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COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC) No 1169/ 77 of 17 May 1977 fixing, for the 1977 harvest, the norm and intervention prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf tobacco, and the derived intervention prices for baled tobacco

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN guarantee at the baled tobacco stage, and for the varie­ COMMUNITIES , ties which are principally grown in Germany, in order to take account of marketing practices in that Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European country ; whereas , to this end, both increased costs Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 and increased productivity should be taken into thereof, consideration ;

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization Whereas the premium granted to purchasers of of the market in raw tobacco ('), as last amended by Community tobacco is intended to enable them to the Act of Accession (2), and in particular Articles 2 pay producers of leaf tobacco a price which is at the (5), 4 (4) and 6 (8 ) thereof, level of the norm price ; whereas the amount of the premium should reflect the alterations to the norm Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, price and the costs of first processing adopted for the 1977 harvest, account being taken of the trend in Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­ world market prices and the level of prices established ment (3 ), by supply and demand on the Community market ;

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (4), Whereas the abovementioned prices and the amount of the premium must be fixed in relation to a refer­ Whereas, when fixing the prices for raw tobacco , ence quality defined in such a way that as objective as account should be taken both of the objectives of the possible an assessment can be made of the quality of common agricultural policy and of the contribution the tobacco ; whereas it is possible to adopt, for the which the Community intends to make to the 1977 harvest, the reference qualities defined by harmonious growth of world trade ; whereas the aims Council Regulation (EEC) No 673/75 of 4 March of the common agricultural policy are, in particular, to 1975 fixing, for the 1975 harvest, the norm prices, the provide the agricultural population with a reasonable intervention prices and the reference qualities for leaf standard of living, guarantee security of supplies and tobacco (6), and by Council Regulation ( EEC) No ensure fair prices for consumers ; 674/75 of 4 March 1975 fixing the derived interven­ tion prices and the reference qualities for baled Whereas the norm and intervention prices for leaf tobacco from the 1975 harvest ( 7) ; tobacco must be fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 2 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 727/70 in order, in particular, to encourage producers to convert to the cultivation of those varieties which Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 878 /77 of 26 April 1977 on the exchange rates to be applied in agri­ are most competitive and most in demand ; culture (8) provides that, from 1 May 1977, a new repre­ sentative rate shall be applied to the currencies of Whereas Council Regulation ( EEC) No 339 /77 of 14 certain Member States ; whereas this provision should February 1977 laying down special measures in the lead , from that date, to a reduction , in national tobacco sector in respect of the Beneventano variety currency terms, of the premiums fixed in units of of tobacco (5) has provided for a reduction of the inter­ account for a substantial part of the harvest in those vention price of these tobaccos ; Member States whose representative rate is revalued ; whereas it seems more appropriate to the nature of Whereas it is desirable to fix, in respect of the 1977 this sector that the same conditions should apply to harvest, derived intervention prices both for the varie­ the entire harvest in a given year ; whereas this objec­ ties which , before the common organization of the tive can be achieved if the former rate of exchange for market came into force , were subject to a price the Member States concerned were to remain appli­ cable to premiums paid for the 1976 harvest ; (') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4 . 1970 , p . 1 . (2 ) OJ No L 73 , 27 . 3 . 1972, p . 14 . (3 ) OJ No C 93 , 18 . 4 . 1977, p . 1 1 . (0) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p . 25 . (4 ) OJ No C 77, 30 . 3 . 1977, p . 15 . ( 7) OJ No L 72, 20 . 3 . 1975 , p . 32. (5 ) OJ No L 48 , 19 . 2 . 1977 , p . 4 . (8 OJ No L 106, 29 . 4 . 1977 , p . 27 .

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Whereas the Monetary Committee shall be consulted Article 2 on the exchange rates ; whereas, in view of the 1 . For the 1977 harvest, the reference qualities urgency, the measures envisaged should be adopted referred to in Article 2 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No under the conditions provided for in Article 3 (2) of 727/70, for each of the tobacco varieties produced in Council Regulation No 129 on the value of the unit the Community, shall be those laid down in Regula­ of account and the exchange rates to be applied for tion ( EEC) No 673/75 . the purposes of the common agricultural policy ('), as 2. For the 1977 harvest, the reference qualities last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2543/73 (2), referred to in Article 6 (3) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 , for each of the baled tobacco varieties HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : produced in the Community for which a derived inter­ vention price is fixed, shall be those laid down in Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 674/75. Article 3 For the 1977 harvest, the norm and intervention prices and the premiums granted to purchasers of leaf The exchange rates to be applied in Germany and the tobacco referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation Benelux countries for the purposes of the premiums (EEC) No 727/70, and the derived intervention prices for the 1976 harvest shall , until 31 December 1977, be for baled tobacco referred to in Article 6 of that Regu­ the representative rates applicable to the currencies in lation , shall be as shown in the Annex hereto . question prior to 1 May 1977.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 May 1977. For the Council

The President J. SILKIN

(<) OJ No 106, 30 . 10 . 1962, p . 2553/62. (2) OJ No L 263, 19 . 9. 1973, p. 1 .

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ANNEX

(u.aJkg) Amount Derived Serial No Varieties Norm price Intervention price of premium intervention price

1 (a) Badischer Geudertheimer 2-335 2-102 1-582 3-194 (b) Forchheimer Havanna II (c)

2 Badischer Burley E 2-790 2-511 1-623 3-590

3 Virgin D (Virgin SCR) 2-687 2-418 1-576 3-197

4 (a) Paraguay and hybrids thereof 2-040 1-836 1-270 — (b) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof

5 1-987 1-788 1-230 — Nijkerk

6 2-229 2-006 1-078 — Burley (Burley x Bel)

7 (a) Misionero and hybrids thereof 1-844 1-660 1-260 — (b) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof

8 (a) Philippin 1-583 1-425 0-911 — (b) Petit Grammont (Flobecq) (c) Burley (Ergo x 6410 and Ergo x Bursana)

9 (a) Semois 1-897 1-707 1-091 — (b) Appelterre

10 Bright 2-235 2-012 1-277 2-831

11(a) Burley I 1-667 1-500 0-793 2-257

11(b) Maryland 1-935 1-742 0-994 2-535

12 (a) Kentucky and hybrids thereof (b) Moro di Cori 1-703 1-533 0-763 2-195 (c) Salento

13 (a) Nostrano del Brenta (b) Resistente 142 1-659 1-493 1-202 2-243 (c) Gojano

14 Beneventano 1-295 1-036 0-904 1-582

15 Xanti-Yakà 2-434 2-191 1-474 3-477

16 Perustitza 2-305 2-075 1-399 3053

17 Erzegovina and hybrids thereof 2-070 1-863 1-254 2-751

18 (a) Round Tip (b) Scafati 10-856 9-770 5-400 14-793 (c) Sumatra I

19 (a) Brasile Selvaggio 1-114 1-003 0-320 — (b) Other varieties