CELEX: 31990R3793
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3793/90 of 21 December 1990 fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1990 harvest

No L 365/8                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                 28 . 12. 90
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3793/90
                                                     of 21 December 1990
                          fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1990 harvest
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                        whereas, consequently, the amount of the refund should
                                                                   be differentiated according to the form in which the baled
                                                                   tobacco is presented ; whereas for exports of entirely
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              threshed (stripped) tobacco it should be specified that the
Economic Community,                                                refund is to be granted only on the strips, not scraps, and
                                                                   the amount should be increased accordingly to take
                                                                   account of the results of threshing ; whereas, to avoid any
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of             risk of confusion, the strips must measure at least 0,5
21 April 1970 on the common organization o!f the market            centimetres ;
in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 1329/90 (2), and in particular the second subparagraph
                                                                   Whereas the trade in threshed (stripped) tobacco involves
of Article 9 (1 ) and the first sentence of the third subpara­     only a few tobacco varieties ; whereas some oriental var­
graph of Article 9 (2) thereof,                                    ieties in particular are not threshed on account of their
                                                                   small leaf size ; whereas the refund should therefore be
                                                                   differentiated only for strips from varieties which are actu­
Whereas under Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70              ally threshed and the differentiated amount worked out
the difference between world prices and Community                  by applying to the basic amount set for unthreshed
prices for the products referred to in Article 1 of the said       tobacco of the particular variety the coefficient set in the
Regulation may be covered by an export refund ;
                                                                   Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 410/76 of 23
                                                                   February 1976 fixing the maximum permissible weight
                                                                   losses in connection with the supervision of the first
Whereas under Council Regulation (EEC) No 326/71 of                processing and market preparation of tobacco 0, as last
15 February 1971 laying down general rules for granting
                                                                   amended by Regulation (EEC) No 21 31 /86 (®) ;
export refunds on raw tobacco and fixing the amount of
such refunds (3), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No
1977/87 (4), the granting of refunds must be limited to            Whereas, to apply the rules and criteria referred to above
baled tobacco produced from leaf tobacco harvested in              in the present situation on the market in tobacco, and 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
No 326/71 ;                                                        therein ;
                                                                   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 1990
                                                                   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 Annexes.
production of certain varieties of tobacco is being
exported in the form of threshed (stripped) tobacco ;
                                                                   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  132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 25.
(3) OJ No   L  39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .                            O OJ No L 50, 26. 2. 1976, p. 11 .
(4) OJ No   L  184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 55.                             (6) OJ No L 187, 9. 7. 1986, p. 9.
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(a) tobacco in the form of whole or cut (not stripped)                                    Article 2
     leaves falling within CN code ex 2401 10 (Annex I) ;
(b) threshed (totally stripped) tobacco in the form of strips     This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
     measuring at least 0,5 centimetres, falling within CN
     code ex 2401 20 (Annex II).                                  It shall apply until 31 December 1991 .
                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                   States .                              '
                   Done at Brussels, 21 December 1990.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                       Member of the Commission
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                                                                ANNEX I
                                                                                                                            (ECU/kg)
                                                                                                Amount of the refund
                                                                                                                        Countries
                                                                                               on tobacco in the form
   Serial                                                                      Product                                      of
                                          Variety                                                   of whole or cut
    No                                                                          code                                   destination
                                                                                                  (unstripped) leaves       C)
                                                                                                   (Article 1 (2) (a))
      1        Badischer Geudertheimer                                     2401 10 70 0100                0,34             01
      2        Badischer Burley E                                          2401 10 20 0200                0,34             01
      3        Virgin D                                                    2401 10 10 0300                0,30             02
      4        (a) Paraguay                                                2401 10 70 0410                0,29             01
               (b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof, Philippin, Petit­    \                 \
                   Grammont (Flobecq), Semois, Appelterre                  2401 10 70 0420                0,34              01
      7        Bright                                                      2401 10 80 0700                0,30              02
      8        Burley I                                                    2401 10 20 0800                0,30              02
