Commission Regulation (EC) No 1286/96 of 3 July 1996 amending Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the raw tobacco quota system for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 harvests
Date: 1996-07-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, Greece, Italy, product quality, production quota, tobacco













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31996R1286

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1286/96 of 3 July 1996 amending Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the raw tobacco quota system for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 harvests  


Official Journal L 165 , 04/07/1996 P. 0023 - 0024 





COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1286/96 of 3 July 1996 amending Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the raw tobacco quota system for the 1995, 1996 and 1997 harvestsTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 415/96 (2), and in particular Article 9 (5) thereof,Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 introduces a quota system for the various groups of tobacco varieties; whereas the individual quotas have been distributed among producers on the basis of the guarantee thresholds for 1996 fixed by Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 415/96; whereas under Article 9 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 the Commission may authorize Member States to transfer guarantee threshold quantities; whereas these quantities remain available in some Member States following distribution of the quotas pursuant to Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 259/96 (4); whereas the proposed transfers do not give rise to additional expenditure for the EAGGF and do not entail an increase in the total guarantee threshold for each Member State;Whereas this Regulation should apply before the deadline for registering contracts concluded following the allocation of the additional quantities set in the second subparagraph of Article 3 (1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3478/92 (5);Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Tobacco,HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 is amended as follows:(1) The following Article 11a is added:'Article 11a1. For the 1996 harvest, Member States are authorized to transfer to another group of varieties, before 15 July 1996, threshold quantities of tobacco remaining available following the distribution of quotas pursuant to Article 8 of this Regulation.2. The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be limited to those set out in the Annex hereto.`(2) The Annex to this Regulation is added as an Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1066/95.Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 3 July 1996.For the CommissionFranz FISCHLERMember of the Commission(1) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 70.(2) OJ No L 59, 8. 3. 1996, p. 3.(3) OJ No L 108, 13. 5. 1995, p. 5.(4) OJ No L 34, 13. 2. 1996, p. 14.(5) OJ No L 351, 2. 12. 1992, p. 17.ANNEX Guarantee threshold quantities which each Member State is authorized to transfer from one group of varieties to another >TABLE>