31967R1018

318 Official Journal of the European Communities

No 311 / 12 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 21.12.67

REGULATION No 1018/67/EEC OF TOE COUNCIL of 19 December 1967

supplementing Regulation No 365/67/EEC on rules for the advance fixing of levies on rice and broken rice

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , prices are not fixed for husked rice and milled rice; whereas for the latter product the threshold price is fixed for round-grained rice in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community; Whereas, therefore, the adjustment for the threshold price of the levy fixed in advance for paddy rice and Having regard to Council Regulation No semi-milled rice, as well as for long-grained milled 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common rice, is relevant only if the conversion rates are organisation of the market in rice, and in particular applied to the calculation of the levy itself; whereas Article 13 (2) thereof; the rules for the advance fixing of levies laid down by Regulation No 365/67/EEC2 should therefore be clarified to avoid a misapplication of Article 13 (2) Having regard to the proposal from the Commission; of Regulation No 359/67/EEC consisting of a failure to apply these conversion rates ;

Whereas Article 13 (2) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC provides that the levy applicable to rice and broken HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : rice on the day on which the application for an import licence is made, adjusted for the threshold price which will be in force during the expected Article 1 month of importation, may be fixed in advance for an import to be effected at a later date if the party concerned so requests ; The following Article 9a shall be added to Regulation No 365/67/EEC :

Whereas the levies on paddy rice and semi-milled rice 'Article 9a are not fixed by comparison with a threshold price and a c.i.f. price for these products but are derived from the levies on husked rice and milled rice 1 . Where an import levy on paddy rice, respectively, adjusted by a conversion rate; whereas, long-grained milled rice or semi-milled rice is moreover, the levy on milled rice is fixed for fixed in advance, the adjustment for the threshold round-grained rice with the result that the levy to be price which will be in force at the time of applied to imported milled or semi-milled importation provided for in Article 13 (2) of long-grained rice must be derived from the levy valid Regulation No 359/67/EEC shall be made on the for the corresponding round-grained rice products basis of the conversion rates fixed in application and adjusted by a conversion rate; whereas threshold of Article 19 (a) of that Regulation.

1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 . 2 OJ No 174, . 31.7.1967, p. 32.

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2. Detailed rules for the application of Article 2 paragraph 1 shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of This Regulation shall enter into force on the third Regulation No 359/67/EEC.' day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 19 December 1967.

For the Council

The President

H. HOECHERL