Commission Regulation (EC) No 1441/2001 of 16 July 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 in the raw tobacco sector as regards the amount to be paid to producers whose quotas for the 2001 and subsequent harvests are to be bought back
Date: 2001-07-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, producer organisation, production aid, production quota, tobacco

17.7.2001

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1441/2001

of 16 July 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 in the raw tobacco sector as regards the amount to be paid
to producers whose quotas for the 2001 and subsequent harvests are to be bought back

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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

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 1336/
2000 (2), and in particular Article 14a thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 36 of 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 385/2001 (4), fixes the amounts to which producers
are entitled when their quotas for the 1999 and 2000
harvests are bought under the quota buy-back scheme.
For the purpose of simplifying the scheme the fixing of
the amounts to which producers whose quotas for the
2001 and subsequent harvests are bought back will be
entitled should be made permanent by expressing those
amounts as a percentage of the production premium in
force during the year in which the buy-back application
is submitted, this without prejudice to future amend-
ments.

The quantities which were 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 in respect of the 1999 and 2000 harvests
were extremely small, while the average prices paid to
producers for a large part of the quantities of tobacco, in
particular for the group V varieties, remain extremely
low, and a large proportion of the stocks of tobacco of
that group remain unsold. The amounts to be paid for
buy-backs from the 2001 harvest on should therefore be
varied according to group of varieties and the annual
buy-back amount to be paid for group V should be
increased.

(3)

To prevent speculation during the 2001 harvest, for that
harvest only the increased amount should be granted
only to producers who have already held a quota for at
least one harvest.

(1) OJ L 215, 30.7.1992, p. 70.
(2) OJ L 154, 27.4.2000, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 358, 31.12.1998, p. 17.
(4) OJ L 57, 27.2.2001, p. 18.

In Article 36, the following subparagraphs are added to Regula-
tion (EC) No 2848/98:

‘Without prejudice to future amendments, producers whose
quotas for the 2001 and subsequent harvests have been
bought back shall be entitled, at the time of payment of the
premiums for the three consecutive harvests following the
one in question, to receive each year an amount equal to a
percentage of the premium referred to in Article 3(1) of
Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 applicable to the raw
tobacco produced during the year of the harvest in ques-
tion.

That percentage shall be:

(%)

Group of varieties

Group I quotas

Group II quotas

Group III quotas

Group IV quotas

Group V quotas

Group VI quotas

Group VII quotas

Group VIII quotas

1

25

25

25

25

75

25

25

25

Year

2

25

25

25

25

75

25

25

25

3

25

25

25

25

50

25

25

25

By derogation from the above subparagraph, producers
whose quotas for the 2001 harvest have been bought back
and who have held those quotas since the 2001 harvest
the
the time of payment of
only shall be entitled, at
premiums for the 2002, 2003 and 2004 harvests,
to
receive each year the amount referred to in the first
subparagraph for the 1999 harvest.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third 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, 16 July 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission