CELEX: 31977R1169
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-17 00:00:00
Title: Council Regulation (EEC) No 1169/77 of 17 May 1977 fixing, for the 1977 harvest, the norm and intervention prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, and the derived intervention prices for baled tobacco

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                                         COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1169/77
                                                           of 17 May 1977
              fixing, for the 1977 harvest, the norm and intervention prices and the premiums
              granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, and the derived intervention prices for
                                                            baled tobacco
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                          guarantee at the baled tobacco stage, and for the varie­
COMMUNITIES,                                                         ties which are principally grown in Germany, in order
                                                                     to take account of marketing practices in that
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                country ; whereas, to this end, both increased costs
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                     and increased productivity should be taken into
thereof,                                                              consideration ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization                    Whereas the premium granted to purchasers of
of the market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by                  Community tobacco is intended to enable them to
the Act of Accession (2), and in particular Articles 2                pay producers of leaf tobacco a price which is at the
(5), 4 (4) and 6 (8) thereof,                                         level of the norm price ; whereas the amount of the
                                                                      premium should reflect the alterations to the norm
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    price and the costs of first processing adopted for the
                                                                      1977 harvest, account being taken of the trend in
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                  world market prices and the level of prices established
ment (3),                                                             by supply and demand on the Community market ;
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
Social Committee (4),
                                                                      Whereas the abovementioned prices and the amount
                                                                      of the premium must be fixed in relation to a refer­
Whereas, when fixing the prices for raw tobacco,                      ence quality defined in such a way that as objective as
account should be taken both of the objectives of the                 possible an assessment can be made of the quality of
common agricultural policy and of the contribution                    the tobacco ; whereas it is possible to adopt, for the
which the Community intends to make to the                             1977 harvest, the reference qualities defined by
harmonious growth of world trade ; whereas the aims                   Council Regulation (EEC) No 673/75 of 4 March
of the common agricultural policy are, in particular, to               1975 fixing, for the 1975 harvest, the norm prices, the
provide the agricultural population with a reasonable                 intervention prices and the reference qualities for leaf
standard of living, guarantee security of supplies and                tobacco (6), and by Council Regulation ( EEC) No
ensure fair prices for consumers ;                                    674/75 of 4 March 1975 fixing the derived interven­
                                                                      tion prices and the reference qualities for baled
Whereas the norm and intervention prices for leaf                     tobacco from the 1975 harvest (7) ;
tobacco must be fixed in accordance with the criteria
laid down in Article 2 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No
727/70 in order, in particular, to encourage producers
to convert to the cultivation of those varieties which                Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 878 /77 of 26
are most competitive and most in demand ;                             April 1977 on the exchange rates to be applied in agri­
                                                                      culture (8) provides that, from 1 May 1977, a new repre­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 339/77 of 14                      sentative rate shall be applied to the currencies of
 February 1977 laying down special measures in the                    certain Member States ; whereas this provision should
                                                                       lead , from that date, to a reduction , in national
tobacco sector in respect of the Beneventano variety
of tobacco (5) has provided for a reduction of the inter­             currency terms, of the premiums fixed in units of
vention price of these tobaccos ;                                     account for a substantial part of the harvest in those
                                                                       Member States whose representative rate is revalued ;
Whereas it is desirable to fix, in respect of the 1977                whereas it seems more appropriate to the nature of
 harvest, derived intervention prices both for the varie­              this sector that the same conditions should apply to
 ties which , before the common organization of the                    the entire harvest in a given year ; whereas this objec­
 market came into force, were subject to a price                       tive can be achieved if the former rate of exchange for
                                                                       the Member States concerned were to remain appli­
(')  OJ No  L 94,   28 . 4. 1970 , p. 1.                               cable to premiums paid for the 1976 harvest ;
(2 ) OJ No  L 73 ,  27 . 3. 1972,  p. 14 .
(3 ) OJ No  C  93 , 18 . 4. 1977,  p. 1 1.                             (0) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p . 25 .
