31993R3470

No L 317/ 16 Official Journal of the European Communities 18 . 12. 93

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3470/93 of 17 December 1993 setting the amounts of aid for the supply of rice products from the Community to the Azores and Madeira

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, used to convert amounts expressed in third country currencies and are used as the basis for determining the Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European agricultural conversion rates of the Member States' curren­ Community, cies ; whereas detailed rules on the application and deter­ Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 mination of these conversions were set by Commission of 15 June 1992 introducing specific measures in respect Regulation (EEC) No 1068/93 (8) ; of certain agricultural products for the benefit of the Azores and Madeira ('), as last amended by Regulation Whereas, as a result of the application of these detailed (EEC) No 1974/93 (2), and in particular Article 10 thereof, rules to the current market situation in the rice sector, Whereas, pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No and in particular to the rates of prices for these products 1600/92, the requirements of the Azores and Madeira for in the European part of the Community and on the world rice are to be covered in terms of quantity, price and market the aid for supply to the Azores and Madeira quality by the mobilization, on disposal terms equivalent should be set at the amounts given in the Annex ; to exemption from the levy, of Community rice, which involves the grant of an aid for supplies of Community Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are origin ; whereas this aid is to be fixed with particular in accordance with the opinion of the Management reference to the costs of the various sources of supply and Committee for Cereals, in particular is to be based on the prices applied to exports to third countries ; Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 696/92 (3), HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2596/93 (4), lays down common detailed rules for implementation of the specific arrangements for the supply of certain agricul­ Article 1 tural products, including rice, to the Azores and Madeira ; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1983/92 of Pursuant to Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92, 16 July 1992 laying down detailed rules for implementa­ the amount of aid for the supply of rice of Community tion of the specific arrangements for the supply of rice origin under the specific arrangements for the supply of products to the Azores and Madeira and establishing the the Azores and Madeira shall be as set out in the Annex forecast supply balance for these products (*), as last hereto . amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1939/93 (6), lays down detailed rules which complement or derogate from the provisions of the aforementioned Regulation ; Article 2 Whereas the representative market rates defined in Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3813/92 Q are This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1994.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1993 .

For the Commission Rene STEICHEN Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 180, 23 . 7. 1993, p. 26. (3) OJ No L 179, 1 . 7. 1992, p. 6. (4) OJ No L 238, 23 . 9 . 1993, p. 24. 0 OJ No L 198, 17. 7. 1992, p. 37. (6) OJ No L 176, 20 . 7. 1993, p. 14. 0 OJ No L 387, 31 . 12. 1992, p. 1 . (8) OJ No L 108 , 1 . 5. 1993, p. 106.

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ANNEX

to the Commission Regulation of 17 December 1993 setting the amounts of aid for the supply of rice products from the Community to the Azores and Madeira

(ECU/tonne) Amount of aid Product (CN code) Destination

Azores Madeira

Milled rice ( 1006 30) 244,00 244,00