CELEX: 31974R1999
Language: en
Date: 1974-07-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1999/74 of the Council of 29 July 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 243/73 laying down general rules for the system of compensatory amounts for rice and fixing these amounts for certain products

31 . 7 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 209/5
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 1999/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 29 July 1974
              amending Regulation (EEC) No 243/73 laying down general rules for the system
              of compensatory amounts for rice and fixing these amounts for certain products
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       compensatory amounts in respect of husked rice and
COMMUNITIES,                                                      by applying the coefficients referred to in Commis­
                                                                  sion Regulation No 467/67/ EEC (3) of 21 August 1967
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             fixing the conversion rates, the processing costs and
Economic Community ;                                              the value of the by-products for the various stages of
Having regard to the Treaty concerning the accession              rice-processing, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
of new Member States to the European Economic                     1808/74 (4) ;
Community and to the European Atomic Energy                       Whereas for the sake of consistency as regards the
Community, ( 5 ) and in particular Articles 55 (6) and            rules governing the calculations in question for rice,
62(1 ) of the Act annexed thereto ;                               the amount to be applied as the compensatory
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;               amount for paddy rice should also be derived from
                                                                  that which is fixed for husked rice,
Whereas Article 5 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
243/73 (2) of 31 January 1973 laying down general
rules for the system of compensatory amounts for rice             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
and fixing these amounts for certain products provides
that for paddy rice, semi-milled or milled rice the                                        Article 1
amount applicable by way of compensatory amount,
when the levy is less than the compensatory amount                The text of Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
for the product in question, is to be determined by               243/73 shall be replaced by the following :
the Commission by applying the scale set out in the                   '2. For paddy rice, semi-milled or milled rice the
Annex to that Regulation ; whereas it has been found                  amounts applicable by way of compensatory
that this method of determining the amount appli­                     amount shall be determined by the Commission
cable by way of compensatory amount for these types                   with the help of the coefficients set out in Regula­
of rice may lead to distortions of competition ;                      tion No 467/67/ EEC and for husked rice by refer­
whereas milled rice imported from third countries as                  ence to the variations in the amount or amounts
from the original Member States may be marketed in                    determined pursuant to the first paragraph.'
the new Member States at a price lower than the cost
price of husked rice imported and processed locally ;                                      Article 2
whereas to remedy this situation the amount appli­
cable by way of compensatory amount should be deter­              This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
mined for paddy rice, semi-milled and milled rice by              following its publication in the Official Journal of
reference to the amounts applicable by way of                      the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 July 1974.
                                                                              For the Council
                                                                                 The President
                                                                                B. DESTREMAU
(>) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14.                            (3) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 29, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 26.                               (4) OJ No L 188 , 12. 7. 1974, p. 34.