COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 838/91 of 4 April 1991 amending Regulations (EEC) No 1727/70, (EEC) No 1728/70, (EEC) No 2603/71, (EEC) No 410/76 and (EEC) No 2501/87 in respect of certain varieties of tobacco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3577/90 (2), and in particular Article 2 (6), the first subparagraph of Article 3 (3) and Articles 5 (6), 6 (10) and 7 (4) thereof,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1331/90 (3) provides in particular for the variety 'Hybrids of Badischer Geudertheimer' to be transferred to serial number 11; whereas as a consequence of that transfer it is appropriate to amend the Regulations whose provisions refer to the various tobacco varieties, namely:
- Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 of 25 August 1970 on intervention procedure for raw tobacco (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2570/90 (5),
- Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1728/70 of 25 August 1970 fixing the scales of price increases and reductions for raw tobacco (6), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2131/86 (7),
- Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2603/71 of 6 December 1971 on detailed rules for conclusion of contracts for first processing and market preparation of tobacco held by intervention agencies (8), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2131/86,
- Commission Regulation (EEC) No 410/76 of 23 February 1976 fixing the maximum permissible weight losses in connection with the supervision of the first processing and market preparation of tobacco (9), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2131/86,
- Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2501/87 of 24 June 1987 fixing the characteristics of each variety of tobacco grown in the Community (10), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2071/88 (11);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Raw Tobacco,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1
In Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70, Annexes I and II to Regulation (EEC) No 1728/70 and in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2603/71 and the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 410/76, the terms used to designate the varieties classified under serial number 11 are hereby replaced by the following terms:
'11 (a) Forchheimer Havanna IIc
(b) Nostrano del Brento
(c) Resistente 142
(d) Gojano
(e) Hybrids of Badischer Geudertheimer'. Article 2
The descriptions of the varieties classified under serial number 11, set out in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70, and in the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2501/87, are hereby supplemented by those given in Annexes I, II and III respectively to this Regulation. Article 3
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
It shall be applicable for the first time to raw tobacco from the 1990 harvest. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 4 April 1991.