CELEX: 51986PC0020(33)
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 727/70 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN RAW TOBACCO

No C 85/60                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                              14. 4. 86
                                                                                                                                   Derived
                                                                                                  Intervention                   Intervention
                                       Variety                                    Norm Price                        Premium
   No
           a) Perustiza                                                    1                                         2,429          4,116
   14                                                                               3,280            2,788           2,364          4,140
           b) Samsun                                                       J
   15      Erzegovina and similar varieties                                         2,947            2,505           2,188          3,712
   16      a) Round Tip                                                     ^
           b) Scafati                                                       >      15,596           13,257            9,420       20,478
           c) Sumatra I                                                     J
   17      Basmas                                                                   5,913            5,026            2,869         6,747
   18      Katerini and similar varieties                                           4,925            4,186            2,552         6,050
   19      a) Kaba Koulak classic                                          "j
                                                                                    4,279            3,637            2,211         5,170
           b) Elassona                                                      J
   20      a) Kaba Koulak non-classic                                      "I
                                                                                    3,223            2,740            1,514         4,163
           b) Myrodata Smyrno, Trapezous and Phi 1                          J
   21      Myrodata Agrinion                                                        4,253            3,615            2,233         5,080
   22      Zichnomyrodata                                                           4,419            3,756            2,355         5,303
   23      Tsebelia                                                                  3,695           3,141            3,936         4,613
   24      Mavra                                                                     3,607           3,066            2,400         4,529
   25      Burley GR                                                                 2,251           1,913            0,953         3,034
   26      Virginia GR                                                               3,387           2,879            1,732         4,065
   27      Santa Fe                                                                  1,258            1,069           0,281          1,756
    28     Burley Ferm.                                                              2,035            1,730           0,861          2,596
    29     Havana ESP                                                                2,618            1,843           1,823          3,003
    30      Round Scafati                                                            7,884           6,701            5,519        11,414
    31      Virginia ESP                                                             4,088           3,475            2,093          4,666
    32      Burley ESP                                                               2,807           2,386            1,280          3,504
    33      Virginia P                                                               3,374            2,868           1,705          3,897
    34      Burley P                                                                 2,548            2,166           1,021          3,245
The abovementioned prices and premiums for Spanish and Portuguese varieties are subject to revision on the basis of the exchange parity in force
on 1 March 1986.
             Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the common
                                             organization of the market in raw tobacco
                                                         COM(86) 20 final
                              (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 14 February 1986)
                                                            (86/C 85/33)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                                Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
                                                                        Committee,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                        Whereas all the mechanisms provided for in Council
thereof,                                                                Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 (*), as last amended by                      ,
                                                                        are applicable to each variety of tobacco produced in the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      Community; whereas the concept of varieties of tobacco was
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,                (>) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1.
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defined in Article 2 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70;                  for each variety. The Member States shall apply to the
whereas, pursuant to the said Article, varieties of tobacco              Commission before 30 September of each year for
means types differentiated according to their botanical                  recognition of the production areas in which each variety
characteristics, but not so as to exclude consideration, where           is to be grown for harvesting during the following
necessary, of ecological modifications of those types;                   calendar year.'
Whereas the name of each variety corresponds to a specific           2. Article 2 (3) (b) is replaced by the following:
botanical type; whereas the botanical criterion also covers
genetic and morphological characteristics and factors                    '(b) for each Community-produced varity grown in
relating to soil and climate; whereas, in addition to this                     recognized production areas;'
criterion, cultivation techniques comprising methods of
cultivation, yield and methods of drying and packaging the           3. In Article 2(5), after the expression 'reference qualities',
tobacco should also be taken into consideration; whereas                 the following words are added: 'and production
these two criteria enable each Community-produced variety                areas'.
to be precisely identified;
                                                                     4. The following paragraph 6 is added to Article 2:
Whereas only qualities produced in certain production areas
have the characteristics peculiar to each variety;                       '6.     Detailed rules for the application of this Article,
                                                                         and in particular the definition of varieties, shall be
                                                                         adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Whereas, in order not to disturb the conversion process                  Article 17.'
currently under way in the Community, the recognized
production areas for each variety should be fixed annually;
whereas each Member State should therefore be required to            5. Article 4 (3) (b) is replaced by the following:
submit an application to the Commission each year for
recognition of the production areas in which each variety is to          '(b) for each Community-produced variety coming
be grown for the following harvest,                                            from recognized production areas and for the
                                                                               corresponding reference quality.'
                                                                     6. Article 6(3)(b) is replaced by the following:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                             '(b) for each Community-produced variety coming
                                                                               from recognized production areas.'
                            Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is hereby amended as
follows:                                                                                        Article 2
                                                                     This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 1. Article 2 (4) is replaced by the following:
                                                                     following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                     European Communities.
     '4.    Community-produced varieties of tobacco shall
     mean types differentiated according to their botanical
     characteristics and the cultivation techniques used, but        It shall apply from the 1986 harvest.
     not so as to exclude consideration, where necessary, of
     ecological modification of those types.
     The concept of 'variety' defined in the first subparagraph      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
     shall apply according to the production areas recognized        applicable in all Member States.