CELEX: 31971R2602
Language: en
Date: 1971-12-06 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2602/71 of the Commission of 6 December 1971 on the communication of the information necessary for implementing Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the common organisation of the market in raw tobacco

974                               Official Journal of the European Communities
8.12.71                            Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 269/9
                            REGULATION (EEC) No 2602/71 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                 of 6 December 1971
              on the communication of the information necessary for implementing Regulation (EEC)
                        No 727/70 on the common organisation of the market in raw tobacco
THE     COMMISSION      OF    THE  EUROPEAN       COM­        Whereas an assessment of the prices obtained by
MUNITIES,                                                     producers for leaf tobacco for which the premium
                                                              has been granted can only be made on the basis of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                  information contained in the premium certificate
European Economic Community ;                                 introduced by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
                                                              1726/703 of 25 August 1970 on the procedure for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                  granting the premium for leaf tobacco, as amended
727/701 of 21 April 1970 on the common                        by Regulation (EEC) No 2596/704 ; whereas,
organisation of the market in raw tobacco, as                 consequently, it is necessary for Member States to
amended by Regulation (EEC ) No 1574/71 ,2 and in             communicate to the Commission, as soon as all leaf
particular Article 15 thereof;                                tobacco of the crop in question has been subjected to
                                                              supervision, the necessary information concerning the
Whereas Article 15 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70              average prices paid for each variety and quajity as
specifies that Member States and the Commission               well as the corresponding quantities ;
shall communicate to each other the information
necessary for implementing this Regulation ;                  Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                              are in accordance with the Opinion of the
Whereas before 1 August each year the norm prices,            Management Committee for Tobacco ;
the intervention prices and the derived intervention
                                                              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
prices, and before 1 November the premiums, must
be fixed for the crop of the following calendar year;                                  Article 1
Whereas, in order to draw up proposals on the fixing
of these prices and premiums, the Commission must             1 . The Member States shall communicate annually
be in possession of the final production figures for          to the Commission for each of-variety of tobacco :
the preceding year as well as provisional information          ( a) not later than 15 April :
on the crop for the current year; whereas these
figures and this information should be supplied                     — production figures for the crop of the
regularly and, having due regard to the production                      preceding year, and
time-table, on dates which will make it possible to                 -— an estimate of the areas to be used for the
draw up the proposals in question ;                                     cultivation of tobacco during the current
                                                                        year.
Whereas account should also be taken of Article 13
( 1) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 which lays down            However, if all these particulars cannot be
that where the quantities taken over by the                   communicated by that date, the outstanding
intervention agencies exceed, for a particular variety        information shall be supplied not later than 15 June;
or crop, a stated percentage of the production, and in
any case a stated quantity, the Commission shall              (b) not later than 15 July : an estimate of the areas
submit a report to the Council not later than 30 April              planted for the current year;
of the calendar year following that of the crop ;             (c) not later than 15 September : a provisional
whereas the Commission must therefore have as .                     estimate of the crop production for the current
many relevant particulars as possible at its disposal ;             year.
1 OJ No L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 1 .                               3 OJ No L 191 , 27.8.1970, p. 1 .
2 OJ No L 167, 26.7.1971, p. 1 .                              * OJ No L 277, 22.12.1970, p . 7.
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2. Production figures shall be expressed in net               (b) the average difference recorded between the
weight of leaf tobacco.                                            average of the prices paid and the average price
                                                                   paid for the reference quality.
                        Article 2
Member States shall communicate to the Commission
on the dates referred to in Article 1 ( 1 ) ( a) for each                              Article 3
tobacco variety of the preceding year's crop for
which the premium has been applied for :
                                                              This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
( a) the average prices paid in accordance with Article       day following its publication in the Official Journal
     2 (2) (i) of Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 ;               of the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussel , 6 December 1971 .
                                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                                      The President
                                                                                 Franco M. MALFATTI