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No L 201 /2 Official Journal of the European Communities 21 . 7. 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 1963/73 OF THE COUNCIL Of 17 July 1973 fixing, for the 1973/74 marketing year, the monthly price increases for paddy and husked rice

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Community, the amount being expressed in round COMMUNITIES, figures, and the monthly increases for husked rice should be fixed at a level which takes account of the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European increases for paddy rice and the ratio between the two Economic Community ; stages in question ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/ 67/EEC (') of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 7 (2) thereof ; Sole Article Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; 1 . For the 1973/74 marketing year, the amount of Whereas, in fixing the number and the amount of the each of the monthly increases provided for in Article monthly increases and deciding on the first month in 7(1 ) and Article 14(2) of Regulation No 359/67/EEC which the increases are to apply, both the costs of shall be : storing and financing rice in the Community and the need to ensure that the disposal of stocks of rice —- 01 25 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes of conforms to market requirements should be taken paddy rice ; into account ; — 0156 unit of account per 100 kilogrammes of husked rice . Whereas, to this end, for the 1973/74 marketing year, the monthly increases for paddy rice should be fixed 2. ' These monthly increases shall apply from 1 in accordance with the same scale as for the 1972/73 December 1973 to 1 July 1974. The prices thus marketing year and at a level equal to the storage costs obtained for the month of July 1974 shall remain now prevalent in the rice-producing regions of the valid until . 31 August 1974.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 July 1973 .

For the Council

The President lb FREDERlkSEN

(•) OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . \2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14.