31973R0132

No L 17/20 Official Journal of the European Communities 20 . 1 . 73

REGULATION (EEC) No 132/73 OF THE COMMISSION of 4 January 1973 fixing export refunds for tobacco

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN available and of market conditions in the Com­ COMMUNITIES , munity it is appropriate that a refund be granted in respect of varieties Burley I and Xanti-Yaka from the 1971 crop destined to countries listed in the Annex ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ pean Economic Community ; Whereas the application of the abovementioned Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/ rules and criteria to existing conditions in the to­ 70 ( 1 ) of 21 April 1970 on the common organization bacco market and in particular to prices in the Com­ of the market in raw tobacco, as amended by Regu­ munity and on the world market leads to the fixing lation (EEC) No 1574/71 (2), and in particular the of a refund in the amounts quoted in the Annex in first sentence of the third subparagraph of Article respect of the products therein listed, destined to 9 (2 ) thereof ; the countries therein named ;

Whereas by virtue of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) Whereas the Management Committee for Tobacco No 727/70 the difference between the world market has not delivered an opinion within the time pre­ prices of the products referred to in Article 1 of that scribed by its Chairman ; Regulation and their prices within the Community may be covered by an export refund ;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas by virtue of Council Regulation (EEC) No 326/71 (3 ) laying down general rules for granting export refunds on raw tobacco and criteria for fix­ Article 1 ing the amount of such refunds, the granting of ex­ port refunds shall be limited to baled tobacco pro­ The list of varieties of baled tobacco from the 1971 duced from leaf tobacco harvested in the Com­ crop in respect of which the export refund provided munity ; whereas the refunds shall be fixed for each for in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC ) No 727/70 is variety produced in the Community in the light of the granted, the amounts of the refund, and the third factors indicated in Article 2 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) countries of destination, are as shown in the Annex. No 326/71 ; Article 2 Whereas under Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 326/71 the refund for tobacco of a given variety This Regulation shall enter into force on the third may vary according to its crop year and to its desti­ day following its publication in the Official Journal nation ; whereas in view of the export opportunities of the European Communities .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 4 January 1973 . For the Commission

The President

S.L. MANSHOLT

(») OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 . 1970, p . 1 . (2) OJ No L 167, 26. 7. 1971 , p . 1 . (3) OJ No L 39 , 17. 2 . 1971 , p . 3 .

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ANNEX

Amounts of refund for the Serial number Varieties Countries of destination 1971 crop u . a . /kilogramme

11a Burley I 018 Far East countries, Algeria, Morocco Tunisia, Egypt, USSR, Poland, Hungary Romania, Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia Yugoslavia, Albania

15 Xanti-Yakà 0·29 All countries excepting Austria, Switzer­ land , Liechtenstein, the United Kingdom. Ireland and the territories of the King­ dom of Denmark