31975R0675

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REGULATION (EEC) No 675/75 OF THE COUNCIL of 4 March 1975

fixing for the 1975 harvest the amounts of the premium granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES , for each variety, of the average losses in weight resulting from first processing and preparation for Having regard to the Treaty establishing the market ; European Economic Community ; Whereas the amount of the premium theoretically Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/ applicable to all tobaccos of the relevant variety is 70 (*) of 21 April 1970 on the common organization to be fixed, for each of the varieties produced in the of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by the Community and for the corresponding reference Act of Accession (2), and in particular Article 4 (4) quality, per kilogramme of leaf tobacco which has thereof ; not undergone first processing and preparation for market; Having regard to Council Regulation No 129 (3) on the value of the unit of account and the exchange Whereas, applying these rules and criteria to the rates to be applied for the purposes of the common situation on the market in raw tobacco, the premium agricultural policy, as last amended by Regulation should be based on the prices for baled tobacco ; (EEC ) No 2543 /73 (4 ), and in particular Article 3 whereas international trade is in such tobacco ; thereof; Whereas it has been found that the cost price of Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ; baled tobacco produced in the Community is higher than the price which would enable that tobacco to Having regard to the Opinion of the European compete with similar imported tobacco and than the Parliament ; prices which potential buyers are prepared to pay ; Having regard to the Opinion of the Economic and whereas the premium granted to purchasers of Social Committee ; tobacco produced in the Community is intended to enable those purchasers to pay to leaf tobacco Whereas the purpose of the premium granted to producers a price which is the same as the norm purchasers of each of the varieties of leaf tobacco price ; is to secure the norm price and to ensure that tobacco produced in the Community is sold ; Whereas increasing integration is currently a feature of the market ; whereas the alterations to the norm Whereas, to this end, the premium must be fixed at price and the costs of first processing and market an amount made up, for each variety, of preparation which have been decided on for the 1975 a component calculated with regard to foreseeable harvest should therefore not be reflected in the outlets on the Community market and, where amount of the premium, but the premium should be appropriate, the influence of trends in prices of adjusted, account being taken of the trend in world imported tobaccos which are competitive as market prices, by reference to the prices established substitutes for tobacco produced in the Community, on the Community market by supply and demand ; and a standard component designed to secure guaranteed price and income and to ensure that Whereas the premium thus calculated was established tobacco produced in the Community is sold ; at the baled tobacco stage ; whereas this premium should be adjusted to the leaf tobacco stage by a Whereas, for the purpose of fixing the amount of formula similar to that described above ; the premium for leaf tobacco outlets for baled tobacco should be assessed ; whereas to this end the Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 475/75 (5 ) of costs of first processing and of market preparation 27 February 1975 on the exchange rates to be applied for each variety should be taken into account ; in agriculture has provided that as from 3 March whereas these costs should correspond to those of 1975 a representative rate shall be applied in respect well-managed undertakings established in the of the currencies of all the Member States ; whereas Community ; whereas account should also be taken, for tobacco, however, the economic effects of these representative rates will appear, in the Member States of which the representative rate has been revalued, only as from 1 Januarv 1976, in order to O OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970 , p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972 , p. 14. ( 3 ) OJ No 106, 30 . 10. 1962 , p . 2553/62. ( 4) OJ No L 263 , 19 . 9. 1973 , p. 1 . ( 5) OJ No L 52, 28 . 2. 1975 , p. 28 .

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avoid a reduction in the value of the national HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : currency ; whereas this provision would lead, as from that date, to a variation of the premiums fixed in Article 1 units of account for approximately half the 1975 harvest; whereas however it appears more appro­ priate to the characteristics of this agricultural sector For the 1975 harvest the amounts of the premium to ensure the same conditions for the whole of this granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco and provided year's harvest ; whereas this result can be reached for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 shall be as shown in the Annex . if the former exchange rate in the Member States in question is made applicable to the premiums paid for the 1975 harvest; Article 2 Whereas the Monetary Committee shall be consulted on the exchange rate ; whereas in view of the As from 1 January 1976 the exchange rate to be urgency there are grounds for drawing up the mea­ applied in Germany and the Benelux countries to the sures in question under the conditions set out in premiums for the 1975 tobacco harvest shall be that Article 3 (2) of Regulation No 129, in force before 3 March 1975 .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States . Done at Brussels , 4 March 1975 . For the Council The President M. A. CLINTON

ANNEX

Amount of the premium per kilogramme of leaf tobacco

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

1 a) Badischer Geudertheimer 1.390 b) Forchheimer Havanna II c)

2 Badischer Burley E 1.402

3 Virgin SCR 1-272

4 a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof 1.100 b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof

5 Nijkerk 1-119

6 Burley (Burley X Bel) 0.930

7 a) Misionero and hybrids thereof 1.028 b) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof

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

8 a) Philippin b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq) 0.765 c) Burley (Ergo X 6 410 and Ergo X Bursana)

9 a) Semois 0.918 b) Appelterre

10 Bright 1-100

11 a) Burley I 0-710

11 b) Maryland 0-848

12 a) Kentucky and hybrids thereof b) Moro di Cori 0-670 c) Salento

13 a) Nostrano del Brenta b) Resistente 142 1-180 c) Gojano

14 Beneventano 0.823

15 Xanti-Yakà * 1-445

16 Perustitza 1.358

17 Erzegovina and hybrids thereof 1-230

18 a) Round Tip b) Scafati 5-155 c) Sumatra I

19 a) Brasile Selvaggio 0-245 b) Other varieties