CELEX: 31967R0369
Language: en
Date: 1967-07-25 00:00:00
Title: Regulation No 369/67/EEC of the Council of 25 July 1967 laying down rules for determining rice marketing centres other than Arles and Vercelli

218                                  Official Journal of the European Communities
No 174/38                       OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES                                           31.7.67
                                 REGULATION No 369/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL
                                                        of 25 July 1967
                 laying down rules for determining rice marketing centres other than Aries and Vercelli
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                          dispose of it under the best conditions ; whereas
                                                                   centres which have an adequate infrastructure and
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                      are situated in an area which has sufficient transport
European Economic Community ;                                      facilities should be used;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common
 organisation of the market in rice, and in particular                                     Article 1
 Article 4 (5 ) thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;                 The main marketing centres in surplus areas to be
                                                                   determined in pursuance of Article 4 (5 ) of
                                                                   Regulation No 359/67/EEC must fulfil the following
Whereas     in    accordance     with  Article   4 (3 )    of      conditions :
Regulation No 359/67/EEC intervention prices for
Aries and Vercelli are fixed so that the differences               ( a) existence of storage depots with enough technical
between them and between the intervention price and                     equipment for a sufficiently large amount of
the target price reflect the disparities which, given a                 paddy rice to be regularly taken over, treated for
normal harvest, arise under normal conditions of                        storage and delivered ;
price formation on the market and allow the free
movement of rice within the Community                      in      (b) a favourable transport situation for the taking
accordance with market requirements ;                                   over and, above all, the disposal of the rice.
Whereas the marketing centres to be determined by                                          Article 2
the Commission must be situated only in surplus
areas; whereas account should therefore be taken, in               The Council, acting on a report from the
determining them, of the supply situation for rice                 Commission, shall review annually the results of the
within the Community and in particular of the fact                 application of Article 1 .
that rice production is largely concentrated in two
very limited areas;
                                                                                          Article 3
Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the
intervention system, the marketing centres must be in              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
a position to stock large quantities of rice and to                1967 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels , 25 July 1967.
                                                                                         For the Council
                                                                                           The President
                                                                                          H. HOECHERL
1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p . 1 .