CELEX: 31973R2488
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-14 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2488/73 of the Commission of 13 September 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

No L 257/ 10                                Official Journal of the European Communities                             14 . 9 . 73
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 2488 /73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                           of 13 September 1973
                                                 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                         — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the
  COMMUNITIES,                                                                arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each
                                                                              of these currencies recorded for a given period, in
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       relation to the Community currencies referred to
  Economic Community ;                                                        in the previous subparagraph ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                             Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other
  67/EEC (!) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­                      provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2365/73
  tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the                      to the offer prices and today's quotations known to
  Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of                   the Commission that the levies at present in force
  new Member States to the European Economic                              should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to
  Community and the European Atomic Energy                                this Regulation ;
  Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972,
  and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ;
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
  Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary
  Committee ;
                                                                                                  Article 1
  Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice
  were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2365/73 (4) and                       The import levies to be charged on the products listed
  subsequent amending Regulations ;                                       in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/
                                                                          67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table
  Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally,                     annexed to this Regulation .
  levies should be calculated on the following basis :
  — in the case of currencies which are maintained in                                             Article 2
        relation to each other, at any given moment,
        within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based                This Regulation shall enter into force on              14
        on their effective parity ;                                       September 1973 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States .
                  Done at Brussels, 13 September 1973 .
                                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                                Member of the Commission
   (')  OJ  No  174 , 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 .
;  (-)  OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1 972 , p . 14 .
!  (3 ) OJ  No  L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p . S.
\   4)  OJ  No  L 245 , I. 9 . 1973 , p . 7 .
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                                                                     ANNEX
               to the Commission Regulation of 13 September 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice
                                                                                                                               (iu . a J100 kg)
             CCT                                                                                                Third           AASM /
            heading                                      Description of goods                                 countries      OCT o (·)
              No
       1006                              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
                                         W. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice :
                                              I. Semi-milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                0                    0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                 0                    0
                                             II . Wholly milled rice :
                                                  a) Round grained                                                0                    0
                                                  b) Long grained                                                 0                    0
                                         C. Broken rice                                                           0                    0
       (•) Regulation (EEC) No 521 /70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas department* of
           products originating in the AASM and OCT.
       M Thi« levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70 .