CELEX: 31973R1645
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-22 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1645/73 of the Commission of 21 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 165/ 16                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            22. 6 . 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1645/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                            of 21 June 1973
                                             fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                             of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                               relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                           in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                   Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                       requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/
67/EEC (!) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                     Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                     provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /73
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                  to the offer prices and today's quotations known to
new Member States to the European Economic                             the Commission that the levies at present in force
Community and the European Atomic Energy                               should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                      this Regulation ;
and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1 121 /73 (4) and
subsequent amending Regulations ;                                                              Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                    The import levies to be charged on the products listed
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                   in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                    67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
     relation to each other, at any given moment,                      annexed to this Regulation .
     within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
     on their effective parity ;                                                               Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the                   This Regulation shall enter into force on 22 June
     arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each                   1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 21 June 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                    P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                               Member of the Commission
 (') OJ  No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 .
 (2) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14.
 (3) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5 .
 (4) OJ  No  L 115, 1 . 5 . 1 973 , p . 7 .
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                                                                    ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 21 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                               (u.a./lOO kg)
             CCT                                                                                                Third          AASM/
           heading                                      Description of goods                                  countries      OCT (>) (»)
             No
       1006                             Rice :
                                         Λ . Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                              I. Paddy rice :
                                                 a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                 b) Long grained                                                  0                0
                                             II. Husked rice :
                                                 a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                 b) Long grained                                                  0                0
                                        B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                 a) Round grained                                                 0                0
                                                 b) Long grained                                               4-953            2-072
                                             II. Wholly milled rice :
                                                 a ) Round grained                                                0                0
                                                 b) Long grained                                               5-310            2-228
                                        C. Broken rice                                                            0                0
      (') Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of
          product! originating in the AASM and OCT .
      W Thi* levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70.