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7 . 12 . 73 No L 338/ 13 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 3293/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 6 December 1973 fixing the levies 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 Council Regulation No 359/ Whereas it follows from applying the rules and other 67/EEC ( J) of 25 July 1967 on the common organiza­ provisions contained in Regulation (EEC) No 2365/73 tion of the market in rice, as last amended by the to the offer prices and today's quotations known to Act (2) annexed to the Treaty (3) on the Accession of the Commission that the levies at present in force new Member States to the European Economic should be altered as shown in the Table annexed to Community and the European Atomic Energy this Regulation, Community, signed at Brussels on 22 January 1972, and in particular Article 1 1 (5) thereof ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Having regard to the Opinion of the Monetary Committee ; Article 1 Whereas the import levies on rice and broken rice were fixed by Regulation (EEC) No 2365/73 (4) and The import levies to be charged on the products listed subsequent amending Regulations ; in Article 1 ( 1 ) (a) and (b) of Regulation No 359/ 67/ EEC are hereby fixed as shown in the Table Whereas, if the levy system is to operate normally, annexed to this Regulation . levies 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 7 December 1973 . on their effective parity ;

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

Done at Brussels , 6 December 1973 .

For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(0 OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (*) OJ No L 73, 27. 3 . 1972, p. 5 . («) OJ No L 245, 1 . 9 . 1973, p . 7.

No L 338 / 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 7. 12 . 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 6 December 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

tu.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 0 0

II. Wholly milled rice : a) Round grained 0 0 b ) Long grained 0 0

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 . (*) This levy is applicable only to imports fulfilling the conditions laid down in Article 2 of Regulation ( EEC) No 540/70.