      9        Maryland                                                    2401 10 30 0900                0,30              02
     10        Kentucky                                                    2401 10 41 1000                0,44              02
     11        (a) Forchheimer Havana II c), e) Hybrids of Badischer     \\\\
                   Geudertheimer                                           2401 10 70 1110                0,29              01
     13        Xanti-Yaka                                                  2401 10 60 1300                0,37              03
     14        (a) Perustiza                                               2401 10 60 1410                0,37              03
               (b) Samsun                                                  2401 10 60 1420                0,25              03
     15        Erzegovina                                                  2401 10 60 1500                0,37              03
     16        (a) Round Tip                                               2401 10 90 1610
                                                                                             )                              02
               (b) Scafati                                                 2401 10 90 1620   >            0,61              02
               (c) Sumatra I                                               2401 10 90 1630   J                              02
     17        Basmas                                                      2401 10 60 1700                0,34              03
     18        Katerini and similar varieties                              2401 10 60 1800                0,34              03
     19        (a) Kaba Koulak classic                                     2401 10 60 1910                0,34              03
               (b) Elassona                                                2401 10 60 1920                0,34              03
     20        (a) Kaba Koulak non classic                                 2401 10 60 2010                0,44              03
               (b) Myrodata Smyrne, Trapezous, and Phi I                   2401 10 60 2020                0,44              03
     21        Myrodata Agrinion                                           2401 10 60 2100                 0,44             03
     22        Zichnomyrodata                                              2401 10 60 2200                 0,34             03
     23        Tsebelia                                                    2401 10 60 2300                 0,37             03
     24        Mavra                                                       2401 10 60 2400                0,37              03
     25        Burley EL                                                   2401 10 20 2500                0,30              02
     26        Virginia EL                                                 2401 10 10 2600                0,25              02
     27 '      Santa Fe                                                    2401 10 70 2700                0,34              01.
     28        Burley fermente                                             2401 10 70 2800                0,34              01
     29        Havana E                                                    2401 10 70 2900                0,34              01
     30        Round Scafati                                               2401 10 90 3000                0,37              02
     31        Virginia E                                                  2401 10 10 3100                0,25              02
     32        Burley E                                                    2401 10 20 3200                0,30              02
     33        Virginia P                                                  2401 10 10 3300                0,30              02
     34        Burley P                                                    2401 10 20 3400                0,30              02
(') 01 All third countries.
    02 All third countries except the United States and Canada.
    03 All third countries except Turkey and Yugoslavia.
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                                                                ANNEX II
                                                                                                                            (ECU/kg)
                                                                                           Amount of the refund         Countries
   Serial                                                                     Product             on threshed               of
    No
                                          Variety                              code       (totally stripped) tobacco   destination
                                                                                               (Article 1 (2) (b))          0
      1        Badischer Geudertheimer                                   2401 20 70 0100              0,47                 01
      2        Badischer Burley E                                        2401 20 20 0200              0,47                 01
      3        Virgin D                                                  2401 20 10 0300               0,42                02
      4        (a) Paraguay                                              2401 20 70 0410               0,40                 01
               (b) Dragon and hyrids thereof, Philippin,          Petit­
                   Grammont (Flobecq), Semois, Appelterre                2401 20 70 0420               0,47                 01
      7        Bright                                                    2401 20 80 0700               0,42                 02
      8        Burley I                                                   2401 20 20 0800              0,42                 02
      9        Maryland                                                   2401 20 30 0909              0,42                 02
     10        Kentucky                                                   2401 20 41 1000              0,61                 02
     11        (a) Forchheimer Havana II c), e) Hybrids of Badischer
                   Geudertheimer                                          2401 20 70 1110              0,40                 01
     23        Tsebelia                                                   2401 20 60 2300              0,52                 03
     25         Burley EL                                                 2401 20 20 2500              0,42                 02
     26        Virginia EL                                                2401 20 10 2600              0,36                 02
     27        Santa Fe                                                   2401 20 70 2700              0,47                 01
     28         Burley fermente                                           2401 20 70 2800              0,47                 01
     29         Havana E                                                  2401 20 70 2900              0,47                 01
     31        Virginia E                                                 2401 20 10 3100              0,36                 02
     32         Burley E                                                  2401 20 20 3200              0,42                 02
     33        Virginia P                                                 2401 20 10 3300              0,42                 02
     34         Burley P                                                  2401 20 20 3400              0,42                 02
(') 01 All third countries.
    02 All third countries except the United States and Canada.
    03 All third countries except Turkey and Yugoslavia.