CELEX: 31971R1608
Language: en
Date: 1971-07-26
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1608/71 of the Commission of 26 July 1971 amending Regulation No 467/67/EEC as regards the processing costs for the various stages of rice processing

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                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1608/71 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                   of 26 July 1971
             amending Regulation No 467/67/EEC as regards the processing costs for the various
                                               stages of rice processing
 THE    COMMISSION       OF    THE  EUROPEAN      COM­         values ; whereas, in that case, the adjustments
MUNITIES,                                                      provided for should not be made since they are
                                                               economically justified only when the price for rice is
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                   greater than that for the broken rice contained
European Economic Community;                                   therein ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No                         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common                       are in accordance with the Opinion of the
organisation of the market in rice, as last amended by         Management Committee for Cereals ;
Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 ,2 and in particular
Article 19 thereof;
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas in Article 2 of Commission Regulation No
467/67/EEC3 of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion
rates, the processing costs and the value of the                                       Article 1
by-products for the various stages of rice processing,
the costs of processing paddy rice into husked rice            The following shall be substituted for Article 2 of
and husked rice into milled rice are fixed at 0-95 and         Regulation No 467/67/EEC :
1-10 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of paddy
or husked rice respectively;                                       '1.   The processing costs to be taken into
                                                                   consideration when paddy rice is converted into
Whereas these costs have increased since they      were            husked rice shall be 1-51 units of account per 100
fixed following a general rise in the prices of    their           kilogrammes of paddy rice.
components ; whereas the amount of these           costs
should be established at an average                 and            2.    The processing costs to be taken into
representative level for the whole Community ;                     consideration when husked rice is converted into
                                                                   milled rice shall be 1-53 units of account per 100
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC                      kilogrammes of husked rice.
provides for adjustments to be made for the
conversion of the value for a quantity of rice into a              3.    The processing costs for the conversion of
value for the same quantity of rice at a different                 semi-milled rice into milled rice shall not be taken
processing stage in order to take account of the                   into consideration .'
quantity of broken rice in that rice; whereas the value
of broken rice for the purpose of those adjustments
has been fixed at 8-00 units of account and 11-00                                      Article 2
units of account per 100 kilogrammes for husked rice
and milled and semi-milled rice respectively; whereas,         The following subparagraph shall be added to Article
however, offers of husked rice and milled and                  4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC :
semi-milled rice are occasionally lower than those
                                                                   'The adjustments provided for in the preceding
                                                                   subparagraph shall not be made when the prices
1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .                                     of husked rice and the prices of milled and
2 OJ No L 164, 22.7.1971, p. 5.                                    semi-milled rice used for fixing the levies and
3 OJ No 204, 24.8.1967, p. 1 .                                     export refunds are lower than :
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    8-0 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of                                  Article 3
    husked rice,
    11-00 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
    semi-milled or milled rice.'                           1971 .
          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States .
          Done at Brussels, 26 July 1971 .
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                                The President
                                                                            Franco M. MALFATTI