31973R1817

No L 184/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 7 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1817/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 5 July 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN mined in accordance with Article 3 (2) of Regulation COMMUNITIES, No 365/67/EEC (6), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2435/70 (7), based, in respect of each month Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European for which the export licence is valid, on the cif price Economic Community ; calculated on the basis of offers for shipment during Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ the month of exportation ; 67/EEC (1) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally, Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of refunds should be calculated on the following basis : new Member States to the European Economic — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Community and the European Atomic Energy relation to each other, at any given moment, Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 17 on their effective parity ; (4) thereof ; — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the Whereas the first subparagraph of Article 17 (4) of arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each Regulation No 359/67/EEC provides that the export of these currencies recorded for a given period, in refund applicable to rice and broken rice on the day relation to the Community currencies referred to on which application for an export licence is made, in the previous subparagraph ; adjusted for the threshold price which will be in force during the month of exportation, must be applied on Whereas the Opinion of the Monetary Committee was request to exports to be effected during the period of requested ; validity of the licence ; Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions Whereas Regulation No 474/67/EEC (4), as ^ amended that the corrective amount applicable on 6 July 1973 by Regulation (EEC) No 1397/68 (5), lays down must be fixed as shown in the Table annexed to this detailed rules for the advance fixing of the export Regulation ; refund on rice and broken rice ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation Whereas that Regulation provides that the refund are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ applicable on the day on which application for an ment Committee for Cereals : export licence is made must, when it is fixed in advance, be reduced by an amount no greater than the HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : difference between the cif forward delivery price and the cif price, where the former exceeds the latter by more than 0-025 unit of account per 100 kilo­ Article 1 grammes ; whereas, on the other hand, the refund The corrective amount referred to in Article 17 (4) of must be increased by an amount no greater than the Regulation No 359/67/EEC which is applicable to the difference between the cif price and the cif forward export refunds fixed in advance in respect of rice and delivery price, where the former exceeds the latter by broken rice is hereby fixed as shown in the Table more than 0-025 unit of account per 100 kilo­ annexed to this Regulation . grammes ; Whereas the cif price is that determined in accor­ Article 2 dance with Article 16 of Regulation No 359/67/EEC ; whereas the cif forward delivery price is that deter­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 6 July 1973 .

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

Doné at Brussels, 5 July 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. 3) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 20 . (6) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 32. (5) OJ No L 222, 10 . 9 . 1968 , p. 6. (7) OJ No L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p . 1 .

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 5 July 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

(«.*./100 kg) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th OCT Current heeding Description of goods period period period period period No 7 8 9 10 11 12

10.06 Rice :

A. Paddy rice ; husked rice :

I. Paddy rice : — — — — — — a) Round grained — — — — — — b) Long grained II . Husked rice : — — — — — — a) Round grained — — — — — — b) Long grained

B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : a) Round grained — — — —

— — — — — — b) Long grained II. Wholly milled rice : a) Round grained — — — — _ — b) Long grained — — — — — —

C. Broken rice — — — — — —