CELEX: 31973R1962
Language: en
Date: 1973-07-17 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1962/73 of the Council of 17 July 1973 determining for the 1973/74 marketing year the threshold prices for husked rice and broken rice and the protective amount to be included in the threshold price for milled rice

21 . 7. 73                          Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 201 /1
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                                         (Acts whose publication is obligatory)'
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1962/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 17 July 1973
              determining for the 1973/74 marketing year the threshold prices for husked rice
              and broken rice and the protective amount to be included in the threshold price                 ~~
                                                    for milled rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas Article 14(3) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC
COMMUNITIES,                                                   provides that the threshold prices for milled rice are
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          to be derived from the threshold prices of husked rice
Economic Community ;                                           to which an amount for the protection of the industry
                                                               is to be added ; whereas, in view of the situation of the
Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/                    Community rice industry, it appears appropriate to
67/EEC (1) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­             maintain during the 1973/74 marketing year the
tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Act         protective amount operative during 1972/73 ;
of Accession (2), and in particular Articles 14 (4) and
1 5 (3) thereof ;
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
Whereas Article 14(2) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC                                     Article 1
provides that the threshold price for husked rice must
be fixed in such a way that the selling price of
                                                               This Regulation shall apply during the 1973/74 rice
                                                               marketing year.
imported husked rice on the Duisburg market corres­
ponds to the target price ; whereas this object can be                                Article 2
attained by deducting from the target price certain
standard costs, in particular transhipment costs and           The threshold price for round-grained husked rice
transport costs between Rotterdam and Duisburg,                shall be 20-90 units of account per 100 kilogrammes.
which are usually incurred when the products are
imported ;                                                                            Article 3
Whereas Article 15(1 ) of Regulation No 359/67EEC              The threshold price for broken rice shall be 13 085
provides that the threshold price for broken rice* must        units of account per 100 kilogrammes.
be fixed between a lower and an upper limit calcu­
lated in relation to the threshold price for maize ;                                  Article 4
whereas, in view of that relationship and of the need
to import broken rice in order to ensure supplies for          The amount to be included in the threshold price for
the Community, that threshold price should be fixed            milled rice for the protection of the industry shall be
at a level corresponding in round figures to the lower         0-55 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes of milled
limit :                                                        rice .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 17 July 1973.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                          lb FREDERIKSEN
(•) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.