CELEX: 31973R1731
Language: en
Date: 1973-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1731/73 of the Commission of 29 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 176/8                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            30 . 6. 73
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1731/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                          of 29 June 1973
                                           fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                           of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
COMMUNITIES,                                                             relation to the Community currencies referred to
                                                                         in the previous subparagraph ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                                 Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was
                                                                     requested ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/
67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                   Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                   provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /73
Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                to the offer prices and today's quotations known to
new Member States to the European Economic                           the Commission that the levies at present in force
Community and the European Atomic Energy                             should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                    this Regulation ;
and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ;
Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1 121 /73 (4) and
subsequent amending Regulations ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,
levies should be calculated on the following basis :                 The import levies to be charged on the products listed
                                                                     in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
— in the case of currencies which are maintained in
                                                                     67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
      relation to each other, at any given moment,                   annexed to this Regulation .
      within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based
      on their effective parity ;
                                                                                             Article 2
— for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
      arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each               This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1973.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
                Done at Brussels, 29 June 1973 .
                                                                                For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                           Member of the Commission
 (') O | No 174, 31 . 7 . 1 967, p . 1 .
 (-') O'l No L 7.5, 27 . 3 . 1972, p . I­
 (*) O'j No L 7 17. }>. 1972, p. 5 .
 (-») O'l No L IIS, I. ,S. 1973, p. 7.
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                                                                     ANNEX
              to the Commission Regulation of 29 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                                 (u.a.1100 kg)
             CCT                                                                                                 Third           AASM/
           heading                                       Description of goods                                  countries      OCT « m
             No
      10.0*                             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
                                        B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                             I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                a) Round grained                                                  0                  0
                                                b) Long grained                                                 4-683             1-924
                                            II. Wholly milled rice :
                                                a) Round grained                                                  0                  0
                                                b) Long grained                                                 5-020             2-069
                                        C. Broken rice                                                            0                  0
      (i) 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
      ft This lerr it applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70.