CELEX: 31976R0257
Language: en
Date: 1976-02-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 257/76 of 5 February 1976 amending for the fourth time Regulation (EEC) No 2042/75 on special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice

No L 32/ 12                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              6 . 2 . 76
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 257/76
                                                       of 5 February 1976
             amending for the fourth time Regulation ( EEC) No 2042/75 on special detailed
             rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals
                                                             and rice
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      fore a risk that the market will not develop normally,
COMMUNITIES,                                                        particularly in Community production areas ; whereas,
                                                                    in order to reduce that risk, the period of validity of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               import licences should be temporarily reduced to 45
Economic Community,                                                 days ;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC
of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the
                                                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
market in rice ( ! ), as last amended by Regulation                 ment Committee for Cereals,
(EEC) No 668/75 (2), and in particular Article 10 (2)
thereof,
                                                                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2042/75
of 25 July 1975 on special detailed rules for the appli­
cation of the system of import and export licences for                                     Article 1
cereals and rice (3), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 23/76 (4), provided that the period of                     Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2042/75 is hereby
validity of import licences for round and long grain                replaced by the Annex to this Regulation .
rice should last until the end of the second and the
third month respectively following that of issue ;                                         Article 2
Whereas during the first months of the current                      This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
marketing year import licences were issued for very                 publication in the Official Journal of the European
substantial quantities of rice ; whereas there is there­            Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
              Done at Brussels, 5 February 1976.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                                P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No  174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No  L 72, 20 . 3 . 197.5, p. 18 .
(3) OJ No  L 213, 11.8 . 1975, p. 5 .
(4) OJ No  L 4, 9. 1 . 1976, p. 12.
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                                                   ANNEX
                          PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF IMPORT LICENCES
                                               A. For cereals
                  CCT
                                        Description of goods                   Period of validity
               heading No
         10.01 A           Common wheat and mesiin                      45 days
         10.02             Rye                                      \
         10.03             Barley                                    j
         10.04             Oats                                     f
         10.05 B           Maize other than hybrid maize for ?          30 days
                           sowing                                   1
         10.07             Buckwheat, millet, canary seed and grain I
                           sorghum ; other cereals                  '
         10.01 B           Durum wheat                                  30 days
         11.01 A           Wheat or mesiin flour                      \
         11.01 B           Rye flour                                  > 60 days
         11.02 A I         Wheat groats and meal (common wheat )
                           and durum wheat)
                           Other products listed in Article 1 of        Until the end of the fourth
                           Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75                  month     following that of
                                                                        issue
                                                  B. For rice
         10.06 A   I a)    Round grain paddy rice                    j
         10.06 A  II a)    Round grain husked rice                  r
                                                                        45 days
         10.06 B  I a)     Round grain semi-milled rice             y
         10.06 B  Il a)    Round grain wholly milled rice            /
         10.06 A   I b)    Long grain paddy rice                     \
         10.06 A   II b)   Long grain husked rice                    f
                                                                        45 days
         10.06 B  I b)     Long grain semi-milled rice               1
         10.06 B  II b)     Long grain wholly milled rice             J
         10.06 C            Broken rice                                 Until the end of          .e third
                                                                        month     following that of
                                                                        issue
         11.01 F           Rice flour                                 \
         11.02 A VI        Rice groats and meal                      j
         11.02 E  II e) 1   Flaked rice                              \  Until the end of the fourth
                                                                        month     following that of
         11.02 F VI        Rice pellets                               y issue
         11.08 A II        Rice starch                                J