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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2165/83
of 29 July 1983
amending Regulations (EEC) No 1727/70, (EEC) No 1728/70, (EEC) No 2603/71 and (EEC) No 410/76 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 1461/82 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 3 (3), and Articles 5 (6), 6 (10) and 7 (4) thereof,
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1677/83 of 21 June 1983 fixing, for the 1983 harvest, the norm and intervention prices, the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, the derived intervention prices and the reference quality for baled tobacco (3), transferred the Elassona variety from serial No 20b to serial No 19b; whereas it is therefore 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 2728/81 (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 1759/83 (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 2728/81,
- 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2728/81;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1677/83 altered the choice of the reference quality of the Forchheimer Havanna IIc variety and its description; whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 should therefore be amended as regards the description of the reference quality of that variety;
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 numbers 19 and 20 are hereby replaced by the following terms:
'19. (a) Kaba Koulak classic
(b) Elassona
20. (a) Kaba Koulak non-classic
(b) Myrodata Smyrne, Trapezous and Phi 1'.
Article 2
1. The description of varieties 19 and 20 set out in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 is replaced by that given in Annexes I and II respectively to this Regulation.
2. The description of category B of variety 11 set out in Annexes I and II to Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 is replaced by that given in Annex III 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.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 July 1983.