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22.7.71 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 164/ 5

REGULATION (EEC) No 1553 /71 OF THE COUNCIL

of 19 July 1971

amending Regulation No 359/67/EEC on the common organisation of the market in rice

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Whereas the threshold price for broken rice was fixed-within an upper limit constituted by the Having regard to the Treaty establishing thé threshold price for husked rice and a lower limit European Economic Community ; constituted by the threshold price for maize;

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; Whereas within the framework of the Wheat Trade Convention of 1971 and the Food Aid Convention of Having regard to the Opinion of the European 1971 it was provided that food aid may be given in Parliament ; the form of rice ; whereas it should therefore be Whereas experience since the entry into force of the provided that rice and products processed from rice common organisation of the market in rice and new may be made available to a food aid programme; facts which have come to light during the first four whereas these products may be bought on the years of its application have shown that certain Community market, obtained from intervention rice adaptations must be made to the system provided for stocks or manufactured from rice ; in respect of that product; Whereas, since food aid must be supplied urgently, it Whereas corrective amounts, depending on the should be provided that measures on food aid in the quality of the rice, are provided for in respect of form of rice shall be applicable without delay before paddy rice at intervention ; whereas under normal the beginning of the 1971 /72 rice year; market ciflcumstances quality rice can be disposed of easily at prices whose differences reflect the differences in quality; whereas any measures stating Whereas the definitions of rice products should be what these price differences should be at the revised in order to bring them as far as possible into intervention stage are likely to distort the free play of line with those used in world trade, taking into - supply and demand on the market; whereas, in order account the characteristics of Community rice; to promote the normal disposal of quality rice on the market, provision should be made for the non-application of the corrective amounts to certain HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : rice varieties at intervention ;

Whereas the rate of the carry-over payment granted Article 1 for paddy rice at the end of the crop year was calculated on the basis of the target price for husked Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 rice in force in the last month of the marketing year on the common organisation of the market in rice and that in force in the first month of the following shall be amended as follows . year; whereas the target price for husked rice is based on factors certain of which are not relevant to price formation for paddy rice; whereas the carry-over Article 2 payment should therefore be calculated on the basis of the difference between the intervention prices at The following shall be substituted for Article 1 (2): the end and at the beginning of the marketing year; 'For the purposes of this Regulation, paddy rice, Whereas, to reflect more closely the differences husked rice, semi-milled rice, milled rice, between the markets in round-grained rice and long-grained rice, the levies on these varieties should be calculated on offers recorded for them; 1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 .

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round-grained rice, long-grained rice, broken rice 2 . The Commission shall fix the levies and quellmehl are the products defined in Annex provided for in this Article.' A. '

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The following shall be substituted for Article 14: The following shall be substituted for the second indent of Article 5 (5 ): ' 1 . There shall be fixed for the Community each year, before 1 May, for the following '— the corrective amounts applicable to in­ tervention whether for all or for some of marketing year; the varieties mentioned in the first indent of — a threshold price for round-grained husked the second subparagraph of Article 5 (2).' rice ;

— a threshold price for long-grained husked rice; Article 4 — a threshold price for round-grained milled rice ; The following shall be substituted for Article 8 (2) ( b ): — a threshold price for long-grained milled rice ;

'( b ) for paddy rice, the difference between the 2. ( a) The threshold price for round-grained intervention price valid for the last month of husked rice shall be fixed in such a way the marketing year and that valid for the first that on the Duisburg market the selling month of the next marketing year.' price for the imported product corresponds to the target price, after allowance for differences in quality. That Article 5 threshold price shall be subject to the monthly increases determined for the The following shall be substituted for Article 11 : target price in accordance with the ' 1 . A levy shall be charged on imports of rice, provisions of Article 7. equal : It shall be calculated for Rotterdam for the ( a) for round-grained paddy rice, to the levy same standard quality as the target price applicable to round-grained husked rice, for husked rice ; adjusted by the conversion rate; (b) The threshold price for long-grained ( b) for long-grained paddy rice, to the levy husked rice shall be calculated by applicable to long grained husked rice, adjusting the threshold price for adjusted by the conversion rate ; round-grained husked rice by a corrective amount representing the differences in ' ( c) for round-grained husked rice, to the value between the variety of round-grained threshold price less the c.i.f. price for rice corresponding to a standard quality round-grained rice ; and a variety of rice representative of (d) for long-grained husked rice, to the threshold Community production. price less the c.i.f. price for long-grained rice; 3 . The threshold price for round-grained (e) for round-grained semi-milled rice, to the levy milled rice and the threshold price for applicable to round-grained milled rice, long-grained milled rice shall be derived from the adjusted by the conversion rate ; threshold prices for round-grained husked rice (f) for long-grained semi-milled rice, to the levy and long-grained husked rice respectively by applicable to long-grained milled rice, making adjustments for the conversion rate, for adjusted by the conversion rate; processing costs and for the value of by-products and then by adding an amount for the protection (g) for round-grained milled rice, to the threshold of the industry. price less the c.i.f. price for round-grained rice ; It shall be calculated for Rotterdam for the same standard qualitites as the respective threshold (h) for long-grained milled rice, to the threshold prices for husked rice. price less the c.i.f. price for long-grained rice ; (i) for broken rice, to the threshold price less the 4 . The Council, acting in accordance with the c.i.f. price. procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the

