivided into a number of qualities ; whereas the combined nomenclature codes to which these qualities correspond must therefore be speci- fied ; Whereas, for the purposes of calculating the import duty using the flat-rate import value, the representative caf import prices should be calculated for each of the quali- ties defined ; whereas, for the purposes of establishing those prices, price quotations for the different qualities of rice must be specified ; whereas these quotations should therefore be defined; Whereas, in the interests of clarity and transparency, the quotations for the different types of rice in publications by the Department of Agriculture of the United States of America constitute an objective basis for establishing representative caf import prices for rice in bulk ; whereas representative prices on the United States market, the Thai market or of other origins may be converted into representative caf import prices by adding the maritime freight costs on the charter market between the ports of origin and the Community port ; whereas, taking acount of the volume of freight and of trade in the ports of northern Europe, those ports constitute the Community destination for which the quotations of maritime freight prices are best known publicly, are most transparent and most easily available; whereas, therefore, the ports of northern Europe (Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Ghent) should be adopted as the Community destination ports ; Whereas, in order to monitor the trends in representative caf import prices thus established, it is appropriate to provide for weekly monitoring of the elements contri- buting to their calculation ; Whereas, for the purposes of fixing import duties for the rice referred to in Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76, a period of two weeks for determining represen- tative caf import prices for rice in bulk takes account of market trends without introducing elements of uncer- tainty ; whereas, on this basis, import duties for that product should be established taking account of the average of representative caf import prices noted over the abovementioned period, every two weeks on a Wednesday ; Whereas the import duty thus calculated can be applied over a two-week period without substantially affecting import prices, duties paid ; whereas, however, where no quotation is available for a given product over the period of calculation of representative caf import prices or where,