Document ID: 31995R3073

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 3073/95
of 22 December 1995
determining the standard quality of rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3072 of 22 December 1995 on the common organization of the market in rice (1), and in particular Article 3 (1) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the intervention price for paddy rice should correspond to a specific standard quality; whereas that quality is determined by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 of 21 June 1976 determining standard qualities for rice and broken rice (2);
Whereas, with regard to quality, trends in demand for rice on the Community market as well as the guidelines followed in the reform of the common organization of the market make it appropriate to re-determine the standard quality taking account of both the quality characteristics of Community production and the most representative qualities of imported rice; whereas it follows from those factors as well as other factors in the reform of the common organization of the market that requirements should be made more stringent and the system provided for by the abovementioned Regulation should be replaced,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The standard quality of paddy rice for which the intervention price is fixed shall be defined as follows:
(a) rice of a sound and fair marketable quality, free of odour;
(b) moisture content: 14 % in 1996/97 and 13 % from 1997/98 onwards;
(c) yield of wholly milled rice 63 % by weight in whole grains (with a tolerance of 3 % of clipped grains) of which a percentage by weight of wholly milled rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality:
TABLE
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definition of grains which are not of unimpaired quality shall be as shown in the Annex.
Article 3
Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 is hereby repealed. References to Regulation (EEC) No 1423/76 shall be taken as references to this Regulation.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September 1996.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 December 1995
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