Commission Regulation (EC) No 510/1999 of 8 March 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 on the raw tobacco sector as regards the setting of certain time limits and Annex II in which the production areas are fixed
Date: 1999-03-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, producer organisation, production aid, production quota, restriction on competition, tobacco

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Official Journal of the European Communities

9. 3. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 510/1999

of 8 March 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 on the raw tobacco sector as regards the
setting of certain time limits and Annex II in which the production areas are
fixed

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 1636/98 (2), and in particular Articles 7 and 11
thereof,

Whereas, in the absence of a Council decision on the
Commission proposal (3) setting the maximum guarantee
thresholds for the 1999, 2000 and 2001 harvests, for the
1999 harvest the Member States cannot meet the time
limits for issuing quota statements to producers or the
time limits for concluding cultivation contracts fixed by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 of 22
December 1998 laying down detailed rules
the
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as
regards the premium scheme, production quotas and the
specific aid to be granted to producer groups in the raw
tobacco sector (4); whereas these time limits must be post-
poned;

for

Whereas, in accordance with Article 5(a) of Regulation
(EEC) No 2075/92, the grant of the premium is subject to
the condition that the leaf tobacco comes from a specified
production area for each variety;

Whereas these areas of production, in accordance with
Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2848/98, are fixed in
Annex II to that Regulation;

Whereas, following France’s request to include (cid:238)le de
France in the list of Group II production areas it was
noticed that (cid:238)le de France already existed in a number of
language versions but that the regions of Provence-Alpes-
C(cid:147)te d’Azur, Picardy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Normandy and

R(cid:130)union were missing, and following Germany’s request
to include ‘Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'
in the list of
Group III production areas without the word ‘westliches',
Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 2848/98,
listing the
recognised production areas, should be corrected;

Whereas these measures should be applied forthwith;

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 2848/98 is amended as follows:

1. the following paragraphs 2 and 3 are added to Article

55:

‘2.
For the 1999 harvest, by derogation from Article
22(3), the Member States shall issue the quota state-
ments to individual producers who are not members of
a group and to producer groups by 15 April at the
latest.

For the 1999 harvest, by derogation from Article
3.
10(1),
the cultivation contracts must be concluded,
except in cases of force majeure, by 30 June at the
latest.';

2. Annex II is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

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, 8 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 70.
(2) OJ L 210, 20. 7. 1998, p. 23.
(3) OJ C 361, 24. 11. 1998, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 358, 31. 12. 1998, p. 17.

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

RECOGNISED PRODUCTION AREAS

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

Member
State

I.

Flue-cured

Germany

Greece

France

Italy

Spain

Portugal

Production areas

Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Bavaria, Rheinland-
Pfalz, Baden-W(cid:129)rttemberg, Hessen, Saarland, Branden-
burg, Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt,
Thuringia

Thrace, Eastern Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Western
Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus, Eastern Central Greece,
Western Central Greece, Peloponnese

Aquitaine, Midi-Pyr(cid:130)n(cid:130)es, Auvergne-Limousin, Cham-
pagne-Ardenne, Alsace-Lorraine, Rh(cid:147)ne-Alpes, Franche-
Comt(cid:130), Provence-Alpes-C(cid:147)te
d’Azur, Loire Region,
Centre, Poitou-Charente, Brittany, Languedoc-Roussillon,
Normandy, Burgundy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais,
Picardy,
(cid:238)le-de-France

Friuli, Veneto, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Marche,
Umbria, Lazio, Abruzzi, Molise, Campania, Basilicata,
Apulia, Calabria

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

Beira Interior, Ribatejo Oeste, Alentejo, Autonomous
Region of the Azores

II.

Light air-cured

Austria

Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria

Belgium

Germany

Greece

France

Italy

Spain

Portugal

Flanders, Hainaut, Namur, Luxembourg

Bavaria, Rheinland-Pfalz, Baden-W(cid:129)rttemberg, Hessen,
Saarland, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Saxony,
Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia

Eastern Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Western Mace-
donia, Thessaly

Aquitaine, Midi-Pyr(cid:130)n(cid:130)es, Auvergne-Limousin, Alsace-
Lorraine, Rh(cid:147)ne-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-C(cid:147)te
d’Azur,
Franche-Comt(cid:130), Loire Region, Centre, Poitou-Charente,
Brittany, Burgundy, Languedoc-Roussillon, Champagne-
Ardenne,
Picardy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Normandy,
R(cid:130)union and Ile-de-France

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

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

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

III. Dark air-cured

Belgium

Germany

Flanders, Hainaut, Namur, Luxembourg

Rheinland-Pfalz, Baden-W(cid:129)rttemberg, Hessen, Saarland,
Bavaria, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Saxony,
Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia

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

Member
State

Production areas

France

Italy

Spain

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

Aquitaine,
Languedoc-Roussillon,
Auvergne-Limousin, Poitou-Charente, Brittany, Loire
Region, Centre, Rh(cid:147)ne-Alpes,
Provence-Alpes-C(cid:147)te
d’Azur, Franche-Comt(cid:130), Alsace-Lorraine, Champagne-
Ardenne,
Picardy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Normandy,
Burgundy, R(cid:130)union

Friuli, Trentino, Veneto, Tuscany,
Campania, Apulia, Sicily

Lazio, Molise,

Extremadura, Andalusia, Castile-Leon, Castile-La Mancha,
Valencia (Autonomous Community), Navarre, Rioja, Catal-
onia, Madrid, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria,
area of
Compezo in the Basque Country, La Palma (Canary
Islands)

Austria

Burgenland, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria

IV.

Fire-cured

V.

Sun-cured

Italy

Spain

Greece

Veneto, Tuscany, Umbria, Lazio, Campania, Marche

Extremadura, Andalusia

Western Macedonia, Thessaly, Epirus, Eastern Central
Greece, Western Central Greece, Peloponnese, Thrace and
islands

Italy

Lazio, Abruzzi, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Apulia, Sicily

VI.

Basmas

Greece

Thrace, Eastern Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Western
Macedonia, Thessaly, Western Central Greece

VII. Katerini
varieties

and

similar

Greece

Eastern Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Western Mace-
donia, Thessaly, Epirus, Eastern Central Greece, Western
Central Greece

VIII. Kaba Koulak

classic,
Elassona, Myrodata de
Agrinion, Zichnomyro-
data

Greece

Eastern Macedonia, Central Macedonia, Western Mace-
donia, Thessaly, Epirus, Eastern Central Greece, Western
Central Greece, Peloponnese and islands, Thrace'