CELEX: 31971R1553
Language: en
Date: 1971-07-19 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 of the Council of 19 July 1971 amending Regulation No 359/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in rice

5.60                                 Official Journal of the European Communities
 22.7.71                              Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 164/5
                                   REGULATION (EEC) No 1553 /71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                      of 19 July 1971
                amending Regulation No 359/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in
                                                            rice
  THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       Whereas the threshold price for broken rice was
                                                                 fixed-within an upper limit constituted by the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing thé                   threshold price for husked rice and a lower limit
  European Economic Community;                                   constituted by the threshold price for maize;
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;             Whereas within the framework of the Wheat Trade
                                                                 Convention of 1971 and the Food Aid Convention of
  Having regard to the Opinion of the European
  Parliament;                                                     1971 it was provided that food aid may be given in
                                                                 the form of rice; whereas it should therefore be
 Whereas experience since the entry into force of the            provided that rice and products processed from rice
  common organisation of the market in rice and new              may be made available to a food aid programme;
  facts which have come to light during the first four           whereas these products may be bought on the
  years of its application have shown that certain                Community market, obtained from intervention rice
 adaptations must be made to the system provided for              stocks or manufactured from rice ;
  in respect of that product;
  Whereas corrective amounts, depending on the                   Whereas, since food aid must be supplied urgently, it
  quality of the rice, are provided for in respect of             should be provided that measures on food aid in the
 paddy rice at intervention ; whereas under normal               form of rice shall be applicable without delay before
  market ciflcumstances quality rice can be disposed of           the beginning of the 1971 /72 rice year;
  easily at prices whose differences reflect the
  differences in quality; whereas any measures stating           Whereas the definitions of rice products should be
  what these price differences should be at the                  revised in order to bring them as far as possible into
  intervention stage are likely to distort the free play of       line with those used in world trade, taking into
- supply and demand on the market; whereas, in order              account the characteristics of Community rice;
  to promote the normal disposal of quality rice on the
  market, provision should be made for the
  non-application of the corrective amounts to certain            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  rice varieties at intervention ;
  Whereas the rate of the carry-over payment granted                                     Article 1
  for paddy rice at the end of the crop year was
  calculated on the basis of the target price for husked          Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967
  rice in force in the last month of the marketing year           on the common organisation of the market in rice
   and that in force in the first month of the following          shall be amended as follows .
  year; whereas the target price for husked rice is based
  on factors certain of which are not relevant to price
  formation for paddy rice; whereas the carry-over                                        Article 2
  payment should therefore be calculated on the basis
   of the difference between the intervention prices at           The following shall be substituted for Article 1 (2):
  the end and at the beginning of the marketing year;
                                                                      'For the purposes of this Regulation, paddy rice,
  Whereas, to reflect more closely the differences                    husked rice, semi-milled rice, milled rice,
   between the markets in round-grained rice and
   long-grained rice, the levies on these varieties should
   be calculated on offers recorded for them;                     1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .
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     round-grained rice, long-grained rice, broken rice                  2.      The    Commission      shall  fix  the  levies
      and quellmehl are the products defined in Annex                    provided for in this Article.'
      A. '
                                                                                                Article 6
                             Article 3
The following shall be substituted for the second                     The following shall be substituted for Article 14:
indent of Article 5 (5 ):                                                ' 1 . There shall be fixed for the Community
      '— the corrective amounts applicable to in­                        each year, before 1 May, for the following
             tervention whether for all or for some of                   marketing year;
             the varieties mentioned in the first indent of              — a threshold price for round-grained husked
             the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2).'                        rice;
                                                                         — a threshold price for long-grained husked rice;
                             Article 4
                                                                         — a threshold price for round-grained milled
                                                                               rice;
The following shall be substituted for Article 8 (2)
( b):                                                                    — a threshold price for long-grained milled rice ;
      '( b ) for paddy rice, the difference between the
              intervention price valid for the last month of              2. ( a) The threshold price for round-grained
              the marketing year and that valid for the first                      husked rice shall be fixed in such a way
              month of the next marketing year.'                                   that on the Duisburg market the selling
                                                                                   price for the imported product
                                                                                   corresponds to the target price, after
                              Article 5                                            allowance for differences in quality. That
                                                                                   threshold price shall be subject to the
                                                                                   monthly increases determined for the
The following shall be substituted for Article 11 :                                target price in accordance with the
       ' 1 . A levy shall be charged on imports of rice,                           provisions of Article 7.
