CELEX: 31973R0728
Language: en
Date: 1973-03-16 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 728/73 of the Commission of 15 March 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

No L 69/ 16                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           16 . 3 . 73
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 728/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                       of 15 March 1973
                       fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    latter by more than 0 025 unit of account per 100
COMMUNITIES,                                                      kilogrammes ;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­                Whereas the cif price is that determined in accor­
pean Economic Community ;                                         dance with Article 16 of Regulation No
                                                                  359/67/EEC ; whereas the cif forward delivery
Having regard to Council Regulation No                            price is that determined in accordance with Article 3
359/67/EEC (*) of 25 July 1967 on the common or­                   (2 ) of Regulation No 365/67/EEC (6), as last
ganization of the market in rice, as last amended by              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2435/70 (7),
the Act (2 ) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Acces­              based, in respect of each month for which the ex­
sion of new Member States to the European Eco­                    port licence is valid, on the cif price calculated on
nomic Community and the European Atomic Energy                    the basis of offers for shipment during the month of
Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,                 exportation ;
and in particular the first subparagraph of Article
17 (4) thereof ;                                                  Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally,
                                                                  refunds should be calculated on the basis of an
Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary                      exchange rate which is based, in the case of currencies
Committee ;                                                       which are floating or whose central rate differs from
                                                                  the official parity, on the effective rate or the
Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 17 (4) of               central rate of these currencies and, in the case of
Regulation No 359/67/EEC provides that the export                 the US dollar, on the change in parity announced
refund applicable to rice and broken rice on the day              on 13 February 1973 ;
on which application for an export licence is made,
adjusted for the threshold price which will be in                 Whereas it follows from applying all these provi­
force during the month of exportation, must be ap­                sions that the corrective amount applicable on
plied on request to exports to be effected during the              16 March 1973 must be fixed as shown in the
period of validity of the licence ;                               Table annexed to this Regulation ;
Whereas Regulation No 474/67/EEC (4), as amended                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regu­
by Regulation (EEC ) No 1397/68 (5), lays down de­                 lation are in accordance with the Opinion of the
                                                                   Management Committee for Cereals ;
tailed rules for the advance fixing of the export re­
fund on rice and broken rice ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas that Regulation provides that the refund                                            Article 1
applicable on the day on which application for an
export licence is made must, when it is fixed in ad­              The corrective amount referred to in Article 17 (4)
vance, be reduced by an amount no greater than the                of Regulation No 359/67/EEC which is applicable
difference between the cif forward delivery price                 to the export refunds fixed in advance in respect of
and the cif price, where the former exceeds the lat­              rice and broken rice is hereby fixed as shown in the
ter by more than 0·025 unit of account per 100 kilo­              Table annexed to this Regulation.
grammes ; whereas, on the other hand, the refund
                                                                                             Article 2
must be increased by an amount no greater than the
difference between the cif price and the cif for­                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 16 March
ward delivery price, where the former exceeds the                 1973 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 15 March 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 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p . 20 .                             (6) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 32.
(s) OJ No L 222, 10. 9. 1968, p. 6.                                ( 7) OJ No L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p. 1 .
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                                                                                ANNEX
                            to the Commission Regulation of 15 March 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable
                                                                to the refund on rice and broken rice (*)
                                                                                                                                                (.u.a. /100 kg
                                                                                         1st          2nd       3rd                 4th            5 th
       CCT                                                              Current
      heading                     Description of goods                                 period        period   period              period          period
        No                                                                3               4            5           6                 7              8
10.06                Rice :
                     A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :
                           I. Paddy rice :
                               a) Round grained
                               b) Long grained
                          II . Husked rice :
                               a) Round grained
                               b) Long grained
                     B. Semi-milled or wholly milled
                          rice :
                           I. Semi-milled rice :
                               a) Round grained
                               b) Long grained
                          II. Wholly milled rice :
                               a) Round grained
                               b) Long grained
                     C. Broken rice
(*) Advance fixing of the refunds is suspended in accordance with Regulation (EEC) No 646/73 ( OJ No L 61 , 7. .3 . 1973 , p. 17), as amended by Regulation
    (EEC ) No 701 /73 ( OJ No L 67 , 14 . 3 . 1973 , p. 17).