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Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall 2. The c.iif. prices shall be calculated for goods fix the threshold price for round-grained husked in bulk on the basis, of the most favourable rice and the protective amount mentioned in purchasing opportunities on the world market, paragraph 3 . for each of the types of rice listed in paragraph 1 , taking into account the quotations , or prices on 5 . The following shall be determined in that market adjusted for differences in quality accordance with the procedure laid down in compared with the standard quality and, for Article 26 : long-grained rice, adjusted for the difference in value between this quality and that representative ( a) the variety of long grained rice representative of Community production and, if need be, for the of Community production and the difference conversion rate, for processing costs and for the in value, for 100 kg of husked rice, between value of by-products. this variety and the variety of round-grained rice corresponding to standard quality ; 3 . Differences in quality shall be expressed by means of a corrective amount representing the (b ) the threshold price for long-grained husked differences in quality and in value between the rice ; variety taken as the standard quality and. other varieties . (c) the threshold price for round-grained milled rice ; 4 . Where free quotations on the world market (d ) the threshold price for long-grained milled are not a determining factor for the offer price rice .' and where the price is lower than those quotations , a special c.i.f. price calculated on the basis of the offer price shall be substituted, solely Article 7 in respect of the imports in question, for the c.i.f. price . The following shall be substituted for Article 15 : 5 . Detailed rules for the application of this ' 1 . A threshold price for broken rice shall be Article, in particular the corrective amounts, the fixed for the Community each year, before 1 method of calculating c.i.f.' prices, and the margin May, for the following marketing year, at a level within which variations in the factors used for between 130% and 140% of the threshold price calculating the levy do not entail any alteration of for maize valid for the first month of the the levy, shall be adopted in accordance with the marketing year. procedure laid down in Article 26.'

2. The threshold price for broken rice shall be fixed for Rotterdam and for a standard quality. Article 9

3 . The Council, acting in accordance with the The following shall be substituted for Article 19 : procedure laid down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a proposal from the Commission, shall ' The procedure laid down in Article 25 shall fix the threshold price for broken rice and the apply for determining : standard quality for which it shall be fixed.' ( a ) the conversion rates between :

— husked rice and paddy rice, to be used Article 8 when applying Article 4 (3 ), Article 11 ( 1 ) ( a) and (b ) and Article 16 (2 ); The following shall be substituted for Article 16 : — husked rioT and milled rice, to be used when applying ■ Article 14 (3 ) and Article ' 1 . There shall be calculated for Rotterdam : 16 (2); (a) a c.i.f. price for round-grained husked rice; — milled rice and semi-milled rice, to be used when applying Article 11 ( 1 ) (e) and (b) a c.i.f. price for long-grained husked rice ; (f) and Article 16 (2) ; (c) a c.i.f. price for round-grained milled rice; ( b) the processing costs and the value of (d) a c.i.f. price for long-grained milled rice; by-products to be used when applying Article (e) a c.i.f. price for broken rice ; 4 (3 ), Article 14 (3 ) and Article 16 (2).'

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Article 10 (c) semi-milled rice: paddy rice from which the husk, part of the germ and the whole The following Article shall he added to the or part of the outer layers of the pericarp Regulation : but not the inner layers have been removed ; 'Article 23a (d) milled rice: paddy rice from which the husk, the whole of the. outer and inner 1 . Rice and products processed from rice may layers of the pericarp, the whole of the be made available to food aid programmes where germ in the case of long or semi-long rice such programmes are provided for in and at least part of the germ in the case of international conventions or agreements. round rice have been removed, but in The rice or products processed from rice to be which longitudinal white striations may made available to such programmes shall either remain on not more than 10% of the be bought on the Community market or be grains ; obtained from stocks held by the intervention agencies . 2. ( a) Round-grained rice: rice of which the grains have a length equal to or less than 2 . The conditions in which products may be 5-2 millimetres and a ratio of length to , made available, and in particular in which they width of less than 2 ; may be bought on the Community market or obtained from the stocks of the intervention agencies, shall be determined by the Council, ( b) Long-grained rice: rice of which the grains acting in accordance with the procedure laid have a length greater than 5-2 millimetres ; down in Article 43 (2) of the Treaty on a proposal from the Commission. (c) Measurement of the grains: grain measurements are taken on milled rice by the following method : 3 . In exceptional circumstances rice may be bought on the world market. Detailed rules for (i) take a representative sample from the the application of this paragraph shall be adopted consignment; in accordance with the procedure laid dowq in Article 26 .' (ii) sieve the sample so as to retain only whole grains ;

(iii) carry out two measurements Article 11 consisting of 100 grains each and find the average ; The following Article . shall be added to the (iv) express the result in millimetres, Regulation : rounded off to one decimal place.

'Article 31a 3 . Broken rice : grain fragments the length of Should transitional measures be necessary they which does not exceed three quarters of the shall be adopted in accordance with the average length of the whole grain. procedure laid down in Article 26.'

4. Quellmehl: flour of which the starch has undergone heat treatment or other treatment Article 12 thus increasing its swelling capacity.'

The following shall be substituted for Annex A : Article 13 ' 1 . ( a ) Paddy rice: rice which has retained the husk after threshing; This Regulation shall enter, into force on the day ( b ) Husked rice: paddy rice from which only following its publication in the Official Journal of the the husk has been removed. Examples of European Communities. rice falling within this definition are those with the commercial descriptions "brown It shall apply from 1 September 1971 , save as regards rice", "cargo rice", "loozain rice" and Article 10, which shall apply from the date of entry "riso sbramato "; into force of this Regulation .

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

Done at Brussels, 19 July 1971 .

For the Council

The President L. NATALI