31975R0773

26 . 3 . 75 No L 77/ 15 Official Journal of the European Communities

REGULATION (EEC) No 773/75 OF THE COMMISSION of 24 March 1975 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2603/71 on detailed rules for the conclusion of contracts for first processing and market preparation of tobacco held by inter­ vention agencies

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN down in Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 COMMUNITIES, and as regards the calculation of derived intervention prices, on the basis of the criteria laid down in Article Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 6 (2) of the same Regulation for calculating derived Economic Community ; intervention prices and are supplemented by current Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No costs of taking delivery and transportation calculated on a flat-rate basis ; 727/70 (') of 21 April 1970 on the common organiza­ tion of the market in raw tobacco, as last amended by Whereas the estimate of the cost of first processing the Act (2) concerning the conditions of accession and and market preparation adopted when the premiums the adjustments to the Treaties, and in particular and derived intervention prices for the 1974 and 1975 Article 7 (4) thereof ; crops were fixed has been revised upwards ; whereas account should also be taken of the increase in trans­ Whereas Article 1 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 327/71 (3 ) of 15 February 1971 laying down certain port and labour costs involved in taking delivery ; general rules relating to contracts for first processing whereas the amounts at present in force should there­ fore be altered ; and market preparation , to storage contracts and to disposal of tobacco held by intervention agencies Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation provides for contracts for first processing and market are in accordance with the Opinion of the Manage­ preparation to be concluded by means of an invitation ment Committee for Raw Tobacco, to tender ; whereas contracts may be awarded only to the most favourable tender and provided it does not exceed an amount to be determined for each variety ; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Whereas these amounts were fixed by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2603/71 (4) of 6 December 1971 Article 1 on detailed rules for the conclusion of contracts for first processing and market preparation of tobacco The Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2603/71 is held by intervention agencies, as amended by Regula­ replaced by the Annex to this Regulation . tion (EEC) No 477/73 (5) ; whereas, in order to main­ tain a balance between prices for tobacco for which a Article 2 premium is granted, for baled tobacco bought in by intervention agencies and for tobacco which under­ This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day goes first processing and market preparation , the following its publication in the Official Journal of amounts are fixed on the basis of the criteria laid the European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 March 1975 . For the Commission

P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission

(') OJ No L 94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 1 . (2) OJ No L 73 , 27. 3 . 1972, p. 14. (3) OJ No L 39, 17. 2. 1971 , p. 3 . (4) OJ No L 269, 8 . 12. 1971 , p. 11 . (5) OJ No L 53, 26 . 2. 1973, p. 68 .

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ANNEX

Amount referred to in Article 1 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 327/71

Amount u.a. /kg Serial No Varieties of leaf tobacco

1 a) Badischer Geudertheimer 0.468 b ) Forchheimer Havanna II c)

2 Badischer Burley E 0.470

3 Virgin SCR 0.340

4 a ) Paraguay and hybrids thereof 0.253 b ) Dragon vert and hybrids thereof 5 Nijkerk 0-253

6 Burley ( Burley X Bel ) 0.379

7 a ) Misionero and hybrids thereof 0.316 b ) Rio Grande and hybrids thereof

8 a ) Philippin b ) Petit Grammont ( Flobecq ) 0.272 c ) Burley ( Ergo X 6410 and Ergo X Bursana )

9 a ) Semois 0.274 b ) Appelterre

10 Bright 0.459

11 a ) Burley I 0.479 b ) Maryland

12 a ) Kentucky and hybrids thereof b ) Moro di Cori 0-374 c ) Salento 13 a) Nostrano del Brenta b ) Resistente 142 0-480 c ) Cojano

14 Beneventano 0.358 15 Xanti-Yakà 0-780

16 Perustitza 0.536 17 Erzegovina and hybrids thereof 0-486 18 a ) Round Tip b ) Scafati 3.034 c ) Sumatra I : 19 a ) Brasile Selvaggio 0.344 b ) Other varieties