CELEX: 31968R0446
Language: en
Date: 1968-04-09 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 446/68 of the Council of 9 April 1968 on special intervention measures for rice

Official Journal of the European Communities                                    75
No L 91/4                           Official Journal of the European Communities                              12.4.68
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 446/68 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 9 April 1968
                                     on special intervention measures for rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      without this measure being required by the long­
                                                               term trend of markets in the Community;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community ;                                  Whereas provision should therefore be made fot
                                                               preventive measures to enable trade to support the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/                 market in those regions for a given period ;
EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common organisation
of the market in rice, and in particular the first             Whereas, in view of the uniformity which should
subparagraph of Article 6 thereof ;                            characterise the Community market in rice, such
                                                               measures should be assessed and decided upon from
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;            a Community viewpoint;
Whereas the establishment of a single price system
for rice entails replacing national systems of
regionalised intervention prices, limited to the terri­        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tory of each producer Member State by a uniform
Community system; whereas changed patterns of                                       Sole Article
trade between surplus and deficit areas in the                 If in any region of the Community market prices
Community should result therefrom ;                            show a fall or a weakness which, in the case of rice
                                                               or certain varieties of rice and in view of the size
Whereas it is not yet possible to make a final decision        of the harvest or regional stocks and their geographi­
on adapting the market to the new regionalised                 cal situation, could oblige the intervention agency
prices for rice on a Community scale and to the                to buy in large quantities, the Member . State
 disappearance of price zones which had been created           concerned may request the Commission to authorise
 by the barrier of intra-Community levies ;                    the intervention agency, in accordance with the
                                                               procedure provided for in Article 26 of Regulation
Whereas, moreover, harvests of all or several varieties        No 359/67/EEC, to take special intervention measures
of rice, which in certain regions of the Community             on the paddy rice market in accordance with Article
 differed substantially from the average for previous          6 of that Regulation. The decision of the Commission
years, could in those regions temporarily bring about          shall be taken within twelve working days following
a change in market prices not found elsewhere in               that on which the request was made.
the Community ;                                                The Member State shall state the reasons for its
                                                               request and for the measures which it considers
Whereas in consequence intervention agencies might             should be adopted and shall indicate the intended
have to buy in large quantities in certain regions             duration of their application .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Luxembourg, 9 April 1968 .
                                                                                          For the Council
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                             E. FAURE
 1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .