Commission Regulation (EC) No 2021/98 of 23 September 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 laying down detailed rules concerning the aid for fibre flax and hemp
Date: 1998-09-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, flax, hemp, production aid

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2021/98

of 23 September 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 laying down detailed rules concerning
the aid for fibre flax and hemp

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

1. Article 14 is replaced by the following:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

‘Article 14

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70
of 29 June 1970 on the common organisation of the
market in flax and hemp (1), as last amended by the Act of
Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden and by Regula-
tion (EC) No 3290/94 (2), and in particular Article 2(6)
thereof,

Whereas Article 14 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1164/89 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1517/
98 (4), lays down the procedures for selecting the bodies
responsible for carrying out promotional measures in the
flax sector, and whereas in view of the importance of
studies assessing those measures, those procedures should
also apply to the selection of the bodies responsible for
those studies;

Whereas experience has shown that certain promotional
measures requiring a specialised knowledge of the use of
flax fibres and products obtained from them fall within
the scope of the activities of trade or inter-branch organ-
isations in the flax sector, and whereas, as a result, such
measures should receive Community assistance instead of
being financed under the public contracts procedure,
where the Commission recognises the usefulness of such
measures;

Whereas, as a result, Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89
should be amended;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

the
1. Without prejudice to paragraph 2 below,
measures referred to in Article 2(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1308/70 and contained in the detailed
programme, and the assessment of the results of those
measures, shall be carried out following the issue of
open or restricted invitations to tender. Open invita-
tions to tender shall be published in the Official
Journal of the European Communities.

Those measures referred to in the first indent of
2.
Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 whose
scope falls within the field of activity of the trade or
inter-branch organisations in the flax sector may, at
the request of those organisations, receive Community
assistance where the Commission recognises
the
usefulness of such measures.

The measures referred to in the preceding subpara-
graph shall be measures relating to technical or trade
information and public relations.';

2. the following paragraph is added to Article 15:

‘3.
For the purposes of assessing applications for
assistance, the Commission shall take account of the
quality and cost of the proposed measures, measures
already completed or in progress in the field in ques-
tion, and the results of the assessment of measures
carried out under previous campaigns. After it has
the
reached a decision on the grant of assistance,
Commission shall conclude contracts with the recipi-
ents. It shall inform the Management Committee for
intervals of contracts
Flax and Hemp at
regular
concluded and of
the measures
concerned.'

the progress of

Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 is hereby amended as
follows:

Article 2

(1) OJ L 146, 4. 7. 1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105.
(3) OJ L 121, 29. 4. 1989, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 200, 16. 7. 1998, p. 28.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 23 September 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission