CELEX: 31988R3665
Language: en
Date: 1988-11-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3665/88 of 24 November 1988 fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1988 harvest

25. 11 . 88                                Official Journal of the European Communities                              No L 318/ 19
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3665/88
                                                       of 24 November 1988
                           fixing the export refunds on baled tobacco from the 1988 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 of the market                centimetres ;
in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 2267/88 (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 varie­
graph of Article 9 (2) thereof,                                       ties 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 coeffiient 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 (*), as last
 15 February 1971 laying down general rules for granting              amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2131 /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                                     i   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 1988
                                                                       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   199, 26. 7. 1988, p. 18 .
  (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.                               V) 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) ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the 1 January
(b) threshed (totally stripped) tobacco in the form of strips     1989 .
    measuring at least 0,5 centimetres, falling within CN
    code ex 2401 20 (Annex II).                                  it shall apply until 31 December 1989 .
                  This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                  States.
                  Done at Brussels, 24 November 1988 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                              Vice-President
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                                                                  ANNEX I
                                                                                                                                 (ECU/ke)
                                                                                                  Amount of the refund
                                                                                                                             Countries
                                                                                                 on tobacco in the form
     Serial                                                                     Product                                          of
                                            Variety                                                    of whole or cut
      No                                                                         code                                       destination
                                                                                                     (unstripped leaves)         (')
                                                                                                      (Article 1 (2) (a))
        1        Badischer Geudertheimer                                   2401 10 70^107                    034                01
   .    2        Badischer Burley E                                        2401 10 20 0207                   0,34               01
        3        Virgin D                                                  2401 10 10 0307                   0,30               02
   A 4           (a) Paraguay                                              2401 10 70 0417                   0,34               01
                                                                                            I
                 (b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof, Philippin, Petit-
   -
                     Grammont (Flobecq), Semois, Appelterre                2401 10 70 0427
                                                                                            I
                                                                                                             0,34               01
        7        Bright                                                    2401 10 80 0707                   0,30               02
        8        Burley I                                                  2401 10 20 0807                   0,30               02
        9        Maryland                                                  2401 10 30 0907                   0,30             , 02
       10        Kentucky                                                  2401 10 41 1007                   0,44               02
       11        (a) Forchheimer Havana II c)                               2401 10 70 1117                  0,34                01
       13        Xanti-Yaka                                                 2401 10 60 1307                  0,44                03
       14        (a) Perustiza                                              2401 10 60 1417        »         0,44                03
                 (b) Samsun                                                 2401 10 60 1427                  0,30                03
       15        Erzegovina                                                 2401 10 60 1507                   0,44               03
       16        (a) Round Tip                                              2401 10 90 1617 I )1                                 02
                 (b) Scafati                                                2401 10 90 1627                   0,72
                                                                                                              '
                                                                                                                                 02
                 (c) Sumatra I                                              2401 10 90 1637
                                                                                            Il                                   02
       17        Basmas                                                     2401 10 60 1707                   0,34               03
       18        Katerini and similar varieties '                           2401 10 60 1807                   0,34               03
       19        (a) Kaba Koulak classic                                    2401 10 60 1917                   0,34               03
                 (b) Elassona                                               2401 10 60 1927                   0,34               03
       20        (a) Kaba Koulak non classic                                2401 10 60 2017                   0,44               03
                 (b) Myrodata Smyrne, Trapezous, and Phi I                  2401 10 60 2027
                                                                                            \                 0,44               03
       21        Myrodata Agrinion                                          2401 10 60 2107                   0,44               03
       22        Zichnomyrodata                                             2401 10 60 2207                   0,34               03
       23        Tsebelia                                                   2401 10 60 2307                   0,44               03
       24        Mavra                                                      2401 10 60 2407                   0,44               03
       25         Burley EL                                                 2401 10 20 2507                   0,30               02
       26        Virginia EL                                                2401 10 10 2607 L                 0,30               02
       27        Santa Fe             -                                     2401 10 70 2707                   0,34               01
       28         Burley fermente                                           2401 10 702807                    0,34               01
       29         Havana E                                                  2401 10 70 2907                   0,34               01
       30        Round Scafati                                              2401 10 90 3007                   0,44               02
       31        Virginia E                                                 2401 10 10 3107                   0,30               02
       32         Burley E                                                  2401 10 20 3207                   0,30               02
       33        Virginia P                                                 2401 10 10 3307                   0,30               02
       34         Burley P                                                  2401 10 20 3407
                                                                                            L                 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))        (')
       1       Badischer Geudertheimer                                    2401 20 70 0107             0,47               01
       2       Badischer Burley E                                         2401 20 20 0207             0,47               01
       3       Virgin D                                                   2401 20 10 0307             0,42               02
       4       (a) Paraguay                                               2401 20 70 0417             0,47               01
               (b) Dragon and hyrids thereof, Philippin,          Petit­
                   Grammont (Flobecq), Semois, Appelterre                 2401 20 70 0427             0,47               01
       7 .     Bright                                                     2401 20 80 0707             0,42               02
       8       Burley I                                                   2401 20 20 0807             0,42               02
       9       Maryland                                                   2401 20 30 0907             0,42               02
     10        Kentucky                                                   2401 20 41 1007             0,61               02
     11        (a) Forchheimer Havana II c)                               2401 20 70 1117             0,47               01
     23        Tsebelia                                                   2401 20 60 2307             0,61               03
     25        Burley EL                                                  2401 20 20 2507             0,42               02
     26        Virginia EL                                                2401 20 10 2607             0,42               02
     27        Santa Fe                                                   2401 20 70 2707             0,47               01
     28        Burley fermente                                            2401 20 70 2807             0,47               01
     29        Havana E                                                   2401 20 70 2907             0,47               01
     31        Virginia E                                                 2401 20 10 3107             0,42               02
     32        Burley E                                                   2401 20 20 3207             0,42               02
                                                                          2401 20 10 3307             0,42               02
     33        Virginia P
                                                                          2401 20 20 3407             0,42               02
     34        Burley P
(') 01 All third countries ;
    02 All third countries except the United States and Canada.
    03 All third countries except Turkey and Yugoslavia.