Commission Regulation (EC) No 1135/98 of 29 May 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, 1997 and 1998 harvests
Date: 1998-05-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: France, Germany, Italy, guarantee threshold, production quota, tobacco

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30. 5. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1135/98

of 29 May 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, 1997 and 1998 harvests

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 9(5) thereof,

Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 intro-
duces a quota system for the various groups of tobacco
varieties; whereas the individual quotas have been dis-
tributed among producers on the basis of the guarantee
thresholds for 1998 fixed by Article 1 of Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 415/96 (3); whereas pursuant to Article 9(5)
of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 the Commission may
authorise 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 (4), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No
261/98 (5); 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 alloca-
tion of the additional quantities set in the second sub-
paragraph of Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 3478/92 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
842/98 (7);

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. Article 11a is replaced by:

‘Article 11a

1.
For the 1998 harvest, Member States are au-
thorised to transfer to another group of varieties, before
31 May 1998, threshold quantities of tobacco remai-
ning available following the distribution of quotas
pursuant to Article 8 of this Regulation.

The quantities referred to in paragraph 1 shall be

2.
limited to those set out in the Annex hereto.’;

2. the Annex to this Regulation replaces the 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, 29 May 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 59, 8. 3. 1996, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 108, 13. 5. 1995, p. 5.
(5) OJ L 25, 31. 1. 1998, p. 49.
(6) OJ L 351, 2. 12. 1992, p. 17.
(7) OJ L 120, 23. 4. 1998, p. 8.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Guarantee threshold quantities which each Member State is authorised to transfer from one
group of varieties to another

Member State

Group of varieties
from which transfer is made

Group of varieties
to which transfer is made

Germany

Italy

119 t of light air-cured
(group II)

130 t of dark air-cured
(group III)

1 329 t of light air-cured
(group II)

1 220 t of flue-cured
(group I)

300 t of sun-cured
(group V)

300 t of sun-cured
(group V)

300 t of sun-cured
(group V)

300 t of light air-cured
(group II)

300 t of dark air-cured
(group III)

240 t of flue-cured
(group I)

France

1 979 t of dark air-cured
(group III)

300 t of flue-cured
(group I)

1 400 t of light air-cured
(group II)’