31967R1019

320 Official Journal of the European Communities

21.12.67 OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES No 311/13

REGULATION No 1019/67/EEC OF THE COUNCIL

of 19 December 1967

supplementing Regulation No 366/67/EEC laying down general rules for granting export refunds on rice and criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, different processing stage are applied; whereas the general rules for granting export refunds laid down Having regard to the Treaty establishing the in Regulation No 366/67/EEC2 should therefore be European Economic Community ; further defined to ensure that these conversion rates are taken into account, thus avoiding an incorrect Having regard to Council Regulation No application of Article 17 (4) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common 359/67/EEC ; organisation of the market in rice, and in particular Article 17 (5 ) thereof; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;

Whereas Article 17 (4) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC Article 1 provides that the refund applicable to rice and The following Article 5a shall be added to broken rice on the day the application for an export Regulation No 366/67/EEC : licence is made may, at the request of the interested party, be fixed in advance for exports to be effected 'Article 5a at a later date, on condition that it is adjusted on the basis of the threshold price valid for the, month in If the export refund on paddy rice, long-grained which exportation is expected to take place; fully-milled rice or undermilled rice is fixed in advance, the conversion rates determined Whereas threshold prices are fixed only for husked pursuant to Article 19 (a) of Regulation No rice and milled rice; whereas the threshold price for 359/67/EEC shall be taken into account when the the latter is fixed for round-grained rice under the adjustment on the basis of the threshold price in combined provisions of Article 14 (2) and (3 ) and force at the time of exportation required by Article 2 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC; Article 17 (4) of that Regulation is being made.' Whereas the adjustment, on the basis of threshold prices, of a refund fixed in advance for paddy rice or Article 2 undermilled rice and for long-grained milled rice only makes sense if the rates used to convert values This Regulation shall enter into force on the third relating to a quantity of husked or milled rice to a day following its publication in the Official Journal value relating to the same quantity of rice at a 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

1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 . 2 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 34.