No L 185/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 7.7 81 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1859/81 of 6 July 1981 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 on intervention procedure for raw tobacco THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular Atticles 6 (10) and 12a (3) thereof, Whereas Article 12a of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 provides that where the quantities of baled tobacco of a given variety and harvest offered for intervention by an undertaking engaged in first processing and market preparation exceed a certain percentage of the produc- tion of that undertaking the intervention price is reduced ; Whereas, in order to facilitate supervision and prevent abuse of the measure, it is necessary, for undertakings which have several checkpoints, that production should be considered separately for each of the places for which supervision and the premium certificate were instituted by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 of 25 August 1970 on the procedure for granting the premium for leaf tobacco (?), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3477/80 (%) ; Whereas the premium certificate is to be drawn up for each variety at the time the leaf tobacco is placed under supervision, and is supplemented as and when first processing and packaging of the tobacco takes place ; whereas such certificate is required when the tobacco is taken over by intervention ; whereas it there- fore shows both the quantity of leaf processed and the quantity of baled tobacco produced ; whereas it accord- ingly makes it possible to ascertain the ratio between production and deliveries to intervention ; Whereas the equivalence between the quantities of baled tobacco produced and the quantities of leaf tobacco from which it was obtained needs to be expressed in a processing coefficient, differentiated according to variety, representing the losses in weight which occur during the first processing and market preparation operations and which are considered (1) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1. () OJ No L 191, 27. 8. 1970, p. L. (%) OJ No L 363, 31. 12. 1980, p. 81. normal for well-managed undertakings established in the Community ; Whereas, to be able to calculate the price to be applied to quantities offered for intervention, the inter- vention agency needs to know, in respect of each offer made by an undertaking, whether the total production of that undertaking for which intervention was requested is involved or whether only a part of the production is involved ; Whereas there should be no question of permitting, in that part of the production which is to be paid at the full derived intervention price, only those qualities to be offered for which the price to be paid, taking the quality increases into account, would be the highest ; whereas, to that end, it is necessary to apply an average derived intervention price calculated propor- tionately to the quantities of the different qualities which make up the total quantity offered ; whereas the procedure for payment in cases where the quanti- ties offered are delivered in different stages needs to be specified ; Whereas Commission  Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 290/81 (%), should therefore be amended ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage- ment Committee for Tobacco, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1727/70 is hereby amended as follows : 1. The following subparagraph is added to Article 1 M: ‘Al] baled tobacco offered for intervention by a first processing and market preparation undertaking shall be accompanied by a declaration specifying, for the variety and the harvest concerned, whether the undertaking intends subsequently to offer other quantities for intervention. () OJ No L 191, 27. 8. 1970, p. 5. () O] No L 32, 4. 2. 1981, p. 9.