CELEX: 31973R1879
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1879/73 of the Commission of 12 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice

13 . 7 . 73                                Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 192/21
                              REGULATION ( EEC) No 1879/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 12 July 1973
                                     fixing the export refunds on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       where the proportion of broken rice in the rice
COMMUNITIES,                                                         exported exceeds that maximum ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                Whereas Article 3 of Regulation No 366/67/ EEC
Economic Community ;                                                  defines the specific criteria to be taken into account
                                                                     when the export refund on rice and broken rice is
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                           being calculated ;
67/ EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                  Whereas the world market situation or the specific
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                    requirements of certain markets may make it neces­
Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3 ) on the Accession of               sary to vary the refund for certain products according
new Member States to the European Economic                            to destination ;
Community and the European Atomic Energy
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                     Whereas the refund must be fixed once a week ;
and in particular the first sentence of the fourth sub­               whereas it may be altered in the intervening period ;
paragraph of Article 1 7 (2) thereof ;
                                                                      Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                          refunds should be calculated on the following basis :
Committee ;
                                                                      — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
Whereas Article 17 of Regulation No 359/67/ EEC                            relation to each other, at any given moment,
provides that the difference between quotations or                        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
prices on the world market for the products listed in                      on their effective parity ;
Article 1 of that Regulation and prices for those                     — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
products within the Community may be covered by                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
an export refund ;                                                         of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
                                                                           relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation No 366/                            in the previous subparagraph ;
67/ EEC (4 ) of 25 July 1967 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on rice and criteria for                  Whereas it follows from applying these rules and
fixing the amount of such refunds, as amended by                      criteria to the present situation on the market in rice
Regulation No 1019 /67/ EEC (5), provides that when                   and in particular to quotations or prices for rice and
refunds are being fixed account must be taken of the                  broken rice within the Community and on the world
existing situation and the future trend with regard to                market that the refund should be fixed at the amounts
prices and availabilities of rice and broken rice on the              shown in the Annex to this Regulation ;
Community market on the one hand and prices for
rice and broken rice on the world market on the                       Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
other ; whereas the same Article provides that it is also             are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­
important to ensure equilibrium and the natural devel­                ment Committee for Cereals ;
opment of prices and trade on the rice market and,
furthermore, to take into account the economic aspect
of the proposed exports and the need to avoid distur­                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
bance of the Community market ;
                                                                                               Article 1
Whereas Regulation No 669/67/ EEC (6), as amended
by Regulation ( EEC) No 1057/68 (7), lays down the                    The refunds on the products listed in Article 1 of
maximum percentage of broken rice allowed in rice                     Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC with the exception of
for which an export refund is fixed and specifies the                 those listed in paragraph 1 (c) of that Article, exported
percentage by which that refund is to be reduced                       in the natural state, are hereby fixed as shown in the
                                                                      Annex to this Regulation .
(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . 1 .
(-') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14.
(') OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 .                                                        Article 2
h) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 34.
(5 ) OJ No 31 1 , 21 . 12 . 1967, p . 13 .
(o) OJ No 241 , 5 . 10 . 1967, p . 6 .                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 13 July
( 7) OJ No L 179 , 25 . 7. 1968 , p . 31                               1973 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .1
             Done at Brussels, 12 July 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                  P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                              Member of the Commission
                                                             ANNEX
                       to the Commission Regulation of 12 July 1973 fixing the export refunds on rice
                                                         and broken rice
                                                                                                        (u.a . ¡100 kg
           CCT                                                                                         Amount of
         heading                                         Description of goods                            refund
            No
     10.06                   Rice :
                             A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                                 I
                                II. Husked rice :
                                    a) Round grained                                                       -
                                    b) Long grained                                                        —
                             B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice t
                                 I. Semi-milled rice :
                                    a) Round grained                                                       —
                                    b ) Long grained                                                       —
                                II. Wholly milled rice :
                                    a) Round grained                                                       —
                                    b) Long grained                                                        —
                            C. Broken rice                                                                 —
    The amount by which the refunds may be increased pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation No 719/
    67/EEC is 0-20 u.a. / 100 kg.