CELEX: 51989PC0040(07)
Language: en
Date: 1989-01-31
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING RICE PRICES FOR THE 1989/90 MARKETING YEAR

3. 4. 89                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                  No C 82/9
                                                            Proposal for a
                                              COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No ...
                                                                 of...
                                         fixing rice prices for the 1989/90 marketing year
                                                             (89/C 82/07)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               prices and the application of the measures provided for in
                                                                       respect of the exchange rates to be applied in agriculture
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                       entail fixing those prices at the levels indicated below;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and of                  Whereas under Article 68 of the Act of Accession of Spain
Portugal, and in particular Article 89(1) thereof,                     and Portugal prices in Spain have been set at a level
                                                                       differing from that of the common prices; whereas
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of                pursuant to Article 70(1) of the Act these prices should be
21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in               aligned with the common prices in annual steps at the
rice (r), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No ... (2), and          beginning of each marketing year; whereas the rules on this
in particular Article 3(3) thereof,                                    alignment laid down give the Spanish prices set below,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
                                                                                                 Article 1
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,
                                                                       For the 1989/90 marketing year, rice prices shall be as
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern                 follows :
farms, is the main instrument of the incomes policy in
agriculture; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from               I. Community      of Ten
such a policy unless it is integrated into the common
                                                                           (a) intervention price, paddy rice: 314,19 ecus per
agricultural policy as a whole, including a dynamic social
                                                                               tonne;
and structural policy and the application of the rules on
competition contained in the Treaty;                                       (b)target price, husked rice: 546,88 ecus per tonne.
Whereas the intervention price for paddy rice must be fixed
                                                                       II. Spain
at a rate which takes account of the policy in respect of rice
production with a view to the uses to which it is put;                     (a) intervention price, paddy rice: 281,52 ecus per
                                                                               tonne;
Whereas the target price for husked rice must be derived
from the intervention price for paddy rice, in accordance                  (b) target price, husked rice: 546,88 ecus per tonne.
with the criteria set out in Article 4(3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1418/76;
                                                                                                  Article 2
Whereas, for the products referred to in this Regulation,
the application of the criteria for the fixing of the different        This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                       European Communities.
(i) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.
(2) See page 8 of this Official Journal.                               It shall apply with effect from 1 September 1989.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
                Done at...
                                                                                       For the Council