31971R1608

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27.7.71 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 168 / 17

REGULATION (EEC) No 1608/71 OF THE COMMISSION

of 26 July 1971 amending Regulation No 467/67/EEC as regards the processing costs for the various stages of rice processing

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COM­ values ; whereas, in that case, the adjustments MUNITIES, provided for should not be made since they are economically justified only when the price for rice is Having regard to the Treaty establishing the greater than that for the broken rice contained European Economic Community ; therein ;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation No are in accordance with the Opinion of the 359/67/EEC1 of 25 July 1967 on the common Management Committee for Cereals ; organisation of the market in rice, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1553/71 ,2 and in particular Article 19 thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas in Article 2 of Commission Regulation No 467/67/EEC3 of 21 August 1967 fixing the conversion Article 1 rates, the processing costs and the value of the by-products for the various stages of rice processing, the costs of processing paddy rice into husked rice The following shall be substituted for Article 2 of and husked rice into milled rice are fixed at 0-95 and Regulation No 467/67/EEC : 1-10 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of paddy or husked rice respectively; ' 1 . The processing costs to be taken into consideration when paddy rice is converted into Whereas these costs have increased since they were husked rice shall be 1-51 units of account per 100 fixed following a general rise in the prices of their kilogrammes of paddy rice. components ; whereas the amount of these costs should be established at an average and 2 . The processing costs to be taken into representative level for the whole Community ; consideration when husked rice is converted into milled rice shall be 1-53 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of husked rice. Whereas Article 4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC provides for adjustments to be made for the conversion of the value for a quantity of rice into a 3 . The processing costs for the conversion of semi-milled rice into milled rice shall not be taken value for the same quantity of rice at a different into consideration .' processing stage in order to take account of the quantity of broken rice in that rice; whereas the value of broken rice for the purpose of those adjustments has been fixed at 8-00 units of account and 11-00 Article 2 units of account per 100 kilogrammes for husked rice and milled and semi-milled rice respectively; whereas, The following subparagraph shall be added to Article however, offers of husked rice and milled and 4 of Regulation No 467/67/EEC : semi-milled rice are occasionally lower than those 'The adjustments provided for in the preceding subparagraph shall not be made when the prices 1 OJ No 174, 31.7.1967, p. 1 . of husked rice and the prices of milled and 2 OJ No L 164, 22.7.1971 , p . 5 . semi-milled rice used for fixing the levies and 3 OJ No 204, 24.8.1967, p. 1 . export refunds are lower than :

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8-0 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of Article 3 husked rice,

11-00 units of account per 100 kilogrammes of This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September semi-milled or milled rice.' 1971 .

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

Done at Brussels, 26 July 1971 . For the Commission

The President

Franco M. MALFATTI