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REGULATION (EEC) No 1470/74 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 June 1974 fixing for the 1974 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically COMMUNITIES , applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety is to be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in the Community and for the corresponding reference Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro­ quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has pean Economic Community ; not undergone first processing and preparation for market ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/ 70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by the Whereas, applying these rules and criteria to the Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 4 (4) situation on the market in raw tobacco, the premium thereof ; should be based on the prices for baled tobacco ; whereas international trade is in such tobacco ; whereas the price of third country and Community Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; baled tobacco should therefore be taken into con­ sideration ; whereas this price can be calculated for Community tobacco on the basis of the norm price Having regard to the Opinion of the European for each variety of leaf tobacco, as adjusted by Parliament ; a coefficient expressing the loss in weight resulting from first processing and from preparation for mar­ ket, and as increased by an amount representing Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to costs directly related to such processing and prep­ purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco aration ; is to secure the norm price and to ensure that tobacco produced in the Community is sold ;

Whereas it has been found that the cost price of Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at Community baled tobacco so calculated is higher an amount made up, for each variety, of a component than the price which would enable that tobacco to calculated with regard to foreseeable outlets on the compete with similar imported tobacco ; whereas the Community market and, where appropriate, the premium granted to purchasers of Community influence of trends in prices of imported tobaccos tobacco is intended to enable those purchasers to which are competitive as substitutes for tobacco pay to leaf tobacco producers a price which is the produced in the Community, and a standard com­ same as the norm price ; ponent designed to secure guaranteed price and income and to ensure that Community tobacco is sold ;

Whereas the difference between the price thus cal­ Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of the culated and the cost price was established at the premium for leaf tobacco outlets for baled tobacco baled tobacco stage ; whereas this difference should should be assessed ; whereas to this end the costs of be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a formula first processing and of market preparation for each similar to that described above ; variety should be taken into account ; whereas these costs should correspond to those of well-managed undertakings established in the Community ; whereas account should also be taken, for each variety , of Whereas , under the second subparagraph of Article 4 the average losses in weight resulting from first (3 ) of Regulation (EEC ) No 727/70 , the premium processing and preparation for market ; 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 C1) OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 1970, p. 1 . I2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972 , p. 14. in respect of the lowest quality of the Virgin SCR

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variety, since the value of this quality is substantially HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : lower than that of the reference quality;

Whereas the increases in the norm price and in first processing and market preparation costs for the 1974 harvest could entail a corresponding increase in the Sole Article amount of the premium ; whereas, however, the trend in world market prices in 1973 indicates that the objectives for which the premium was introduced For the 1974 harvest the amounts of the premium can be attained by leaving the amounts thereof, with granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco and provided the exception of three varieties of tobacco, at the for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall level fixed for the 1973 harvest, be as shown in the Annex.

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

Done at Luxembourg, 4 June 1974. For the Council The President

J. ERTL

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ANNEX

Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco

Serial Amount 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 1-200 (*)

4 a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof 1-048 b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof

5 Nijkerk 1-119

6 Burley (Burley X Bel ) 0-917

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

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

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Serial Amount No Varieties (u.a./kg)

13 a) Nostrano del Brenta

b) Resistente 142 1-180 c) Goj a no

14 Beneventano 0-805

15 Xanti-Yakà 1-435

16 Perustitza 1-348

17 Erzegovina and hybrids thereof 1-202

18 a) Round Tip b) Scafati 5-655

c) Sumatra I

19 a) Brasil Selvaggio 0-228 b) Other varieties

(*) Excluding the lowest quality ( Class III) for which the amount of the premium is 0-616 u.a./kg.