       equal :                                                                     It shall be calculated for Rotterdam for the
       ( a) for round-grained paddy rice, to the levy                              same standard quality as the target price
             applicable to round-grained husked rice,                              for husked rice;
             adjusted by the conversion rate;
                                                                               (b) The threshold price for long-grained
        ( b) for long-grained paddy rice, to the levy                              husked rice shall be calculated by
             applicable to long grained husked rice,                                adjusting the threshold price for
              adjusted by the conversion rate;                                     round-grained husked rice by a corrective
   ' (c) for         round-grained     husked    rice,  to   the                    amount representing the differences in
              threshold price less the c.i.f. price for                             value between the variety of round-grained
             round-grained rice ;                                                  rice corresponding to a standard quality
                                                                                    and a variety of rice representative of
       (d) for long-grained husked rice, to the threshold                           Community production.
             price less the c.i.f. price for long-grained rice;
         (e) for round-grained semi-milled rice, to the levy               3.     The threshold price for round-grained
              applicable to round-grained milled rice,                     milled rice and the threshold price for
              adjusted by the conversion rate;                             long-grained milled rice shall be derived from the
                                                                           threshold prices for round-grained husked rice
        (f) for long-grained semi-milled rice, to the levy                 and long-grained husked rice respectively by
              applicable to long-grained milled rice,                      making adjustments for the conversion rate, for
              adjusted by the conversion rate;                             processing costs and for the value of by-products
                                                                           and then by adding an amount for the protection
         (g) for round-grained milled rice, to the threshold               of the industry.
              price less the c.i.f. price for round-grained
              rice;                                                        It shall be calculated for Rotterdam for the same
                                                                           standard qualitites as the respective threshold
         (h) for long-grained milled rice, to the threshold                prices for husked rice.
              price less the c.i.f. price for long-grained rice;
         (i) for broken rice, to the threshold price less the               4.    The Council, acting in accordance with the
              c.i.f. price.                                                 procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
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    Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall                2.      The c.iif. prices shall be calculated for goods
   fix the threshold price for round-grained husked                in bulk on the basis, of the most favourable
   rice and the protective amount mentioned in                     purchasing opportunities on the world market,
    paragraph 3 .                                                  for each of the types of rice listed in paragraph 1 ,
                                                                   taking into account the quotations , or prices on
   5.       The following shall be determined in                   that market adjusted for differences in quality
   accordance with the procedure laid down in                      compared with the standard quality and, for
   Article 26 :                                                     long-grained rice, adjusted for the difference in
                                                                   value between this quality and that representative
    ( a) the variety of long grained rice representative            of Community production and, if need be, for the
         of Community production and the difference                 conversion rate, for processing costs and for the
         in value, for 100 kg of husked rice, between               value of by-products.
         this variety and the variety of round-grained
          rice corresponding to standard quality ;                 3.      Differences in quality shall be expressed by
    (b ) the threshold price for long-grained husked               means of a corrective amount representing the
          rice ;
                                                                   differences in quality and in value between the
                                                                   variety taken as the standard quality and. other
   (c) the threshold price for round-grained milled                varieties .
         rice;
                                                                   4.      Where free quotations on the world market
    (d ) the threshold price for long-grained milled               are not a determining factor for the offer price
          rice .'
                                                                   and where the price is lower than those
                                                                    quotations, a special c.i.f. price calculated on the
                                                                    basis of the offer price shall be substituted, solely
                         Article 7                                 in respect of the imports in question, for the c.i.f.
                                                                   price.
The following shall be substituted for Article 15 :
                                                                   5.      Detailed rules for the application of this
    '1.     A threshold price for broken rice shall be             Article, in particular the corrective amounts, the
   fixed for the Community each year, before 1                     method of calculating c.i.f.' prices, and the margin
   May, for the following marketing year, at a level               within which variations in the factors used for
   between 130% and 140% of the threshold price                    calculating the levy do not entail any alteration of
   for maize valid for the first month of the                      the levy, shall be adopted in accordance with the
    marketing year.                                                 procedure laid down in Article 26.'
   2.      The threshold price for broken rice shall be
   fixed for Rotterdam and for a standard quality.                                          Article 9
   3.      The Council, acting in accordance with the           The following shall be substituted for Article 19 :
   procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the
   Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall                 'The procedure laid down in Article 25 shall
   fix the threshold price for broken rice and the                 apply for determining :
   standard quality for which it shall be fixed.'
