CELEX: 31974R1470
Language: en
Date: 1974-06-04 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1470/74 of the Council of 4 June 1974 fixing for the 1974 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco

20 . 6 . 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 165/3
                                REGULATION (EEC) No 1470/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                       of 4 June 1974
              fixing for the 1974 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers of leaf
                                                           tobacco
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically
COMMUNITIES ,                                                     applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety is
                                                                  to be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in the
                                                                 Community and for the corresponding reference
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­               quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has
pean Economic Community;                                         not undergone first processing and preparation for
                                                                  market;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/
70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common organization
of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by the              Whereas, applying these rules and criteria to the
Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 4 (4)             situation on the market in raw tobacco, the premium
thereof;                                                         should be based on the prices for baled tobacco;
                                                                  whereas international trade is in such tobacco ;
                                                                  whereas the price of third country and Community
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;               baled tobacco should therefore be taken into con­
                                                                  sideration ; whereas this price can be calculated for
                                                                  Community tobacco on the basis of the norm price
Having regard to the Opinion of the European                      for each variety of leaf tobacco, as adjusted by
Parliament;                                                       a coefficient expressing the loss in weight resulting
                                                                  from first processing and from preparation for mar­
                                                                  ket, and as increased by an amount representing
Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to                     costs directly related to such processing and prep­
purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco               aration ;
is to secure the norm price and to ensure that tobacco
produced in the Community is sold;
Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at                Whereas it has been found that the cost price of
                                                                  Community baled tobacco so calculated is higher
an amount made up, for each variety, of a component
calculated with regard to foreseeable outlets on the              than the price which would enable that tobacco to
                                                                  compete with similar imported tobacco ; whereas the
Community market and, where appropriate, the
                                                                  premium granted to purchasers of Community
influence of trends in prices of imported tobaccos
                                                                  tobacco is intended to enable those purchasers to
which are competitive as substitutes for tobacco                  pay to leaf tobacco producers a price which is the
produced in the Community, and a standard com­
                                                                  same as the norm price;
ponent designed to secure guaranteed price and
income and to ensure that Community tobacco is
sold ;
                                                                  Whereas the difference between the price thus cal­
Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of the              culated and the cost price was established at the
premium for leaf tobacco outlets for baled tobacco                baled tobacco stage ; whereas this difference should
should be assessed ; whereas to this end the costs of             be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a formula
first processing and of market preparation for each               similar to that described above ;
variety should be taken into account; whereas these
costs should correspond to those of well-managed
undertakings established in the Community; whereas
account should also be taken, for each variety, of
the average losses in weight resulting from first                 Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 4
processing and preparation for market;                            (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70, the premium
                                                                  may exceptionally be fixed at an amount above or
                                                                  below that normally applicable to all tobacco of a
C1) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 1970, p. 1 .                               given variety ; whereas this possibility should be used
I2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14.                             in respect of the lowest quality of the Virgin SCR
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variety, since the value of this quality is substantially     HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
lower than that of the reference quality;
Whereas the increases in the norm price and in first
processing and market preparation costs for the 1974
harvest could entail a corresponding increase in the                               Sole Article
amount of the premium ; whereas, however, the
trend in world market prices in 1973 indicates that
the objectives for which the premium was introduced           For the 1974 harvest the amounts of the premium
can be attained by leaving the amounts thereof, with          granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco and provided
the exception of three varieties of tobacco, at the           for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall
level fixed for the 1973 harvest,                             be as shown in the Annex.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Luxembourg, 4 June 1974.
                                                                                   For the Council
                                                                                    The President
                                                                                      J. ERTL
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                                                 ANNEX
                       Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco
            Serial                                                            Amount
                                            Varieties
             No                                                               (u.a. /kg)
              1    a) Badischer Geudertheimer
                                                                            1-338
                   b) Forchheimer Havanna II c)
              2    Badischer Burley E                                       1-335
              3    Virgin SCR                                               1-200 (*)
              4    a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof
                                                                            1-048
                   b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof
              5    Nijkerk                                                  1-119
              6    Burley (Burley X Bel)                                    0-917
              7    a) Misionero and hybrids thereof
                                                                            1-002
                   b) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof
              8    a) Philippin
                   b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq)                              0-697
                   c) Burley (Ergo X 6410 and Ergo X Bursana)
              9    a ) Semois
                                                                            0-876
                   b) Appelterre
            10     Bright                                                   1-118
            11 a)  Burley I                                                 0-688
            11 b)  Maryland .                                               0-848
            12     a) Kentucky and hybrids thereof
                   b) Moro di Cori                                          0-546
                   c) Salento
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                 Serial                                                                                            Amount
                                                                Varieties
                  No                                                                                               (u.a./kg)
                   13           a) Nostrano del Brenta
                                b) Resistente 142                                                                1-180
                                c) Goj a no
                  14            Beneventano                                                                      0-805
                  15            Xanti-Yakà                                                                       1-435
                  16            Perustitza                                                                       1-348
                  17            Erzegovina and hybrids thereof                                                   1-202
                  18             a) Round Tip
                                b) Scafati                                                                       5-655
                                c) Sumatra I
                  19             a) Brasil Selvaggio
                                                                                                                 0-228
                                b) Other varieties
             (*) Excluding the lowest quality ( Class III) for which the amount of the premium is 0-616 u.a./kg.