CELEX: 31985R1497
Language: en
Date: 1985-05-23 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1497/85 of 23 May 1985 fixing rice prices for the 1985/86 marketing year

No L 151 / 22                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                        10 . 6 . 85
                                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1497 / 85
                                                               of 23 May 1985
                                             fixing rice prices for the 1985 / 86 marketing year
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                  with the criteria set out in Article 4 ( 3 ) of Regulation (EEC )
                                                                           No 1418 / 76 ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community , and in particular Article 43                          Whereas , for the products referred to in this Regulation , the
thereof,                                                                   application of the criteria for the fixing of the different prices
                                                                           and the application of the measures provided for in respect of
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC ) No 1418 / 76 of                the exchange rates to be applied in agriculture entail fixing
21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in                   those prices at the levels indicated below ,
rice ( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC ) No
1025 / 84 ( 2 ), and in particular Article 3 ( 3 ) thereof,
                                                                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ( 3 ),
Having       regard     to    the    opinion   of the     European                                      Article 1
Parliament ( 4 ),
                                                                           For the 1985 / 86 marketing year , the rice prices shall be as
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern                     follows :
farms , is the main instrument of the incomes policy in
agriculture ; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from                  ( a) intervention price , paddy rice : 314,19 ECU per
such a policy unless it is integrated into the common                            tonne ;
agricultural policy as a whole , including a dynamic social and
structural policy and the application of the rules on                      ( b ) target price , husked rice : 548,37 ECU per tonne .
competition contained in the Treaty ;
Whereas the intervention price for paddy rice must be fixed at                                         Article 2
a rate which takes simultaneous account of the policy in
respect of rice production and the use of rice and of improved             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
farm incomes ;                                                             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                           European Communities.
Whereas the target price for husked rice should be derived
from the intervention price for paddy rice , in accordance                 It shall apply from 1 September 1985 .
                     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                     States .
                     Done at Brussels , 23 May 1985 .
                                                                                            For the Council
                                                                                              The President
                                                                                             C. SIGNORILE
(>)  OJ   No L 166, 25 . 6.-1976 , - p. 1 .
(2)  OJ   No L 107 , 19 . 4 . 1984 , p. 13
(3)  OJ   No C 67 , 14 . 3 . 1985 , p. 9 .
(4 ) OJ   No C 94 , 15 . 4 . 1985 .