COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1423/76  of 21 June 1976  determining standard qualities for rice and broken rice
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice (1), and in particular Articles 4 (5) and 15 (3) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas the target price for husked rice, the intervention price for paddy rice, and the threshold price for broken rice must correspond to specific standard qualities;
Whereas the standard qualities for which those prices are fixed should correspond as far as possible, as regards husked rice and paddy rice, to the average quality of round grain rice harvested in the Community and, as regards broken rice, to the average quality of broken rice usually obtained in the Community industry from home-grown rice;
Whereas, to that end, the norms of the most representative variety produced in the Community should be adopted as the standard qualities of rice, and the quality of broken rice most frequently found in intra-Community trade should be adopted as the standard quality for that product,
The standard quality of husked rice for which the target price is fixed shall be as follows:    (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable quality corresponding to the average quality of common round grain rice harvested within the Community under normal conditions, of a type corresponding to the "Balilla" variety;
(b) moisture content : 15 %;
(c) total percentage of rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality : 7 % by weight, of which:      - paddy grains : 1 %,
- broken rice : 3 %,
- green grains or grains showing natural malformation : 3 %,
(d) tolerance of extraneous matter, consisting of:      - mineral or vegetable inedible substances provided that they are not toxic : 0 701 %;
- extraneous grains or parts thereof, edible : 0 710 %;
(e) yield of wholly milled rice, in whole grains (with a tolerance of 5 % of clipped grains) : 77 750 % by weight, of which : a percentage by weight of wholly milled rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality:      - chalky grains : 3 %,
- grains striated with red : 3 %,
- spotted grains : 1 %,
- stained grains : 0 750 %,
- yellow grains : 0 705 %,
- amber grains : 0 7125 %.
The standard quality of paddy rice for which intervention prices are fixed shall be as follows:    (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable quality corresponding to the average quality of common round grain rice harvested within the Community under normal conditions, of a type corresponding to the "Balilla" variety;  (1)See page 1 of this Official Journal.
(b) moisture content : 14 750 %;
(c) yield of wholly milled rice, in whole grains (with a tolerance of 5 % of clipped grains) : 63 % be weight, of which : a percentage by weight of wholly milled rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality:      - chalky grains : 3 %,
- grains striated with red : 3 %,
- spotted grains : 1 %,
- stained grains : 0 750 %,
- yellow grains : 0 705 %,
- amber grains : 0 7125 %.
The standard quality of broken rice for which the threshold price is fixed shall be as follows:    (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable quality corresponding to the average quality of broken rice obtained from processing husked rice into wholly milled rice in the Community processing industry, of a type corresponding to the "Messagrana" variety;
(b) moisture content : 15 %;
(c) tolerance of extraneous matter consisting of:      - mineral and vegetable inedible substances, provided that they are not toxic : 0 701 %,
- extraneous broken grains or parts thereof, edible : 0 710 %.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the definition of grains and broken grains which are not of unimpaired quality shall be as shown in the Annex.
1. Council Regulation No 362/67/EEC of 25 July 1967 determining standard qualities for rice and broken rice (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1555/71 (2), is hereby repealed.
2. References to the Regulation repealed by paragraph 1 shall be construed as references to the present Regulation.
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1976.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.