CELEX: 51989PC0660(12)
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) FIXING PRICES FOR RICE FOR THE 1990/91 MARKETING YEAR

No C 49/16                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                         28. 2. 90
                                                            Proposal for a
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                                 of . . .
                                       fixing prices for rice for the 1990/91 marketing year
                                                            (90/C 49/12)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                 Whereas, for the products referred to in this Regulation, the
                                                                          application of the criteria for the fixing of the various prices
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                     and the application of the measures provided for in respect of
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                          the exchange rates to be applied in agriculture entail fixing
thereof,                                                                  those prices at the levels indicated below;
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,             Whereas, under Article 68 of the Act of Accession of Spain
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, pursuant to
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                        Article 70 (1) of the Act, those prices should be aligned with
                                                                          the common prices in annual steps at the beginning of each
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,                  marketing year; whereas the rules on this alignment laid
                                                                          down give the Spanish prices set out below,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,
                                                                          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Article 3 (3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
1418 / 76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the
                                                                                                      Article 1
market in rice( 1 ), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1806/89 ( 2 ), provides that the intervention and target               For the 1990/91 marketing year, prices for rice shall be as
prices are to be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid              follows:
down in Article 43 of the Treaty;
                                                                          1. Community of Ten:
Whereas the markets and prices policy, based on modern                         (a) intervention price,
farms^ is the main instrument of the incomes policy in                              paddy rice:                  ECU 314,19 per tonne;
agriculture; whereas full advantage cannot be drawn from                       (b) target price, husked rice: ECU 546,88 per tonne.
such a policy unless it is integrated into the common
                                                                          2. Spain:
agricultural policy as a whole, including a dynamic social and
structural policy and the application of the rules on                          (a) intervention price,
competition contained in the Treaty,                                                paddy rice:                  ECU 292,41 per tonne;
                                                                               (b) target price, husked rice: ECU 546,88 per tonne.
Whereas the intervention price for paddy rice must be fixed 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;                                               Article 2
                                                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
Whereas the target price for husked rice must be derived                  following its publication in the Official Journal of the
from the intervention price for paddy rice in accordance                  European Communities.
with the criteria set out in Article 4 (3) of Regulation (EEC)
No 1418/76;                                                               It shall apply from 1 September 1990.
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, . . .
                                                                                                 For the Council
(•) OJ No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1.
(2) OJNoL 177,24. 6. 1989, p. 1.