CELEX: 31975R0675
Language: en
Date: 1975-03-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 675/75 of the Council of 4 March 1975 fixing for the 1975 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco

20 . 3 . 75                                Official Journal of the European Communities                               No L 72/37
                                       REGULATION (EEC) No 675/75 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                          of 4 March 1975
                         fixing for the 1975 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers
                                                           of leaf tobacco
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                             for each variety, of the average losses in weight
                                                                      resulting from first processing and preparation for
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          market ;
European Economic Community ;
                                                                      Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/                     applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety is
70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common organization                    to be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in the
of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by the                  Community and for the corresponding reference
Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 4 (4)                 quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has
thereof;                                                              not undergone first processing and preparation for
                                                                      market;
Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 (3) on
the value of the unit of account and the exchange                     Whereas, applying these rules and criteria to the
rates to be applied for the purposes of the common                    situation on the market in raw tobacco, the premium
agricultural policy, as last amended by Regulation                    should be based on the prices for baled tobacco ;
(EEC) No 2543 /73 (4), and in particular Article 3                     whereas international trade is in such tobacco ;
thereof;
                                                                      Whereas it has been found that the cost price of
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                   baled tobacco produced in the Community is higher
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                          than the price which would enable that tobacco to
Parliament;                                                            compete with similar imported tobacco and than the
                                                                      prices which potential buyers are prepared to pay ;
Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and                      whereas the premium granted to purchasers of
 Social Committee ;                                                   tobacco produced in the Community is intended to
                                                                      enable those purchasers to pay to leaf tobacco
Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to                         producers a price which is the same as the norm
purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco                   price ;
is to secure the norm price and to ensure that tobacco
produced in the Community is sold ;                                   Whereas increasing integration is currently a feature
                                                                      of the market ; whereas the alterations to the norm
Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at                    price and the costs of first processing and market
an amount made up, for each variety, of                               preparation which have been decided on for the 1975
a component calculated with regard to foreseeable                     harvest should therefore not          be reflected  in the
outlets on the Community market and, where                             amount of the premium, but the premium should be
 appropriate, the influence of trends in prices of                     adjusted, account being taken of the trend in world
imported tobaccos which are competitive as                            market prices, by reference to the prices established
substitutes for tobacco produced in the Community,                    on the Community market by supply and demand ;
and a standard component designed to secure
guaranteed price and income and to ensure that                        Whereas the premium thus calculated was established
tobacco produced in the Community is sold ;                            at the baled tobacco stage ; whereas this premium
                                                                      should be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of                      formula similar to that described above ;
the premium for leaf tobacco outlets for baled
tobacco should be assessed ; whereas to this end the                  Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 475/75 (5 ) of
costs of first processing and of market preparation                   27 February 1975 on the exchange rates to be applied
for each variety should be taken into account ;                       in agriculture has provided that as from 3 March
whereas these costs should correspond to those of                     1975 a representative rate shall be applied in respect
well-managed undertakings established in the                          of the currencies of all the Member States ; whereas
Community ; whereas account should also be taken,                     for tobacco, however, the economic effects of these
                                                                      representative rates will appear, in the Member
                                                                      States of which the representative rate has been
                                                                      revalued, only as from 1 Januarv 1976, in order to
O    OJ   No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970 , p. 1 .
(2)  OJ   No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. 14.
(3)  OJ   No 106, 30 . 10. 1962 , p . 2553/62.
( 4) OJ   No L 263 , 19 . 9. 1973 , p. 1 .                             ( 5) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975 , p. 28 .
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avoid a reduction in the value of the national                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
currency ; whereas this provision would lead, as from
that date, to a variation of the premiums fixed in
                                                                                      Article 1
units of account for approximately half the 1975
harvest; whereas however it appears more appro­
priate to the characteristics of this agricultural sector      For the 1975 harvest the amounts of the premium
to ensure the same conditions for the whole of this            granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco and provided
year's harvest; whereas this result can be reached             for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall
if the former exchange rate in the Member States in            be as shown in the Annex .
question is made applicable to the premiums paid
for the 1975 harvest;
                                                                                      Article 2
Whereas the Monetary Committee shall be consulted
on the exchange rate ; whereas in view of the                  As from 1 January 1976 the exchange rate to be
urgency there are grounds for drawing up the mea­              applied in Germany and the Benelux countries to the
sures in question under the conditions set out in              premiums for the 1975 tobacco harvest shall be that
Article 3 (2) of Regulation No 129,                            in force before 3 March 1975 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 4 March 1975.
                                                                             For the Council
                                                                               The President
                                                                             M. A. CLINTON
                                                          ANNEX
                                 Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco
                                                                                             Amount
               Serial No                             Varieties
                                                                                             (u.a. /kg)
                   1         a) Badischer Geudertheimer
                                                                                               1.390
                             b) Forchheimer Havanna II c)
                   2         Badischer Burley E                                                1.402
                   3         Virgin SCR                                                        1-272
                   4          a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof
                                                                                               1.100
                             b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof
                   5         Nijkerk                                                           1-119
                   6         Burley (Burley X Bel)                                            0.930
                   7         a) Misionero and hybrids thereof
                                                                                               1.028
                             b) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof
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                                                                          Amount
           Serial No                         Varieties
                                                                          (u.a. /kg)
               8     a) Philippin
                     b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq)                            0.765
                     c) Burley (Ergo X 6 410 and Ergo X Bursana)
               9     a) Semois
                                                                            0.918
                     b) Appelterre
              10     Bright                                                 1-100
              11 a)  Burley I                                               0-710
              11 b)  Maryland                                               0-848
              12     a) Kentucky and hybrids thereof
                     b) Moro di Cori                                        0-670
                     c) Salento
              13     a) Nostrano del Brenta
                     b) Resistente 142                                      1-180
                     c) Gojano
             14      Beneventano                                            0.823
             15      Xanti-Yakà                         *                   1-445
             16      Perustitza                                            1.358
             17      Erzegovina and hybrids thereof                         1-230
             18      a) Round Tip
                     b) Scafati                                            5-155
                     c) Sumatra I
             19      a) Brasile Selvaggio
                                                                           0-245
                     b) Other varieties