30. 5. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 139/71 
Type 
of wine 
RI 
RII 
R III 
AI 
All 
A III Guide price in the 
Community as constituted 
on 31 December 1985 
3,35 ECU/%, vol/hl 
3,35 ECU/%, vol/hl 
52,23 ECU/hl 
3,11 ECU/%, vol/hl 
69,60 ECU/hl 
79,49 ECU/hl Guide price 
in Spain 
2,49 ECU/%, vol/hl 
2,49 ECU/%, vol/hl 
38,89 ECU/hl 
2,31 ECU/%, vol/hl 
51,78 ECU/hl 
59,14 ECU/hl 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No ..., amends Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 (l) to introduce arrange­
ments providing for the fixing of a maximum guaranteed 
quantity for each variety or group of varieties in 
Community tobacco production; whereas any exceeding of 
that maximum quantity entails a proportional reduction in 
the prices and premiums for each variety; 
Whereas tobacco is grown in specific areas where it often 
constitutes a resource vital to the existence of agricultural 
holdings; whereas a reduction in the prices and premiums 
on account of the maximum guaranteed quantity being 
exceeded as a result of production from areas newly given 
over to that crop would lead to serious difficulties for 
producers in areas where the crop is grown traditionally; 
whereas any extension of tobacco growing outside the 
areas where it is grown should accordingly be discouraged 
by limiting the application of the prices and premiums to Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply from 1 September 1988. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States. 
the varieties of tobacco grown in traditional communes of 
production; whereas, in order to determine those com­
munes, account should be taken of whether the tobacco 
was harvested during a representative period; whereas, 
however, with a view to permitting conversion of tobacco 
production to sought-after varieties, certain varieties 
should be excluded from the application of this measure; 
Whereas the possibility of offering baled tobacco for 
intervention must be an exceptional means for processing 
and market preparation undertaking of solving difficulties 
arising from an abnormal market situation; whereas the 
offering for intervention over several consecutive years of a 
major percentage of tobacco prepared for market by the 
undertaking accordingly appears to be a practice which 
does not meet the objectives of the Community rules; 
whereas systematic recourse to intervention should 
accordingly be discouraged by reducing the derived 
intervention price applicable to the quantities offered, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is hereby amended as 
follows: 
1. The following Article 7a is inserted: 
'Article 7a Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 
on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco 
(88/C 139/59) 
(!) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1. 1. Notwithstanding Articles 2, 4 and 6, the prices and 
premiums shall apply only to varieties of tobacco from 
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communes where that variety has already been grown at 
least once in the five years preceding the harvest in 
question. 
2. However, the Council may determine at the same 
time as the prices and premiums and in accordance with 
the same procedure, the varieties to which the 
provisions of paragraph 1 do not apply. 
3. Detailed rules for the application of this Article 
shall be adopted, as the need arises, in accordance with 
the procedure laid down in Article 17.' 
2. The following paragraph is inserted in Article 12a: 
'la. Where an undertaking engaged in the first 
processing and market preparation of tobacco offers for 
intervention for a period of three consecutive years 
quantities of Community-grown leaf tobacco treated by 
that undertaking, all quantities offered for intervention 
THE COUNCIL 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 ..., and in particular Articles 2(5), 4(4) and (5), 6(8) and 
7a(2) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social 
Committee, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary Committee, 
Whereas, when fixing the prices for raw tobacco, account 
should be taken both of the objectives of the Common 
0) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1. in the following year by the latter shall be bought in by 
the intervention agency at a derived intervention price 
minus 10 %. That price shall be adjusted, where 
appropriate, by the scale of price increases and 
reductions provided for Article 6(7).' 
3. In Article 12a(3), 'and la' is inserted after 'paragraph 1'. 
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day 
following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Communities. 
It shall apply from the 1988 harvest. However, Article 1(2) 
and (3) shall apply from 1 January 1989. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly 
applicable in all Member States. 
Agricultural Policy and of the contribution which the 
Community desires to make to the harmonious develop­
ment of world trade; whereas the objectives of the 
Common Agricultural Policy are, in particular, to ensure a 
fair standard of living for the agricultural community, to 
assure the availability of supplies and to ensure that 
supplies reach consumers at reasonable prices; 
Whereas the norm and intervention prices for leaf tobacco 
must be fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in 
Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 in order, in 
particular, to encourage producers to convert to the 
cultivation of those varieties which are most competitive, 
most in demand and least harmful to health; 
Whereas it is again desirable to fix, in respect of the 1988 
harvest, derived intervention prices both for the varieties 
which, before the market organization came into force or, 
in the case of varieties grown in Greece, Spain and Portugal, 
prior to accession, qualified for a price guarantee at the Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) fixing for the 1988 harvest the norm and intervention 
prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, the derived intervention prices for 
baled tobacco, the reference qualities, the production areas, the maximum guaranteed quantities 
and the varieties excluded from the application of Article 7a of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 and 
amending Regulation (EEC) No 1975/87 
(88/C 139/60)