Commission Regulation (EC) No 261/98 of 30 January 1998 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: 1998-01-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, product quality, production quota, tobacco, tobacco industry

31. 1. 98

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 25/49

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 261/98

of 30 January 1998

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

1. the title is replaced by the following:

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 organisation of the
market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2595/97 (2), and in particular Article 11 thereof,

Whereas Regulation (EC) No 2595/97 extends to the
1998 harvest the system in force since the 1993 harvest;
whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 (3), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 987/97 (4), should
therefore be amended to make it applicable to the 1998
harvest;

Whereas, as a result of the date of adoption of the exten-
sion of the above system to the 1998 harvest, the Member
States are unable to respect the deadlines set by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1066/95; whereas those deadlines should
therefore be amended for the 1998 harvest;

Whereas the measures concerned should apply at
earliest opportunity;

the

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Tobacco,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

‘Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 of 12 May
1995 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, 1997 and
1998 harvests’;

2. the following text is added to the fourth paragraph of

Article 3:

‘For the 1998 harvest, Member States are authorised to
extend the deadline referred to in the second para-
graph above to 28 February.’;

3. the following text is added to the second subparagraph

of Article 11(3):

‘For the 1998 harvest, Member States are authorised to
extend the deadline referred to in the first subpara-
graph above to 31 May.’;

4. Article 17 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 17

For the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 harvests, Member
States may, for the purpose of applying Article 11(3),
bring together on a joint basis existing recognised
professional organisations until such time as the inter-
branch organisations recognised pursuant to Regula-
tion (EEC) No 2077/92 have been set up.’

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 is hereby amended as
follows:

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European
Communities.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 30 January 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 70.
(2) OJ L 351, 23. 12. 1997, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 108, 13. 5. 1995, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 141, 31. 5. 1997, p. 67.