Commission Regulation (EC) No 489/2006 of  24 March 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, as regards varieties of hemp grown for fibre eligible for direct payments
Date: 2006-03-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, hemp, production aid, textile fibre

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 489/2006

of 24 March 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, as regards varieties of hemp grown for fibre eligible for
direct payments

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to 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 and amending Regulations
(EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001,
(EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC)
No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and
(EC) No 2529/2001 (1), and in particular Article 52(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

system provided for

Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 of 21 April
2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation
of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated
administration and control
in
Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing
common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy and establishing certain
support schemes for farmers (2) lays down the rules for
the application of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,
concerning, inter alia, the conditions for the verification
of the tetrahydrocannabinol content in hemp growth.

(2)

In accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No
the Member States have notified to the
796/2004,
Commission the results of the tests to determine the
levels in the hemp varieties sown
tetrahydrocannabinol

in 2005. Those results should be taken into account
when drawing up the list of varieties of hemp grown
for fibre eligible for direct payments in the coming
marketing years and the list of varieties temporarily
authorised for the marketing year 2006/2007. For the
verification of the tetrahydrocannabinol content, some
of those varieties should be submitted to procedure B
to Regulation (EC) No
provided for
796/2004.

in Annex I

Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

(3)

(4)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 is replaced by the
text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from the marketing year 2006/2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 March 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 319/2006 (OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 32).

(2) OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 18. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 263/2006 (OJ L 46, 16.2.2006, p. 24).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

VARIETIES OF HEMP GROWN FOR FIBRE ELIGIBLE FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS

(a) Hemp grown for fibre

Beniko

Carmagnola

CS

Delta-Llosa

Delta 405

Dioica 88

Epsilon 68

Fedora 17

Felina 32
Felina 34 — Félina 34
Ferimon — Férimon

Fibranova

Fibrimon 24

Futura 75

Juso 14

Red Petiole

Santhica 23

Santhica 27

Tiborszállási

Uso-31

(b) Hemp grown for fibre authorised in the marketing year 2006/2007

Białobrzeskie

Chamaeleon (1)

Cannakomp

Fasamo

Fibriko TC

Finola (1)

Kompolti hibrid TC

Kompolti

Lipko

Silesia (2)

UNIKO-B

(1) For the marketing year 2006/2007 procedure B of Annex I shall apply.
(2) Only in Poland, as authorised by Commission Decision 2004/297/EC (OJ L 97, 1.4.2004, p. 66).’