(4 ) OJ No  C  77,  30 . 3. 1977,  p. 15 .                             ( 7) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p . 32.
(5 ) OJ No  L 48 ,  19 . 2. 1977 , p. 4.                               (8 OJ No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977 , p . 27 .
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Whereas the Monetary Committee shall be consulted                                       Article 2
on the exchange rates ; whereas, in view of the                  1 . For the 1977 harvest, the reference qualities
urgency, the measures envisaged should be adopted               referred to in Article 2 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
under the conditions provided for in Article 3 (2) of           727/70, for each of the tobacco varieties produced in
Council Regulation No 129 on the value of the unit              the Community, shall be those laid down in Regula­
of account and the exchange rates to be applied for             tion (EEC) No 673/75.
the purposes of the common agricultural policy ('), as
last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (2),                2. For the 1977 harvest, the reference qualities
                                                                referred to in Article 6 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                727/70 , for each     of the baled     tobacco varieties
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :                                   produced in the Community for which a derived inter­
                                                                vention price is fixed, shall be those laid down in
                        Article 1                               Regulation (EEC) No 674/75.
                                                                                        Article 3
For the 1977 harvest, the norm and intervention
prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf           The exchange rates to be applied in Germany and the
tobacco referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation            Benelux countries for the purposes of the premiums
(EEC) No 727/70, and the derived intervention prices             for the 1976 harvest shall, until 31 December 1977, be
for baled tobacco referred to in Article 6 of that Regu­        the representative rates applicable to the currencies in
lation, shall be as shown in the Annex hereto.                  question prior to 1 May 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 17 May 1977.
                                                                            For the Council
                                                                              The President
                                                                               J. SILKIN
(<) OJ No 106, 30. 10. 1962, p. 2553/62.
(2) OJ No L 263, 19 . 9. 1973, p. 1 .
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                                                        ANNEX
                                                                                                                    (u.aJkg)
                                                                                              Amount         Derived
 Serial No                       Varieties                    Norm price Intervention price of premium intervention price
       1   (a) Badischer Geudertheimer                          2-335          2-102           1-582         3-194
           (b) Forchheimer Havanna II (c)
      2    Badischer Burley E                                   2-790          2-511           1-623         3-590
      3    Virgin D (Virgin SCR)                                2-687          2-418           1-576         3-197
      4    (a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof                     2-040          1-836           1-270           —
           (b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof
      5    Nijkerk                                              1-987          1-788           1-230           —
      6    Burley (Burley x Bel)                                2-229          2-006           1-078           —
      7    (a) Misionero and hybrids thereof                    1-844          1-660           1-260           —
           (b) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof
      8    (a) Philippin
           (b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq)                         1-583          1-425          0-911            —
           (c) Burley (Ergo x 6410 and Ergo x Bursana)
      9    (a) Semois                                           1-897          1-707           1-091           —
           (b) Appelterre
     10    Bright                                               2-235          2-012           1-277         2-831
    11(a)  Burley I                                             1-667          1-500          0-793          2-257
    11(b)  Maryland                                             1-935          1-742          0-994          2-535
     12    (a) Kentucky and hybrids thereof
           (b) Moro di Cori                                     1-703          1-533          0-763          2-195
           (c) Salento
     13    (a) Nostrano del Brenta
           (b) Resistente 142                                   1-659          1-493           1-202         2-243
           (c) Gojano
     14    Beneventano                                          1-295          1-036          0-904          1-582
     15    Xanti-Yakà                                           2-434          2-191           1-474         3-477
     16    Perustitza                                           2-305          2-075           1-399         3053
     17    Erzegovina and hybrids thereof                       2-070          1-863           1-254         2-751
     18    (a) Round Tip
           (b) Scafati                                         10-856          9-770           5-400       14-793
           (c) Sumatra I
     19    (a) Brasile Selvaggio                                1-114          1-003          0-320            —
           (b) Other varieties