                                                                    ( a) the conversion rates between :
                                                                          — husked rice and paddy rice, to be used
                         Article 8                                           when applying Article 4 (3 ), Article 11 ( 1 )
                                                                              ( a) and (b ) and Article 16 (2);
The following shall be substituted for Article 16 :                      — husked rioT and milled rice, to be used
                                                                             when applying ■ Article 14 (3 ) and Article
   '1.      There shall be calculated for Rotterdam :                         16 (2);
   (a) a c.i.f. price for round-grained husked rice;                     — milled rice and semi-milled rice, to be
   (b) a c.i.f. price for long-grained husked rice ;                         used when applying Article 11 ( 1 ) (e) and
                                                                              (f) and Article 16 (2) ;
   (c) a c.i.f. price for round-grained milled rice;
   (d) a c.i.f. price for long-grained milled rice;                ( b) the processing costs and the value of
                                                                         by-products to be used when applying Article
   (e) a c.i.f. price for broken rice ;                                  4 (3 ), Article 14 (3 ) and Article 16 (2).'
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                            Article 10                                       (c) semi-milled rice: paddy rice from which
                                                                                  the husk, part of the germ and the whole
The following Article shall he added to the                                       or part of the outer layers of the pericarp
Regulation :                                                                      but not the inner layers have been
                                                                                  removed;
     'Article 23a
                                                                             (d) milled rice: paddy rice from which the
     1.      Rice and products processed from rice may                            husk, the whole of the. outer and inner
     be made available to food aid programmes where                               layers of the pericarp, the whole of the
    such programmes are provided for in                                           germ in the case of long or semi-long rice
     international conventions or agreements.                                     and at least part of the germ in the case of
                                                                                  round rice have been removed, but in
    The rice or products processed from rice to be                                which longitudinal white striations may
    made available to such programmes shall either                                remain on not more than 10% of the
     be bought on the Community market or be                                      grains ;
    obtained from stocks held by the intervention
     agencies .
                                                                         2. ( a) Round-grained rice: rice of which the
    2 . The conditions in which products may be                                   grains have a length equal to or less than
  , made available, and in particular in which they                               5-2 millimetres and a ratio of length to
    may be bought on the Community market or                                      width of less than 2 ;
    obtained from the stocks of the intervention
    agencies, shall be determined by the Council,                            ( b) Long-grained rice: rice of which the grains
    acting in accordance with the procedure laid                                  have a length greater than 5-2 millimetres ;
    down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a
    proposal from the Commission.                                            (c) Measurement of the grains: grain
                                                                                  measurements are taken on milled rice by
    3.       In exceptional circumstances rice may be                             the following method :
    bought on the world market. Detailed rules for                                  (i) take a representative sample from the
    the application of this paragraph shall be adopted                                  consignment;
    in accordance with the procedure laid dowq in
    Article 26 .'                                                                  (ii) sieve the sample so as to retain only
                                                                                        whole grains ;
                                                                                  (iii) carry    out     two    measurements
                            Article 11                                                  consisting of 100 grains each and find
                                                                                        the average;
The following Article . shall           be added to the                           (iv) express the result in millimetres,
Regulation :                                                                            rounded off to one decimal place.
    'Article 31a
                                                                        3 . Broken rice : grain fragments the length of
    Should transitional measures be necessary they                          which does not exceed three quarters of the
    shall be adopted in              accordance with the                    average length of the whole grain.
    procedure laid down in Article 26.'
                                                                        4. Quellmehl: flour of which the starch has
                                                                            undergone heat treatment or other treatment
                            Article 12                                      thus increasing its swelling capacity.'
The following shall be substituted for Annex A :
                                                                                              Article 13
    ' 1 . ( a) Paddy rice: rice which has retained the
                husk after threshing;                              This Regulation shall enter, into force on the day
          ( b ) Husked rice: paddy rice from which only             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                the husk has been removed. Examples of              European Communities.
                rice falling within this definition are those
                with the commercial descriptions "brown             It shall apply from 1 September 1971 , save as regards
                rice", "cargo rice", "loozain rice" and             Article 10, which shall apply from the date of entry
                "riso sbramato ";                                   into force of this Regulation .
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    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
    States .
    Done at Brussels, 19 July 1971 .
                                                                       For the Council
                                                                        The President
                                                                          L. NATALI