CELEX: 31967R0364
Language: en
Date: 1967-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 364/67/EEC of the Council of 25 July 1967 laying down general rules for intervention on the market in rice

208                                Official Journal of the European Communities
No 174/30                    OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                       31.7.67
                                REGULATION No 364/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                   of 25 July 1967
                           laying down general rules for intervention on the market in rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                                           Article 1
European Economic Community ;
                                                               1 . In pursuance of Article 5 of Regulation No
Having regard to Council Regulation No
                                                               359/67/EEC, all offers for intervention shall be made
359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common
                                                               to an intervention agency in respect of a marketing
organisation of the market in rice, and in particular          centre chosen from among the three centres • nearest
Articles 5 (4) thereof;
                                                               to the place where the paddy rice is when the offer is
                                                               made .
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas the creation of a single market in rice                2.     The nearest marketing centres means the centres
necessitates the        application of       Community       t to which the paddy rice can be transported at the
intervention measures ; whereas Regulation No                  lowest cost. These transport costs shall be determined
359/67/EEC lays down that under certain conditions             by the intervention agency.
the intervention agencies 'must buy in paddy rice
which is offered to them ;
                                                                                       Article 2
Whereas the implementation of Community
intervention measures requires takeover to be effected
by intervention agencies under conditions which take           1 . The intervention agencies shall decide on the
account of the regionalisation of prices ; whereas to          place where the paddy rice is to be taken over.
this end the price to be paid to the seller must be the
intervention price valid at a given marketing centre           2. If the intervention agency does not take over the
less, where appropriate, transport costs ;
                                                               paddy rice at the marketing centre specified by the
                                                               seller but at the place where the paddy rice is located,
Whereas, in order that the intervention system can             the price to be paid shall be equal to the intervention
function as simply and effectively as possible, the            price valid for the marketing centre indicated by the
number of marketing centres in respect of which offers         seller, less the most advantageous transport costs
 can be made from a given locality should be limited ;          between the place where the paddy rice is when the
                                                                offer is made and the marketing centre. These costs
Whereas paddy rice held by the intervention agencies            shall be determined by the intervention agency.
 should be put on sale without discrimination
 between buyers established in the Community and at            3 . If the intervention agency takes over the paddy
 price levels which do not hinder the normal                    rice elsewhere than at the marketing centre indicated
 development of market prices in the Community;                 by the seller and elsewhere than at the place where
 whereas the tendering procedure best serves that end;          the paddy rice is when the offer is made, the cost of
                                                                transport from the place where the paddy rice is to
                                                                the place where it is taken over shall be borne by the
                                                                intervention agency. In that case the price to be paid
                                                                to the seller shall be determined in accordance with
 1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .                                 paragraph 2.
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                       Article 3                              3.    If the tenders submitted do not reach the actual
                                                              market value the invitation to tender shall be
1 . Paddy rice held by the intervention agency shall          cancelled .
be disposed of by invitation to tender :
                                                                                         Article 4
(a) with a view to its being re-marketed, on the basis
    of price conditions which are determined before
    the beginning of the season and are such as will          The Council, acting in accordance with the voting
    not cause a deterioration of the market;                  procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty
                                                              on a proposal from the Commission, may establish
(b) with a view to export on the basis of price               selling procedures other than those laid down in
    conditions to be determined case by case                  Article 3 , if special circumstances require.
    according to market trends and requirements.
2.   The terms of the invitation to tender shall                                         Article 5
ensure equal access and equal treatment for all
persons concerned irrespective of the place of their          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
establishment in the Community.                               1967.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 25 July 1967.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                   H. HOECHERL