CELEX: 51988PC0084(08)
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-27
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 727/70 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN RAW TOBACCO

31. 3. 88                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No C 84/31
            ensure the transition from the arrangements                                        Article 2
            applicable during the verification of convergence
            phase or the first stage to the second phase or
            stage.                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
    5. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to            European Communities.
    tomatoes, satsumas, Clementines, mandarins and
    nectarines during the period of application of Articles         This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
    16(3a) and 16a.'                                                applicable in all Member States.
                   Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 on the
                                      common organization of the market in raw tobacco
                                                       COM(88) 84 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 February 1988)
                                                          (88/C 84/18)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            The following paragraph 5 is added to Article 4:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                        '5. Each year and in accordance with the procedure
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,
                                                                        provided for in Article 43(2) of the Treaty, the Council
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      shall fix a maximum guaranteed quantity in particular
                                                                        in the light of market requirements for each variety or
In cooperation with the European Parliament,                            group of varieties of Community-produced tobacco for
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                 which prices and premiums are fixed. The overall
Committee,                                                              maximum quantity for the Community shall be fixed at
                                                                        385 000 tonnes of leaf tobacco for each of the 1988,
Whereas, in order to curb any increase in the Community's               1989 and 1990 harvests.
tobacco production and at the same time to discourage the
growing of varieties which are difficult to dispose of,                 Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 12a and
provision should be made for a proportional reduction in                13, for each 1 % by which the maximum guaranteed
the prices and premiums if production exceeds a maximum                 quantity is exceeded per variety or group of varieties,
guaranteed quantity fixed for each harvest; whereas certain             the norm and intervention prices and the premiums
costs are added to the intervention price to obtain the                 concerned shall be reduced by 1 %. The reduction shall
derived intervention price; whereas the application of the              not exceed 5 % for the 1988 harvest and 15 % for the
reduction coefficient to the derived intervention price must            1989 and 1990 harvests.
not affect such costs;
                                                                        For the purposes of applying this paragraph, the
Whereas the maximum quantity must be established in the                 Commission shall establish before 31 July whether
light of production statistics and the market situation;                production exceeds the maximum guaranteed quantity
whereas in order to continue to implement a policy aimed                for a variety or group of varieties.
at encouraging the most sought-after varieties and to take
account of specific regional features of tobacco production,            Detailed rules for the application of this paragraph shall
a maximum guaranteed quantity should be fixed for each                  be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
variety or group of varieties; whereas provision should be              in Article 17.'
made, for a limited period, for a ceiling on any reduction in
the prices and premiums; whereas Regulation (EEC) No
727/70 should be amended accordingly,                                                          Article 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                       This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                    following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                           Article 1                               European Communities.
Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is hereby amended as                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
follows:                                                            applicable in all Member States.