31973R2639

29 . 9 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 273/ 11

REGULATION (EEC) No 2639/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 September 1973 altering the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN — for other currencies an exchange rate based on the COMMUNITIES, arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of these currencies recorded for a given period, in Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European relation to the Community currencies referred to Economic Community ; in the previous subparagraph ; Having regard to Coyncil Regulation No 359/ Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other 67/EEC ( 1 ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2621 /73 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the to the information at present available to the Commis­ Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of sion that the corrective amount at present in force new Member States to the European Economic should be altered as shown in the Annex to this Regu­ Community and the European Atomic Energy lation : Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 1 7 (4) thereof ;

Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Article 1 Committee ; The corrective amount referred to in Article 1 7 (4) of Whereas the corrective amount applicable to the Regulation No 359/67/EEC, applicable to the export refund on rice and broken rice was fixed by Regula­ refunds fixed in advance in respect of rice and broken tion (EEC) No 2621 /73 (4) ; rice, as fixed in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No Whereas, if the refund system is to operate normally, 2621 /73 is hereby altered as shown in the Annex to this Regulation . refunds should be calculated on the following basis : — in the case of currencies which are maintained in Article 2 relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 October on their effective parity ; 1973 .

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

Done at Brussels, 28 September 1973 .

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') O | No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p . I. O OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14 . (3 ) Of No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . H OJ No L 271 , 28 . 9 . 1973 , p . 16 .

No L 273/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 29. 9. 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 September 1973 altering the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

(u.a. / lOO kg) 1st 2nd 3rd 4 th 5th CCT Current heading Description of goods period period period period period No 10 11 12 1 2 3

10.06 Rice :

Λ . 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 — — • r­ __ — b) Long grained — — — — — — II . Wholly milled rice : a) Round grained — — — — b) Long grained — — — — — —

C. Broken rice — — — — — —