CELEX: 31982R0400
Language: en
Date: 1982-02-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 400/82 of 23 February 1982 fixing export refunds for raw tobacco in respect of the 1981 crop

24. 2. 82                             Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 53/7
                                COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 400/82
                                                   of 23 February 1982
                      fixing export refunds for raw tobacco in respect of the 1981 crop
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  making Community tobaccos less competitive ;
COMMUNITIES,                                                    whereas, under Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                326/71 , this constitutes one of the exceptional cases
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 9 ( 1 )
Economic Community,                                             of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 which allows a refund
                                                                to be fixed outside the limits laid down therein for the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70
of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the              varieties in question ;
market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by the Act           Whereas, applying the abovementioned rules and
of Accession of Greece, and in particular the first             criteria to existing conditions in the tobacco market,
sentence of the third subparagraph of Article 9 (2)             and in particular to prices in the Community and on
thereof,                                                        the world market, it follows that the amount of the
Whereas, by virtue of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC)             refund and the products and countries in respect of
No 727/70, the difference between the world market              which it should apply should be as specified in the
                                                                Annex hereto ;
prices of the products referred to in Article 1 of that
Regulation and their prices within the Community                Whereas the Management Committee for Raw
may be covered by an export refund ;                            Tobacco has not delivered an opinion within the time
                                                                limit set by its chairman,
Whereas, pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No
326/71 of 15 February 1971 laying down general rules
for granting export refunds on raw tobacco and criteria          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for fixing the amount of such refunds (2), the granting
of export refunds is to be limited to baled tobacco                                      Article 1
produced from leaf tobacco harvested in the Commu­
nity ; whereas the refunds must be fixed for each               The list of varieties of baled tobacco from the 1981
variety produced in the Community in the light of the           crop in respect of which the export refund provided
factors indicated in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC)         for in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall
No 326/71 ;                                                      be granted, and the amount of such refund and the
                                                                 third countries of destination for which it shall apply,
Whereas export possibilities for tobacco of the varie­           shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.
ties Xanti-Yaka, Perustitza, Erzegovina and Paraguay of
the 1981 crop have presented themselves ; whereas, in                                    Article 2
view of the quantities available on the Community
market, an export refund should be granted in respect            This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
of these varieties in the context of the 1981 crop ;             following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                 European Communities.
Whereas there have been major falls in prices on the
world market for a number of competing varieties,                It shall apply until 31 December 1982.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 28 February 1982.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             Poul DALSAGER
                                                                       Member of the Commission
 (') OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1 .
 (*) OJ No L 39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .
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                                                   ANNEX
                                          Amount of
          Serial
                        Variety              refund                Countries of destination
           No
                                           (ECU/kg)
             4   a) Paraguay                  0-34       To all third countries
           13    Xanti-Yakà                   0-44     \
           14    a) Perustitza                0-44     \ To all third countries with the exception of
                                                       V Turkey and Yugoslavia
           15    Erzegovina                   0-44