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Language: en
Date: 1974-05-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 25 April 1974 fixing the minimum export levy for the invitation to tender for the export of milled long grained rice issued under Regulation (EEC) No 813/74

20 . 5 . 74                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 136 / 15
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 25 April 1974
               fixing the minimum export levy for the invitation to tender for the export of milled
                              long grained rice issued under Regulation (EEC) No 813 /74
                                                            (74/246/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                            both as regards supplies and as regards trade,
COMMUNITIES,                                                              and
                                                                     — the economic aspect of the exports;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;                                         Whereas Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3197/
                                                                     73 stipulates that the award is made to the tenderer
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/                        or tenderers whose tenders quote a levy equal to or
EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common                                 higher than the minimum;
organization of the market in rice, as last amended
by the Act of Accession (2);                                         Whereas it follows from applying these rules to the
                                                                     present situation on the market for the rice in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                          question that the minimum export levy should be
2737/73 (3) of 8 October 1973 laying down general                    fixed as shown in Article 1 ; whereas the tonnage of
rules to be applied in the event of the rice market                  milled long grained rice to which this minimum
being disturbed, and in particular Article 4 (2)                      applies is 15 600 metric tons ;
thereof;
                                                                     Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision
Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No                       are in accordance with the Opinion of the
3197/73 (4) of 23 November 1973 establishing the                     Management Committee for Cereals ;
conditions for the application of the system of
tendering for export levies on rice, and in particular
Article 5 ( 1 ) thereof;                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas an invitation to tender for the export levy                                          Article 1
on milled long grained rice was issued under
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 813/74 (5) of 5                        The minimum export levy for milled long grained
April 1974; whereas the notice of invitation to                       rice fixed on the basis of tenders submitted for 25
tender (6) associated with this Regulation specified                 April 1974 is hereby fixed at 60-7 units of account
that the total tonnage for which the export levy                      per metric ton.
could be fixed was approximately 30 000 metric
tons ;
                                                                                             Article 2
Whereas Article 5 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 3197/
73 allows the Commission, in accordance with the                      This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
procedure laid down in Article 26 of Regulation No
359/67/EEC, to fix a minimum export levy ; whereas,
when this minimum levy is being fixed, account
must be taken of the criteria set out in Article 3 ( 1 )              Done at Brussels, 25 April 1974.
 (b) and (d) of Regulation (EEC) No 2737/73,
namely:                                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                                                 P. J. LARDINOIS
— the objectives of the common organization of the
      market in rice, namely to balance that market                                       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 282, 9 . 10 . 1973 , p. 13 .
 (4)  OJ No L 326, 27. 11 . 1973, p . 10.
(5)   OJ No L 96, 6. 4. 1974, p. 11 .
 (6 ) OJ No C 39, 6. 4. 1974, p. 35 .