1. Pre-cooked rice is constituted by bleached rice in grains undergoing a pre-cooking and partial dehydration intended to facilitate final cooking.
2. Pre-cooked rice consists of milled rice grain which has been pre-cooked and partially dehydrated to facilitate final cooking.
3. Regulation (EC) No 1352/98 amended Regulation (EC) No 1222/94 by deleting husked rice as a basic product. It is therefore necessary to amend Annex C to the Regulation for pre-cooked rice by CN code 19049010, taking account of the coefficient of equivalence between husked rice and bleached rice, and to amend the basic product in column 6 of the said Annex C.
