CELEX: 51989PC0424
Language: en
Date: 1989-09-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 727/70 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN RAW TOBACCO

4. 10. 89                               Official Journal of the European Communities                             No C 251/7
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the
                                      common organization of the market in raw tobacco
                                                       COM(89) 424 final
                                     (Submitted by the Commission on 18 September 1989)
                                                          (89/C 251/05)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                        Article 1
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
                                                                   Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is hereby amended as
thereof,
                                                                   follows:
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Article 12a (la) is replaced by the following:
                                                                       'la.   From 1 January 1989, where an undertaking
Having regard       to  the   opinion    of   the   European
                                                                       engaged in the first processing and market prepa-
Parliament,
                                                                       ration of tobacco offers for intervention, for a period
                                                                       of three consecutive years, quantities of baled
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                       tobacco exceeding 15 % or more of the equivalent of
Social Committee,
                                                                       the quantities of Community-grown leaf tobacco
                                                                       treated by that undertaking, all quantities offered for
Whereas, pursuant to Article 12a of Council Regulation
                                                                       intervention in the following year by the latter shall
(EEC) No 727/70 ('), as last amended by Regulation
                                                                       be bought in by the intervention agency at a derived
(EEC) No 1251/89 (2), the intervention price is to be
                                                                       intervention price minus 10 %. That price shall be
reduced for undertakings offering for intervention for
                                                                       adjusted, where appropriate, by the scale of price
three consecutive years quantities of tobacco exceeding a
                                                                       increases and reductions provided for in Article 6
given percentage of the overall quantity treated by the
undertaking concerned; whereas, for the sake of legal                  (7)-'
certainty, it should be specified that the period of three                                   Article 2
years is to run from 1 January 1989 and that only
harvests from the 1989 harvest are to be taken into                This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
account; whereas it should also be specified that that             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
percentage relates to the equivalent of quantities of leaf         European Communities.
tobacco;
                                                                   It shall apply from the 1989 harvest.
Whereas Regulation (EEC)            No   727/70    should   be     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
amended accordingly,                                               directly applicable in all Member States.
 (') OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1.
 C) OJ No L 129, 11. 5. 1989, p. 16.