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31 . 7 . 74 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 209 / 5

REGULATION (EEC) No 1999/74 OF THE COUNCIL of 29 July 1974 amending Regulation (EEC) No 243/73 laying down general rules for the system of compensatory amounts for rice and fixing these amounts for certain products

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN compensatory amounts in respect of husked rice and COMMUNITIES, by applying the coefficients referred to in Commis­ sion Regulation No 467/67/ EEC (3 ) of 21 August 1967 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European fixing the conversion rates, the processing costs and Economic Community ; the value of the by-products for the various stages of Having regard to the Treaty concerning the accession rice-processing, last amended by Regulation (EEC) No of new Member States to the European Economic 1808 /74 (4) ; Community and to the European Atomic Energy Whereas for the sake of consistency as regards the Community, ( 5 ) and in particular Articles 55 (6) and rules governing the calculations in question for rice, 62(1 ) of the Act annexed thereto ; the amount to be applied as the compensatory Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; amount for paddy rice should also be derived from that which is fixed for husked rice, Whereas Article 5 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 243/73 (2) of 31 January 1973 laying down general HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : rules for the system of compensatory amounts for rice and fixing these amounts for certain products provides that for paddy rice, semi-milled or milled rice the Article 1 amount applicable by way of compensatory amount, when the levy is less than the compensatory amount The text of Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No for the product in question, is to be determined by 243/73 shall be replaced by the following : the Commission by applying the scale set out in the ' 2. For paddy rice, semi-milled or milled rice the Annex to that Regulation ; whereas it has been found amounts applicable by way of compensatory that this method of determining the amount appli­ amount shall be determined by the Commission cable by way of compensatory amount for these types with the help of the coefficients set out in Regula­ of rice may lead to distortions of competition ; tion No 467/67/ EEC and for husked rice by refer­ whereas milled rice imported from third countries as ence to the variations in the amount or amounts from the original Member States may be marketed in determined pursuant to the first paragraph .' the new Member States at a price lower than the cost price of husked rice imported and processed locally ; Article 2 whereas to remedy this situation the amount appli­ cable by way of compensatory amount should be deter­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the day mined for paddy rice, semi-milled and milled rice by following its publication in the Official Journal of reference to the amounts applicable by way of the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 July 1974. For the Council

The President B. DESTREMAU

(>) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No 204, 24. 8 . 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 29, 1 . 2. 1973, p. 26. (4) OJ No L 188 , 12. 7. 1974, p. 34.