CELEX: 31973R2177
Language: en
Date: 1973-08-10 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2177/73 of the Commission of 9 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 222/ 10                              Official Journal of the European Communities                            10 . 8 . 73
                               REGULATION (EEC) No 2177/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                         of 9 August 1973
                                           fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
COMMUNITIES,                                                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                        of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                   relation to the Community currencies referred to
Economic Community ;                                                    in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                         Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
67/EEC ( ! ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /73
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                  to the offer prices and today's quotations known to
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of               the Commission that "the levies at present in force
new Member States to the European Economic                          should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to
Community and the European Atomic Energy                            this Regulation ;
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
Committee ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice
were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1 121 /73 (4) and                 The import levies to be charged on the products listed
subsequent amending Regulations ;                                    in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
                                                                     67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                 annexed to this Regulation .
levies should be calculated on the following basis :
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                          Article 2
     relation to each other, at any given moment,
    within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based              This Regulation shall enter into force on 10 August
    on their effective parity ;                                      1973 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 9 August 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. 1973, p. 7.
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                                                                      ANNEX
                  to the Commission Regulation of 9 August 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                                (m .a . / 100 kg)
                CCT                                                                                              Third          AASM /
             heading                                      Description of goods                                 countries       OCT (») C)
                No
         10 Of!                           Rice :
                                           A. 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
                                           H. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                               I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grained                                                0                 0
                                                   b) Long grained                                               4-487            1-816
                                              11 . Wholly milled rice :
                                                   a) Round grained                                                0                 0
                                                   b) Long grained                                               4-810            1-953
                                           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
            products 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.