31973R3226

No L 330 / 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 30 . 11 . 73

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3226 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 29 November 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

THE: COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the cif price is that determined in accor­ COMMUNITIES , dance with Article 16 of Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC ; whereas the cif forward delivery price is that deter­ Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European mined in accordance with Article 3 ( 2) of Regulation Economic Community ; No 365 / 67 / EEC (b ), as last amended by Regulation Having regard to Council Regulation No 359 / ( EEC) No 2435 / 70 ( 7 ), based , in fespect of each month 67 / EECC ) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ for which the export licence is valid , on the cif price tion of the market in rice , as last amended by the calculated on the basis of offers for shipment during Act (J ) annexed to the Treaty (•') on the Accession of the month of exportation ; new Member States to the European Economic Whereas if the refund system is to operate normally, Community and the European Atomic Energy refunds should be calculated on the following basis : Community , signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 17 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in (4) thereof ; relation to each other, at any given moment, within a band of 2-25 % , a rate of exchange based Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary on their effective parity ; Committee ; — 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 Whereas it follows from applying all these provisions during the month of exportation , must be applied on that the corrective amount applicable on 1 December request to exports to be effected during the period of 1973 must be fixed as shown in the Table annexed to validity of the licence ; this Regulation ; Whereas Regulation No 474/ 67/ EEC (4 ), as amended Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation by Regulation ( EEC ) No 1397 / 68 (5 ), lays down are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ detailed rules for the advance fixing of the export ment Committee for Cereals , refund on rice and broken rice ; Whereas that Regulation provides that the refund HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : applicable on the day on which application for an export licence is made must, when it is fixed in A rt icle 1 advance, be reduced by an amount no greater than the The corrective amount referred to in Article 17 (4) of difference between the cif forward delivery price and Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC which is applicable to the the cif price , where the former exceeds the latter by export refunds fixed in advance in respect of rice and more than 0-025 unit of account per 100 kilo­ broken rice is hereby fixed as shown in the Table grammes ; whereas, on the other hand, the refund annexed to this Regulation . must be increased by an amount no greater than the difference between the cif price and the cif forward Article 2 delivery price , where the former exceeds the latter by more than 0-025 unit of account per 100 kilo­ This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December grammes ; 1 973 .

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

Done at Brussels , 29 November 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967, p . I. P ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14. (>) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 5. («) 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. (') OJ No L 262, 3 . 12. 1970, p. 1 .

30 . 11 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 330/ 17

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 29 November 1973 fixing the corrective amount applicable to the refund on rice and broken rice

( u.a. /100 kg,

1st 2nd * rd 4th 5th CCT Current heading period period period period period Description ot goods No 1 1 3 4 5 12 ,

10.06 Rice :

A. Paddy ricc ; husked rice :

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

B. Semi-milled or wholly milled rice : I. Semi-milled rice : a ) Round grained — — _ — b ) Long grained — I — — — li . Wholly milled rice : a ) Round grained — — _ —. b ) Long grained — — — — — —

(.. Broken rice _ — — — - —