31976R0257

No L 32/ 12 Official Journal of the European Communities 6 . 2 . 76

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 257 /76 of 5 February 1976 amending for the fourth time Regulation ( EEC) No 2042/75 on special detailed rules for the application of the system of import and export licences for cereals and rice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN fore a risk that the market will not develop normally, COMMUNITIES, particularly in Community production areas ; whereas, in order to reduce that risk, the period of validity of Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European import licences should be temporarily reduced to 45 Economic Community, days ; Having regard to Council Regulation No 359/67/EEC Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation of 25 July 1967 on the common organization of the are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ market in rice ( ! ), as last amended by Regulation ment Committee for Cereals, (EEC) No 668/75 (2), and in particular Article 10 (2) thereof, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2042/75 of 25 July 1975 on special detailed rules for the appli­ cation of the system of import and export licences for Article 1 cereals and rice (3), as last amended by Regulation Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2042/75 is hereby (EEC) No 23/76 (4), provided that the period of replaced by the Annex to this Regulation . validity of import licences for round and long grain rice should last until the end of the second and the third month respectively following that of issue ; Article 2

Whereas during the first months of the current This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its marketing year import licences were issued for very publication in the Official Journal of the European substantial quantities of rice ; whereas there is there­ Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 5 February 1976. For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No 174, 31 . 7. 1967, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 197.5, p. 18 . (3) OJ No L 213, 11.8 . 1975, p. 5 . (4) OJ No L 4, 9. 1 . 1976, p. 12.

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ANNEX

PERIOD OF VALIDITY OF IMPORT LICENCES

A. For cereals

CCT Description of goods Period of validity heading No

10.01 A Common wheat and mesiin 45 days

10.02 Rye \ 10.03 Barley j 10.04 Oats f 10.05 B Maize other than hybrid maize for ? 30 days sowing 1 10.07 Buckwheat, millet, canary seed and grain I sorghum ; other cereals '

10.01 B Durum wheat 30 days 11.01 A Wheat or mesiin flour \ 11.01 B Rye flour > 60 days 11.02 A I Wheat groats and meal (common wheat ) and durum wheat)

Other products listed in Article 1 of Until the end of the fourth Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 month following that of issue

B. For rice

10.06 A I a) Round grain paddy rice j 10.06 A II a) Round grain husked rice r 45 days 10.06 B I a) Round grain semi-milled rice y 10.06 B Il a) Round grain wholly milled rice /

10.06 A I b) Long grain paddy rice \ 10.06 A II b) Long grain husked rice f 45 days 10.06 B I b) Long grain semi-milled rice 1 10.06 B II b) Long grain wholly milled rice J

10.06 C Broken rice Until the end of .e third month following that of issue 11.01 F Rice flour \ 11.02 A VI Rice groats and meal j 11.02 E Flaked rice \ Until the end of the fourth II e) 1 month following that of 11.02 F VI Rice pellets y issue 11.08 A II Rice starch J