31968R0446

Official Journal of the European Communities 75

No L 91/4 Official Journal of the European Communities 12.4.68

REGULATION (EEC) No 446/68 OF THE COUNCIL

of 9 April 1968

on special intervention measures for rice

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , without this measure being required by the long­ term trend of markets in the Community; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas provision should therefore be made fot preventive measures to enable trade to support the market in those regions for a given period ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/ EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common organisation of the market in rice, and in particular the first Whereas, in view of the uniformity which should subparagraph of Article 6 thereof ; characterise the Community market in rice, such measures should be assessed and decided upon from Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; a Community viewpoint;

Whereas the establishment of a single price system for rice entails replacing national systems of HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : regionalised intervention prices, limited to the terri­ tory of each producer Member State by a uniform Sole Article Community system ; whereas changed patterns of trade between surplus and deficit areas in the If in any region of the Community market prices Community should result therefrom ; show a fall or a weakness which, in the case of rice or certain varieties of rice and in view of the size Whereas it is not yet possible to make a final decision of the harvest or regional stocks and their geographi­ on adapting the market to the new regionalised cal situation, could oblige the intervention agency prices for rice on a Community scale and to the to buy in large quantities, the Member . State disappearance of price zones which had been created concerned may request the Commission to authorise by the barrier of intra-Community levies ; the intervention agency, in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 26 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC, to take special intervention measures Whereas, moreover, harvests of all or several varieties on the paddy rice market in accordance with Article of rice, which in certain regions of the Community 6 of that Regulation. The decision of the Commission differed substantially from the average for previous shall be taken within twelve working days following years, could in those regions temporarily bring about that on which the request was made. a change in market prices not found elsewhere in the Community ; The Member State shall state the reasons for its request and for the measures which it considers Whereas in consequence intervention agencies might should be adopted and shall indicate the intended have to buy in large quantities in certain regions duration of their application .

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

Done at Luxembourg, 9 April 1968 .

For the Council The President

E. FAURE

1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .