No L 166/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 25.6.76 COUNCIL REGULATION (EE‘C) No 1423/76 of 21 June 1976 determining standard qualities for rice and broken rice THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice (1), and in particular Articles 4 (5) and 15 (3) thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Whereas the target price for husked rice, the inter- vention price for paddy rice, and the threshold price - for broken rice must correspond to specific standard qualities; Whereas the standard qualities for which those prices are fixed should correspond as far as possible, as regards husked rice and paddy rice, to the average quality of round grain rice harvested in the Com- munity and, as regards broken rice, to the avegage quality of broken rice usually obtained in the Com- munity industry from home-grown rice; Whereas, to that end, the norms of the most representative variety produced in the Community should be adopted as the standard qualities of rice, and the quality of broken rice most frequently found in intra-Community trade should be adopted as the standard quality for that product, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The standard quality of husked rice for which the target price is fixed shall be as follows: (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable quality corresponding to the average quality of common round grain rice harvested (Y) See page 1 of this Official Journal. within the Community under normal conditions, of a type corresponding to the ‘Balilla’ variety; (b) moisture content: 15%; (c) total percentage of rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality: 7% by weight, of which: — paddy grains: 1%, — broken rice: 3%, — green grains‘ or grains showing natural malformation: 3%, \ (d) tolerance of extraneous matter, consisting of: — mineral or vegetable inedible substances provided that they are not toxic: 0:01%; — extraneous grains or parts thereof, edible: 0:10%; (e) yield of wholly milled rice, in whole grains (with a tolerance of 5% of dlipped grains): 77-50% by weight, of which: a percentage by weight of wholly milled rice grains which are not of unimpaired quality: — chalky grains: 3%, — grains striated with red: 3%, — spotted grains: 1%, — stained grains: 0-50%, — yellow grains: 0:05%, — amber grains: 0-125%. Article 2 The standard quality of paddy rice for which inter- vention prices are fixed shall be as follows: (a) rice, free of odour, of a sound and fair marketable quality corresponding to the average quality of common round grain rice harvested within the Community under normal conditions, of a type corresponding to the ‘Balilla’ variety;