Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/2001 of 17 January 2001 derogating, for the 2000/01 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 laying down detailed rules concerning the aid for fibre flax and hemp
Date: 2001-01-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, derogation from EU law, flax, flood, hemp, production aid

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 88/2001

of 17 January 2001

derogating, for the 2000/01 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No
1164/89 laying down detailed rules concerning the aid for fibre flax and hemp

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 Regulation (EC) No 2702/
1999 (2), and in particular Article 4(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

For the purposes of granting the aid for flax and hemp
referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70,
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1313/2000 (4),
lays
down conditions whereby areas may be deemed to have
been harvested. Article 8(1) of that Regulation sets a
time limit
for lodging aid applications for flax and
hemp. During the 2000/01 marketing year exceptional
circumstances have delayed the harvest and affected its
quality in some areas. To take account of this particular
situation, special conditions applicable to the 2000/01
marketing year harvest in the areas concerned should be
provided for.

(2)

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

Article 1

The first subparagraph of Article 4(a) of Regulation (EEC) No
1164/89 notwithstanding, in the zones set out in the Annex,
areas affected by floods making the operation defined in that
provision impossible may, to the exclusion of all others, be
deemed to have been harvested in respect of the 2000/01
marketing year, provided that they have been completely sown
and normal cultivation work has been carried out on them and
it is proved to the satisfaction of the Member State that the end
of the growing cycle of the crop is the result of the afore-
mentioned floods.

Article 2

Article 8(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1164/89 notwithstanding,
for the 2000/01 marketing year, aid applications for the areas
deemed to have been harvested within the meaning of Article 1
of this Regulation may be lodged no later than 30 April 2001.

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 August 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 January 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 146, 4.7.1970, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 327, 14.12.1999, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 121, 29.4.1989, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 148, 22.6.2000, p. 34.

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The following zones in the United Kingdom: South-West, Wessex, South-East, East Midlands, North-East, North Mercia,
South Wales, Scotland.

ANNEX