CELEX: 31973R1364
Language: en
Date: 1973-05-15 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1364/73 of the Council of 15 May 1973 fixing the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco from the 1973 harvest

28 . 5 . 73                             Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 141 /49
                                  REGULATION (EEC) No 1364/73 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                        of 15 May 1973
                  fixing the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco from the 1973 harvest
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            resulting from first processing and preparation for
                                                                    market;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community;                                        Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically
                                                                    applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety
                                                                    should be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        the Community and for the corresponding reference
727/70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common                           quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has
organization of the market in raw tobacco, as last                  not undergone first processing and preparation for
amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of                 market;
Accession and the Adjustment to the Treaties, and in
particular Article 4 (4) thereof;                                   Whereas, application of these rules and criteria to the
                                                                    market situation in raw tobacco entails fixing the
                                                                    premium on the basis of the prices for baled tobacco ;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;                 whereas there is international trade in this tobacco ;
                                                                    whereas the price of third country and Community
                                                                    baled    tobacco   should    therefore  be taken   into
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                        consideration ; whereas this price may be calculated
Parliament ;                                                        for Community tobacco on the basis of the norm
                                                                    price for each variety of leaf tobacco, as adjusted by
Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to                       a coefficient expressing the loss in weight resulting
purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco is              from first processing and from preparation for
to secure the norm price and to ensure that there are               market, and as increased by an amount representing
outlets for tobacco produced in the Community;                      costs directly related to such processing and
                                                                    preparation ;
Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at                  Whereas it has been found that the cost price of
an amount made up, for each variety, of a                           Community baled tobacco so calculated is higher
component calculated with regard to available outlets               than the price which would enable that tobacco to
on the Community market and, where appropriate,                     compete with similar imported tobacco ; whereas the
with regard to the influence of trends in prices of                 premium granted to purchasers of Community
imported tobaccos which are competitive as                          tobacco is intended to enable those purchasers to pay
substitutes for tobacco produced in the Community,                  to leaf tobacco producers a price which is the same as
and of a standard component designed to secure                      the norm price;
guaranteed price and income and to ensure that there
are outlets for Community tobacco ;                                 Whereas the difference between the price thus
                                                                    calculated and the cost price was established at the
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of the                baled tobacco stage ; whereas this difference should
premium for leaf tobacco, available outlets for baled               be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a formula
tobacco should be assessed ; whereas, to this end, the              similar to that described above ;
costs of first processing and of market preparation
for each variety should be taken into account;                     Whereas tobacco prices on the international market
whereas these costs should correspond to those of                  have not changed sufficiently since the premiums for
well-managed undertakings established in the                       the 1972 harvest were fixed by Council Regulation
Community ; whereas account should also be taken,                   (EEC) No 2483 /72 (3 ) of 29 November 1972, to
for each variety, of the average losses in weight                  justify a change in the level of prices on the
(!) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p . 1 .                               (3) OJ No L 269, 30. 11 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .
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Community market; whereas, moreover, the flat-rate            Whereas all the factors taken into consideration for
assessment of the costs of first processing and               calculating the amount of the premium include those
preparation for market, used when prices were last            factors which are designed to enable the objectives of
fixed, should again be used, since that assessment            Article 4 ( 1 ) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 to
may still be considered valid; whereas, consequently,         be realized;
the increase in the norm price for the 1973 harvest
should affect only the amount of the premiums ;
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 4
(3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70, the premium
may exceptionally be fixed at an amount above or                                     Sole Article
below that normally applicable to all tobacco of a
given variety ; whereas this possibility should be used       The premiums referred to in Articles 3 and 4 of
in respect of the, lowest quality of the Virgin SCR           Regulation ( EEC) No 727/70 and granted to
variety, since the value of this quality is substantially     purchasers of leaf tobacco shall be as shown in the
lower than that of the reference quality;                     Annex for each variety of the 1973 harvest.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 15 May 1973 .
                                                                                  For the Council
                                                                                   The President
                                                                                    A. LAVENS
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                                                 ANNEX
                         Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco
            Serial
             No                          Varieties                            u.a. /kg
               1   ( a) Badischer Geudertheimer
                                                                               1-338
                   ( b) Forchheimer Havanna II (c)
               2   Badischer Burley E                                          1-335
               3   Virgin SCR                                                  1-180 i1)
               4    ( a) Paraguay and hybrids
                                                                               1-038
                   (b) Dragon vert and hybrids
               5   Nijkerk                                                     1-119
               6   Burley (Burley X Bel)                                       0-917
               7    ( a) Misionero and hybrids
                                                                               1-002
                   (b) Rio Grande and hybrids
               8    ( a) Philippin
                    (b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq)                               0-697
                    ( c) Burley (Ergo X 6410 and Ergo X Bursana)
               9    ( a) Semois
                                                                               0-876
                   (b) Appelterre
             10    Bright                                                      1-118
             11(a) Burley I                                                    0-688
             11(b) Maryland                                                    0-848
             12    ( a) Kentucky and hybrids
                   (b) Moro di Cori                                            0-546
                   ( c) Salento
             13    ( a) Nostrano del Brenta
                   ( b) Resistente 142                                         1-156
                   ( c) Goj ano
             14    Beneventano                                                 0-805
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                   Serial
                    No                                         Varieties                                        u.a. /kg
                     15           Xanti-Yakà                                                                     1-435
                     16           Perustitza                                                                     1-348
                     17           Erzegovina and hybrids                                                         1-202
                     18           ( a) Round Tip
                                  (b) Scafati                                                                    5-655
                                  ( c) Sumatra I
                     19           ( a) Brasile Solvaggio
                                                                                                                 0-228
                                  (b) other varieties
             (J) Excluding the lowest quality (Class III) for which the amount of the premium is 0-606 u.a./kg.