CELEX: 31980R0712
Language: en
Date: 1980-03-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 712/80 of 26 March 1980 fixing in respect of the 1979 crop export refunds for raw tobacco

27. 3. 80                          Official Journal of the European Communities                         No L 81 / 13
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 712/80
                                                   of 26 March 1980
                       fixing in respect of the 1979 crop export refunds for raw tobacco
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 whereas, in view of current export possibilities and of
  COMMUNITIES,                                                 market conditions in the Community, it is appropriate
                                                               that a refund be granted for certain varieties of the
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European         1979 crop in respect of the countries listed in the
  Economic Community,                                          Annex hereto ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization            Whereas, applying the abovementioned rules and
 of the market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by          criteria to existing conditions in the tobacco market,
 Regulation (EEC) No 1 579/79 (2), and in particular the       and in particular to prices in the Community and on
 first sentence of the third subparagraph of Article 9 (2)     the world market, it follows that the amount of the
 thereof,                                                      refund and the products and countries in respect of
                                                               which it should apply should be as specified in the
 Whereas, by virtue of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC)           Annex hereto ;
 No 727/70, the difference between the world market
 prices of the products referred to in Article 1 of that       Whereas the Management Committee for Raw
 Regulation and their prices within the Community              Tobacco has not delivered an opinion within the time
 may be covered by an export refund ;                          limit set by its chairman,
 Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 326/71 of 15 February 1971 laying down general rules
                                                               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 for granting export refunds on raw tobacco and
 criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds (3), the
 granting of export refunds is to be limited to baled                                  Article 1
 tobacco produced from leaf tobacco harvested in the
 Community ; whereas the refunds must be fixed for             The list of varieties of baled tobacco from the 1979
 each variety produced in the Community in the light           crop in respect of which the export refund provided
 of the factors indicated in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation     for in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall
 (EEC) No 326/71 ;                                             be granted, and the amount of such refund and the
 Whereas there has been a substantial drop in the              third countries of destination for which it shall apply,
                                                               shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.
 prices on the world market of tobacco ; whereas the
 repercussion of such a drop in prices on the competi­
 tive position of Community tobacco constitutes,                                       Article 2
within the meaning of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)
 No 326/71 , one of the exceptional cases referred to in       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 the second subparagraph of Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regulation      following its publication in the Official Journal of
 (EEC) No 727/70 and accordingly enables the refund            the European Communities.
 to be fixed beyond the limits laid down in that
Article ;                                                      It shall apply until 31 March 1981 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 26 March 1980.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President
(•) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 189, 27. 7. 1979, p. 1 .
P) OJ No L 39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .
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                                               ANNEX
                                                    Amount
             Serial
                                Varieties          of refund            Countries of destination
              No
                                                   (ECU/kg)
                la  Badischer Geudertheimer          0-34
                                                              )
                lb  Forchheimer Havanna              0-34    ) to all third countries
                                                              J
                2   Badischer Burley E               0-34
                8   Burley I                         0-30
                9   Maryland                         0-30
                                                             ( to all third countries with the excep­
                                                             tion of the USA and Canada
                                                             7
              10    Kentucky                         0-34
              12    Beneventano                      0-34       to all third countries
              13    Xanti-Yakà                       0-34
                                                             ) to all third countries with the excep­
              14    Perustitza                       0-34    tion of Greece, Turkey and Yugo
                                                             slavia
              15    Erzegovina                       0-34
              16    (a) Round Tip         \
                                                                to all third countries with the excep­
                    (b) Scafati           /          0-72       tion of the USA and Canada
                    (c) Sumatra I         '