Commission Regulation (EC) No 842/98 of 22 April 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3478/92 laying down detailed rules for the application of the premium system for raw tobacco
Date: 1998-04-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural guidance, location of production, product quality, production quota, tobacco

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Official Journal of the European Communities

23. 4. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 842/98

of 22 April 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3478/92 laying down detailed rules for the
application of the premium system for raw tobacco

THE 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 organisation of the
market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 2595/97 (2), and in particular Article 7 thereof,

Whereas, in accordance with Article 5(a) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2075/92, premiums are granted on leaf tobacco
from specified production areas only;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 1(2) of Commission Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3478/92 (3), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 284/98 (4), the list of such production areas is to
be reviewed each year and adapted, where necessary, to
quantitative and qualitative developments on the market;

Whereas such production areas are recognised depending
on whether they are traditional tobacco-producing areas;
whereas the Member States concerned may, with a view to
sound management of production of a particular group of
varieties and within their guarantee thresholds, apply for
such traditional production areas to be included on a list
of recognised production areas;

Whereas, following an application from Italy for Marche
to be included on the list of areas producing tobacco of
group IV and an application from France for Champagne-
Ardenne and Ile-de-France to be included on the list of
areas producing tobacco of group II and in view of the
fact that the three areas concerned are traditional produc-
tion areas, Annex I to Regulation (EEC) 3478/92 listing
recognised production areas should be amended;

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

Parts II (light air-cured) and IV (fire-cured) of Annex I to
Regulation (EEC) No 3478/92 are hereby replaced by the
Annex hereto.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from the 1998 harvest.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 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 351, 2. 12. 1992, p. 17.
(4) OJ L 28, 4. 2. 1998, p. 13.

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ANNEX

RECOGNISED PRODUCTION AREAS

Group of varieties in accordance
with the Annex to Regulation
(EEC) No 2075/92

Member
State

Production areas

II. Light air-cured

Belgium

Flanders, Hainaut, Namur, Luxembourg

Germany

Greece

France

Italy

Spain

Rhine valley and adjacent valleys, Mittelfranken,
Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western
Pomerania,
Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia

Macedonia, Thessaly

Midi-Pyr(cid:130)n(cid:130)es,

Aquitaine,
Auvergne-Limousin,
Alsace-Lorraine, Rh(cid:147)ne-Alpes, Franche-Comt(cid:130), Loire
Region, Centre, Poitou-Charente, Brittany, Burgundy
and Languedoc-Roussillon, Champagne-Ardenne, Ile-
de-France

Veneto, Lombardy, Piedmont, Umbria, Emilia-
Romagna, Lazio, Abruzzi, Molise, Campania, Basili-
cata, Apulia, Sicily, Friuli, Tuscany, Marche

Extremadura, Andalusia, Castile-Leon, Castile-La
Mancha

Portugal

Beiras, Ribatejo Oeste, Entre Douro e Minho, Tr(cid:145)s-os-
Montes, Autonomous Region of the Azores

Austria

Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria

Italy

Spain

Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Marche

Extremadura, Andalusia

IV. Fire-cured