Commission Regulation (EC) No 2637/1999 of 14 December 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 laying down detailed rules for 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
Date: 1999-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, common organisation of markets, producer organisation, production aid, production quota, tobacco

L 323/8

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Official Journal of the European Communities

15. 12. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2637/1999

of 14 December 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 laying down detailed rules for 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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(4)

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 660/
1999 (2), and in particular Articles 11 and 14a thereof,

whose quotas will be bought back for the 2000 harvest
will be entitled should now be laid down, without preju-
dice to future amendments;

The quantities which have been the subject of a quota
buy-back application and the quantities bought back by
group of varieties under Article 35 of Regulation (EC)
No 2848/98, which must be notified to the Commission
under Article 54(j) of that Regulation, will not be avail-
able before 31 December 1999. The buy-back amounts
agreed for the 1999 harvest should therefore be retained
for the 2000 harvest;

Whereas:

(5)

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

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 of 22
December 1998 laying down detailed rules for 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 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2162/1999 (4), lays down 31 January of the year of
harvest as the date by which quota statements must be
issued to individual producers who are not members of
a producer group and to producer groups and allows the
competent authority of the Member State a period of 20
days in which to register written agreements between
individual producers on the permanent
transfer of
quotas;

More time is required to complete the procedures for
issuing quota statements and registering written agree-
ments on the transfer of quotas in certain Member States
in view of the administrative checks that must be carried
out,
in particular checks on parcels. The deadline for
issuing the quota statements to individual producers
who are not members of a producer group and to
groups of producers should therefore be extended by
one month and the period for registering written agree-
ments on the permanent transfer of quotas by 10 days;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 22(3) the words ‘31 January’ are replaced by ‘the

end of February’.

2. In Article 33(2) the word ‘twenty’ is replaced by the word

‘thirty’.

3. The following paragraph is added to Article 36:

‘Producers whose quotas have been bought back in respect
of the 2000 harvest will be entitled each year on payment
of the premiums for the 2001, 2002 and 2003 harvests to
the amounts indicated in the first paragraph in respect of
the 1999 harvest.’

(3)

Article 36 of Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 lays down the
amounts to be paid to producers whose quotas have
been bought back for the 1999 harvest under the quota
buy-back scheme. The amounts to which producers

(1) OJ L 215, 30.7.1992, p. 70.
(2) OJ L 83, 27.3.1999, p. 10.
(3) OJ L 358, 31.12.1998, p. 17.
(4) OJ L 265, 13.10.1999, p. 13.

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from the 2000 harvest.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission