31973R1364

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REGULATION (EEC) No 1364/73 OF THE COUNCIL of 15 May 1973

fixing the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco from the 1973 harvest

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, resulting from first processing and preparation for market ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically European Economic Community ; applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety should be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No the Community and for the corresponding reference 727/70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has organization of the market in raw tobacco, as last not undergone first processing and preparation for market ; amended by the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of Accession and the Adjustment to the Treaties, and in particular Article 4 (4) thereof; Whereas, application of these rules and criteria to the market situation in raw tobacco entails fixing the premium on the basis of the prices for baled tobacco ; Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; whereas there is international trade in this tobacco ; whereas the price of third country and Community baled tobacco should therefore be taken into Having regard to the Opinion of the European consideration ; whereas this price may be calculated Parliament ; for Community tobacco on the basis of the norm price for each variety of leaf tobacco, as adjusted by a coefficient expressing the loss in weight resulting Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to from first processing and from preparation for purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco is market, and as increased by an amount representing to secure the norm price and to ensure that there are costs directly related to such processing and outlets for tobacco produced in the Community; preparation ;

Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at Whereas it has been found that the cost price of an amount made up, for each variety, of a Community baled tobacco so calculated is higher component calculated with regard to available outlets than the price which would enable that tobacco to on the Community market and, where appropriate, compete with similar imported tobacco ; whereas the with regard to the influence of trends in prices of premium granted to purchasers of Community imported tobaccos which are competitive as tobacco is intended to enable those purchasers to pay substitutes for tobacco produced in the Community, to leaf tobacco producers a price which is the same as and of a standard component designed to secure the norm price; guaranteed price and income and to ensure that there are outlets for Community tobacco ; Whereas the difference between the price thus calculated and the cost price was established at the baled tobacco stage ; whereas this difference should Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of the be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a formula premium for leaf tobacco, available outlets for baled similar to that described above ; tobacco should be assessed ; whereas, to this end, the costs of first processing and of market preparation for each variety should be taken into account; Whereas tobacco prices on the international market whereas these costs should correspond to those of have not changed sufficiently since the premiums for well-managed undertakings established in the the 1972 harvest were fixed by Council Regulation Community ; whereas account should also be taken, ( EEC ) No 2483 /72 ( 3 ) of 29 November 1972, to for each variety, of the average losses in weight justify a change in the level of prices on the

(!) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p . 1 . (3) OJ No L 269, 30. 11 . 1972, p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p . 14 .

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Community market; whereas, moreover, the flat-rate Whereas all the factors taken into consideration for assessment of the costs of first processing and calculating the amount of the premium include those preparation for market, used when prices were last factors which are designed to enable the objectives of fixed, should again be used, since that assessment Article 4 ( 1 ) (b ) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 to may still be considered valid; whereas, consequently, be realized ; the increase in the norm price for the 1973 harvest should affect only the amount of the premiums ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article 4 (3 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70, the premium Sole Article may exceptionally be fixed at an amount above or below that normally applicable to all tobacco of a given variety ; whereas this possibility should be used The premiums referred to in Articles 3 and 4 of in respect of the, lowest quality of the Virgin SCR Regulation ( EEC) No 727/70 and granted to variety, since the value of this quality is substantially purchasers of leaf tobacco shall be as shown in the lower than that of the reference quality; Annex for each variety of the 1973 harvest.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 May 1973 .

For the Council The President

A. LAVENS

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ANNEX

Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco

Serial No Varieties u.a. /kg

1 ( a) Badischer Geudertheimer 1-338 ( b) Forchheimer Havanna II (c)

2 Badischer Burley E 1-335

3 Virgin SCR 1-180 i1)

4 ( a) Paraguay and hybrids 1-038 (b) Dragon vert and hybrids

5 Nijkerk 1-119

6 Burley (Burley X Bel) 0-917

7 ( a) Misionero and hybrids 1-002 (b) Rio Grande and hybrids

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 (b) Moro di Cori 0-546 ( c) Salento

13 ( a) Nostrano del Brenta ( b) Resistente 142 1-156 ( c) Goj ano

14 Beneventano 0-805

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Serial No Varieties u.a. /kg

15 Xanti-Yakà 1-435

16 Perustitza 1-348

17 Erzegovina and hybrids 1-202

18 ( a) Round Tip (b) Scafati 5-655 ( c) Sumatra I

19 ( a) Brasile Solvaggio 0-228 (b) other varieties

(J ) Excluding the lowest quality ( Class III ) for which the amount of the premium is 0-606 u.a./kg.