31973R3515

29 . 12 . 73 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 360 / 13

REGULATION ( EEC ) No 3515 / 73 OF THE COMMISSION of 28 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 (') 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 ; A rticfe I 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 1 January on their effective parity ; 1 974 .

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

Done at Brussels , 28 December 1973 . For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS /Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7 . 1967 , p . 1 . (*) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) 0 | No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 5 . (4) O'J No L 245, 1 . 9 . 1973, p. 7.

No L 360/ 14 Official Journal of the European Communities 29 . 12 . 73

ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 28 December 1973 fixing the levies on rice and broken rice

(u . a . 1100 kg)

CCT Third AASM / heading Description of goods countries OCT o (») No

10.06 Rice : Λ . 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

11 . 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 department! 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.