31973R1712

No L 175/ 16 29 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1712/ 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN of these currencies recorded for a given period, in COMMUNITIES , relation to the Community currencies referred to in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; "Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was requested ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ 67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other tion of the market in rice , as last amended by the provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 1121 /73 Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of to the offer prices and today's quotations known to new Member States to the European Economic the Commission that the levies at present in force should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to Community and the European Atomic Energy Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, this Regulation ; and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 1 121 / 73 (4 ) and subsequent amending Regulations ; Article 1 Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, The import levies to be charged on the products listed levies should be calculated on the following basis : in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359 / — in the case of currencies which are maintained in 67/EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this Regulation . relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Article 2 on their effective parity ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the This Regulation shall enter into force on 29 June 1973 . arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each

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

Done at Brussels, 28 June 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 . (J ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4 ) OJ No L 115, 1 . 5 . 1973 , p . 7 .

29 . 6 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 175/ 17

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 June 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

(;u.a./100 kg)

CCT Third AASM / heading Description of goods countries OCT (») (») No

10.06 Rice : A. Paddy rice ; husked rice : I. Paddy rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 0 0 II . Husked rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b ) Long grained 0 0 B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b ) Long grained 4·478 1·811 II. Wholly milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b) Long grained 4·800 1·948 C. Broken rice 0 0

(*) Regulation (EEC) No 521/70 provides that the levies are not applied to imports into the French overseas departments of products originating in the AASM and OCT . (2) Thi* levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 540/70.