31974R1220

No L 133/ 18 Official Journal of the European Communities 16 . 5 . 74

REGULATION ( EEC) No 1220/74 OF THE COMMISSION

of 15 May 1974

fixing export refunds for raw tobacco for the 1973 crop

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN appropriate that a refund be granted for certain varie­ COMMUNITIES, ties only, limited to the 1973 crop and to the coun­ tries listed in the Annex ; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community ; Whereas the application of the abovementioned rules and criteria to existing conditions in the tobacco Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No market and in particular to prices in the Community 727/70 (') of 21 April 1970 on the common organiza­ and on the world market leads to the fixing of a tion of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by refund in the amounts quoted in the Annex in respect the Act (2) concerning the Conditions of Accession of the products therein listed, destined to the coun­ and the Adjustments to the Treaties, and in particular tries therein named ; the first sentence of the third subparagraph of Article 9 (2) thereof ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ Whereas by virtue of Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) ment Committee for Raw Tobacco, No 727/ 70 the difference between the world market prices of the products referred to in Article 1 of that Regulation and their prices within the Community HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : may be covered by an export refund ;

Whereas by virtue of Council Regulation (EEC) No Article 1 326/71 (3) of 15 February 1971 , laying down general The list of varieties of baled tobacco from the 1973 rules for granting export refunds on raw tobacco and crop in respect of which the export refund provided criteria for fixing the amount of such refunds, the for in Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 is granting of export refunds shall be limited to baled granted, the amounts of the refund, and the third tobacco produced from leaf tobacco harvested in the countries of destination, are as shown in the Annex. Community ; whereas the refunds shall be fixed for each variety produced in the Community in the light Article 2 of the factors indicated in Article 2(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 326/71 ; This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day Whereas, in view of the export opportunities available following its publication in the Official Journal of and of market conditions in the Community it is the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 May 1974 .

For the Commission

The President

Francois-Xavier ORTOLI

(!) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73, 27. 3. 1972, p. 14 . (*) OJ No L 39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 1 .

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ANNEX

Amounts of refund for the Serial number Varieties 1973 crop Countries of destination u.a. /kg

11 a Burley I 0-16 Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Spanish customs territory, Austria, and coun­ tries or states with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Arab Re­ public of Egypt and Portugal 12 a) Kentucky and 0-24 Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Spanish hybrids thereof customs territory, Switzerland and coun­ b) Moro di Cori tries or states with a planned economy c) Salento in central and eastern Europe, Arab Republic of Egypt and Portugal 13 a) Nostrano del 0-22 Austria, Spanish customs territory, Alge­ Brenta ria, Tunisia and countries or states with b) Resdstente 142 a planned economy in central and eastern c) Gojano Europe, Arab Republic of Egypt and Portugal 14 Beneventano 0-20 Austria, Spanish customs territory, Al­ geria, Tunisia and countries or states with a planned economy in central and eastern Europe, Arab Republic of Egypt and Portugal