CELEX: 31986R0316
Language: en
Date: 1986-02-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 316/86 of 13 February 1986 fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1985 harvest

14. 2. 86                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 39/ 17
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 316/86
                                                       of 13 February 1986
                          fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1985 harvest
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        be differentiated according to the form in which the baled
                                                                   tobacco is presented ; whereas for exports of entirely
                                                                   threshed (stripped) tobacco it should be specified that the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              refund is to be granted only on the strips, not scraps, and
Economic Community,                                                the amount should be increased accordingly to take
                                                                   account of the results of threshing ; whereas, to avoid any
                                                                   risk of confusion, the strips must measure at least 0,5
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of             centimetres ;
21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market
in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)            Whereas the trade in threshed (stripped) tobacco involves
No 3768/85 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph          only a few tobacco varieties ; whereas some oriental varie­
of Article 9 ( 1 ) and the first sentence of the third subpara­    ties in particular are not threshed on account of their
graph of Article 9 (2) thereof,                                    small leaf size ; whereas the refund should therefore be
                                                                   differentiated only for strips from varieties which are actu­
                                                                   ally threshed and the differentiated amount worked out
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70              by applying to the basic amount set for unthreshed
the difference between world prices and Community                  tobacco of the particular variety the coeffiient set in the
prices for the products referred to in Article 1 of the said       Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 410/76 of 23
Regulation may be covered by an export refund ;                    February 1976, fixing the maximum permissible weight
                                                                   losses in connection with the supervision of the first
                                                                   processing and market preparation of tobacco (4), as last
Whereas under Council Regulation (EEC) No 326/71 of                amended by Regulation (EEC) No 886/85 (*) ;
15 February 1971 laying down general rules for granting
export refunds on raw tobacco and fixing the amount of             Whereas, to apply the rules and criteria referred to above
such refunds (3) the granting of refunds must be limited to
                                                                   in the present situation on the market in tobacco, and in
baled tobacco produced from leaf tobacco harvested in
the Community ; whereas the refunds must be fixed for              particular in the light of Community and world prices, a
each variety produced in the Community in the light of             refund should be fixed for the products listed in the
the factors referred to in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)     Annex, at the levels and for the countries specified
                                                                   therein ;
No 326/71 :
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
Whereas for some varieties the outlets are very limited or         in accordance with the opinion of the Management
involve high transport costs ; whereas, moreover, some             Committee for Tobacco,
third countries exporting tobacco charge prices which
have a marked effect on the competitive position of
Community tobacco ; whereas Article 4 of Regulation
(EEC) No 326/71 foresees criteria to be taken into
account in the assessment of the exceptional cases
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 9 ( 1 ) of
Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 ; whereas in view of the
abovementioned situation it may be concluded that these
circumstances constitute exceptional cases which there­
                                                                                             Article 1
fore justify the refund being fixed outside the limits speci­
fied in the second subparagraph of Article 9 ( 1 ) of Regula­
tion (EEC) No 727/70 ;                                             The list of varieties of baled tobacco from the 1985
                                                                   harvest on which the export refund referred to in Article
                                                                   9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is to be granted, the
Whereas, as a result of progress in processing and market          amount of the refund and the countries of destination
preparation, an increasingly large part of Community               shall be as specified in the Annex.
production of certain varieties of tobacco is being
exported in the form of threshed (stripped) tobacco ;
whereas, consequently, the amount of the refund should             The refund shall be granted on baled tobacco presented
                                                                   in one of the following two forms :
(') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 362, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 8 .                             (4) OJ No L 50, 26. 2. 1976, p. 11 .
h) OJ No L 39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .                                O OJ No L 96, 3 . 4. 1985, p. 10 .
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(a) tobacco in the form of whole or cut (not stripped)                                    Article 2
    leaves falling within heading No 24.01 of the
    Common Customs Tariff (column 3),                            This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
(b) threshed (totally stripped) tobacco in the form of strips    publication in the Official Journal of the European
    measuring at least 0,50 centimetres, falling within          Communities.
    heading No 24.01 of the Common Customs Tariff
    (column 4).                                                  It shall apply until 31 December 1986.
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 13 February 1986.
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                              Vice-President
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                                                                 ANNEX
                                                                                                                                             (en Écus/kg)
                                                                      Amount
                                                                   of the refund           Amount
                                                                     on tobacco         of the refund
  Serial                                                          in the form of         on threshed
 Number                           Variety                          whole or cut       (totally stripped)
                                                                                                                    Countries of destination
                                                                    (unstripped)            tobacco
                                                                        leaves       (Article 1 (2) (b))
                                                                 (Article 1 (2) (a))
    1                               2
                                                                0          3                    4                                 5
      1    Badischer Geudertheimer                              l        0,34                 0,47       V
     2    Badischer Burley E                                    \        0,34                 0,47        J
     3    Virgin D                                                       0,30                 0,42
                                                                                                          /   All third countries
     4    (a) Paraguay                                                   0,34                 0,47
          (b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof, Philippin, Petit
              Grammont (Flobecq), Semois, Appelterre                     0,34                 0,47       J
     7    Bright                                                l        0,30                 0,42        \
    9
     8    Burley I
          Maryland                                              I        0,30
                                                                         0,30
                                                                                             0,42
                                                                                             0,42
                                                                                                         / All third countries except the United
                                                                                                         /    States and Canada
   10     Kentucky                                              l       0,44                 0,61        '
   11     (a) Forchheimer Havana II c)                          l        0,34                0,47             All third countries
   13     Xanti-Yaka                                            \        0,44                  —
                                                                                                         \
   14     (a) Perustitza
          (b) Samsun                                            I        0,44
                                                                        0,30
                                                                                               —
                                                                                                         f    All third countries except the United
                                                                                                         ^ States and Canada
                                                                                                         )
   15     Erzegovina                                                    0,44                   —
   16     (a) Round Tip
                                                                        0,72                                  All third countries except the United
          (b) Scafati                                                                          —
                                                                                                              States and Canada
          c) Sumatra I
   17     Basmas                                                         0,34                  —
                                                                                                          1 ■
   18     Katerini and similar varieties                                 0,34                  —
   19     (a) Kaba Koulak classic                                        0,34
          (b) Elassona                                                   0,34                  —
   20     (a) Kaba Koulak non classic                                    0,44                  —
                                                                                                              All third countries except Turkey and
          (b) Myrodata Smyrne, Trapezous, and Phi I                      0,44                               1 Yugoslavia
   21     Myrodata Agrinion                                              0,44                  —
   22     Zichnomyrodata                                                 0,34                  —
                                                                                                           \
   23     Tsebelia                                                      0,44                 0,61          l
   24     Mavra                                                         0,44                   —
                                                                                                          1
   25     Burley GR                                                     0,30                 0,42        )    All third countries except the United
                                                                                                         (    States and Canada
   26     Virginia GR                                                   0,30                 0,42