Commission Regulation (EC) No 2095/2005 of  20 December 2005  laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards communication of information on tobacco
Date: 2005-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, disclosure of information, dissemination of EU information, harvest, tobacco

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2095/2005

of 20 December 2005

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards
communication of information on tobacco

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 of 30
June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in raw
tobacco (1), and in particular Article 21 thereof,

Whereas:

In order to enable the Commission to monitor market
developments in the raw tobacco sector covered by the
common market organisation established by Regulation
(EEC) No 2075/92, Member States are required to
communicate the necessary information.

(6)

(7)

For the sake of clarity and rationality, Regulation (EC) No
604/2004 should be repealed and replaced by a new
regulation.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For each harvest, the Member States shall communicate to the
Commission by electronic transmission the information set out
in Annexes IA, IB, II and III in accordance with the time limits
given therein.

To that end, Commission Regulation (EC) No 604/2004
of 29 March 2004 on the communication of information
on tobacco from the 2000 harvest onwards (2) was
adopted.

The Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure
that the economic operators concerned provide them with the
information required within the relevant time limits.

Article 2

The information to be communicated should provide a
general overview of
the entire Community tobacco
market, and should in particular take into account the
provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of
29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy
and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (3)
and its implementing rules.

Article 3

1.

Regulation (EC) No 604/2004 is repealed.

However,
respect of the 2005 harvest.

it shall continue to apply to communications in

In the interest of efficient administration, the commu-
nicated information should be grouped by group of
tobacco variety and time limits should be set for its
submission.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed
2.
as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance
with the correlation table in Annex IV.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

It is therefore appropriate to adapt the provisions on the
information to be communicated accordingly.

(1) OJ L 215, 30.7.1992, p. 70. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1679/2005 (OJ L 271, 15.10.2005, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 97, 1.4.2004, p. 34.
(3) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (OJ L 24, 27.1.2005,
p. 15).

Article 4

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

It shall apply from 1 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX IA

Information to be communicated to the Commission by 31 July of the year of harvest concerned at the latest

Harvest:

.............................................................................

Declarant Member State:

............................................................................

Total number of farmers producing tobacco:

.............................................................................................................................................

Total number of first processors:

....................................................................................................................................................................

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ANNEX IB

Information to be communicated to the Commission by 31 July of the year of harvest concerned at the latest

Harvest: ...............................................................................................

Declarant Member State: ...........................................................

Group of varieties:

..........................................................................

Member State
of production
(declarant)

Member State
of production

Member State
of production

Member State
of production

Name:

Name:

Name:

1.

CULTIVATION CONTRACTS

1.1. Number of cultivation contracts recorded

1.2. Quantity of tobacco (in tonnes) of the moisture
content referred to in Annex XXVIII to Regu-
lation (EC) No 1973/2004 covered by the
contracts

1.3. Total area covered by the contracts (in hectares)

2.

FARMERS PRODUCING TOBACCO

2.1. Total number of farmers producing tobacco

2.2. Number of farmers belonging to a producer asso-

ciation

3.

FIRST PROCESSING ENTERPRISES

3.1. Number of first processing enterprises concluding

cultivation contracts

4.

PRICES (1)

4.1. Maximum price (EUR per kg) agreed in the culti-
in relevant currency excluding
Indicate the reference
levies.

vation contracts,
taxes and other
quality

4.2. Minimum price (EUR per kg) agreed in the culti-
in relevant currency excluding
Indicate the reference
levies.

vation contracts,
taxes and other
quality

(1) Member States using their national currency shall apply the conversion rate of 1 January of the year of the harvest.

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ANNEX II

Summary information to be communicated to the Commission by 30 June of the year following the year of
harvest concerned at the latest

Cumulative figures for the harvest concerned

Harvest: ...............................................................................................

Declarant Member State: ...........................................................

Group of varieties:

..........................................................................

Member State
of production
(declarant)

Member State
of production

Member State
of production

Member State
of production

Name:

Name:

Name:

1. Quantity delivered (in tonnes)

1.1. Total quantity of raw tobacco of the minimum
quality standard and moisture content referred
to Regulation (EC) No
to in Annex XXVIII
1973/2004

and moisture

1.2. Quantity of raw tobacco of the minimum quality
referred
standard
to Regulation (EC) No
to in Annex XXVIII
1973/2004 delivered through producer asso-
ciations

content

2. Actual quantity of raw tobacco (in tonnes) of the
standard delivered before
minimum quality
adjustment of the weight on the basis of the
moisture content

3. Average price (EUR per kg), excluding taxes and
first processing

levies, paid by

the

other
enterprises (1)

(1) Member States using their national currency shall apply the conversion rate of 1 January of the calendar year following the harvest.

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ANNEX III

Information to be communicated to the Commission by 31 July of the year following that of the harvest at the
latest

Movement of stocks (in tonnes) held by the first processors

Group of varieties

Harvest concerned

Declarant Member State: .........................................................................................

Date of declaration:

..................................................................................................

Quantities released to the
Community market
during the previous
marketing year (1)

Quantities released to
markets of third
countries during the
previous marketing
year (1)

Stock position on the
final day of the previous
marketing year (1)

(1) The marketing year is considered to run from 1 July of the year of the harvest to 30 June of the year following that of the harvest.

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ANNEX IV

Correlation table

Regulation (EC) No 604/2004

This Regulation

Articles 1 and 2

Articles 1 and 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

—

Article 3

Article 4

Annexes I, II and III

Annexes IB, II and III

—

Annex IV

Annex V

Annex IA

—

Annex IV