30. 5. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 139/15 
Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) fixing the monthly price increases for paddy rice 
and husked rice for the 1988/1989 marketing year 
(88/C 139/12) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, — 1,57 ECU per tonne for the intervention and buying-in 
^/licwaj Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, 
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 
21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in 
rice i1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No ..., and in 
particular Article 7(2) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas, when the number and amounts of the monthly 
increases and the first month during which those increases 
are to apply are fixed, account should be taken of the 
storage costs and financing charges for storing rice in the 
Community and of the need to ensure that the disposal of 
stocks of rice conforms to market requirements; whereas 
such stocks should be disposed of more regularly by 
discouraging operators from holding them; whereas, to 
that end, those increases should be reduced, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULTION: 
Article 1 
1. For the 1988/1989 marketing year, the monthly 
increases provided for in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) 
No 1418/76 shall be: 
(!) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1. 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic 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 Regulation (EEC) No ..., and in 
particular Article 8(a)(3) thereof, 
(!) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1. — 1,96 ECU per tonne for the target price. 
2. The monthly increases shall apply to the intervention 
and buying-in prices from 1 January to 1 July 1989, the 
prices thus obtained for July 1989 remaining valid until 
31 August 1989. 
The monthly increases shall apply to the target price from 
1 October 1988 to 1 July 1989, the price thus obtained for 
July 1989 remaining valid until 31 August 1989. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 September 1988. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States. 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas the objective of the production aid is to encourage 
varietal conversion of rice production to certain types of 
rice for which greater demand exists on the Community Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) fixing the amount of the production aid for certain 
varieties of rice sown in the 1988/1989 marketing year 
(88/C 139/13) 
No C 139/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 30. 5. 88 
market; whereas the varieties for which demand exists 
normally have lower crop yields than those of the varieties 
that are traditionally grown; 
Whereas the production aid must be fixed at a level which 
enable the lower revenue resulting from the decreased 
yields to be offset, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
The production aid for certain varieties of rice referred to in 
Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 and sown in the 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community and in particular Articles 42 and 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas under the terms of Protocol 7 on ACP sugar 
annexed to the Lome Convention (*) and of the Agreement 
between the European Economic Community and the 
Republic of India on cane sugar (2), the Community has 
undertaken to purchase and import at guaranteed prices 
specific quantities of cane sugar, raw or white, which 
originate in certain ACP States and the Republic of India 
and which they undertake to deliver it; whereas the 
provisions referred to stipulate that they are to be 
implemented within the framework of the management of 
the market organization concerned which is laid down in 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 (3), as last amended 
by Regulation (EEC) No 3993/87 (4); whereas those 
provisions further stipulate that, after negotiation, annual 
(!) OJ No L 86, 31. 3. 1986, p. 164. 
(2) OJ No L 190, 23. 7. 1985, p. 35. 
(3) OJ No L 177, 1. 7. 1981, p. 4. 
(4) OJ No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 24. 1988/1989 marketing year shall be 330 ECU per hectare for 
the countries referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) 
No ... . 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1988. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States. 
guaranteed prices are to be fixed at which the Community 
undertakes to purchase, within agreed quantities, quan­
tities of the said sugars which cannot be marketed in the 
Community at a price equivalent to or in excess of the 
guaranteed price; 
Whereas the guaranteed prices for preferential raw sugar 
have not, since 1985/1986, enabled the Community refiners 
concerned to pay the suppliers in question the said price 
without any undue adverse effect on their margins; 
whereas that adverse effect has since been offset by a 
Community contribution granted under a temporary 
scheme the period of validity of which has been renewed; 
whereas it is now advisable to introduce a similar but more 
suitable scheme, whereby adjustment aid is paid by the 
Community for the refining of preferential raw sugar in the 
Community; 
Whereas, in order to preserve a balance between the price 
of preferential raw cane sugar and that of raw cane sugar 
from the French overseas departments at the stage where 
those products enter the refinery, raw cane sugar from 
those departments and, when it is processed into white 
sugar in refineries in the Community, raw sugar obtained 
from beet harvested in the Community qualify for an 
additional Community subsidy which is identical to that 
paid in respect of preferential raw sugar; whereas it is 
advisable that this Regulation include such provisions; 
Whereas a provision should be introduced whereby the 
amount of the adjustment aid for the sugars in question 
can, where appropriate, be altered in order to maintain the Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1785/81 on the common 
organization of the markets in the sugar sector 
(88/C 139/14)