Commission Regulation (EC) No 145/2008 of 19 February 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system provided for 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
Date: 2008-02-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, farmers' income, farming system, hemp, production aid

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 145/2008

of 19 February 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of cross-
compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system provided for 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

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
and
(EC) No
amending
1452/2001,
(EC)
No 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,

certain
Regulations
(EC) No 1453/2001,

(EC) No 1454/2001,

for
2019/93,

(EEC) No

schemes

support

farmers

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 (2) lays down
the rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003, concerning,
the conditions for
the verification of the tetrahydrocannabinol content in
hemp growth.

inter alia,

In accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No
796/2004,
the Member States have notified to the
Commission the results of the tests to determine the
tetrahydrocannabinol
levels in the hemp varieties sown
in 2007. Those results should be taken into account
when drawing up the list of varieties of hemp eligible
for direct payments in the coming marketing years and

the list of varieties
marketing year 2008/2009.

temporarily authorised for

the

Following a request submitted by Romania in accordance
with Article 33(4) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, two
new varieties of hemp should be included as eligible for
direct payments.

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)

(5)

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 2008/2009.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 February 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
L 284,

(EC) No 1276/2007 (OJ

Commission Regulation
30.10.2007, p. 11).

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

lation (EC) No 1550/2007 (OJ L 337, 21.12.2007, p. 79).

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ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

VARIETIES OF HEMP ELIGIBLE FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS

(a) Hemp varieties

Beniko
Carmagnola

Chamaeleon

CS

Delta-Llosa
Delta 405

Denise

Dioica 88
Epsilon 68

Fedora 17

Felina 32
Felina 34 – Félina 34
Ferimon - Férimon

Fibranova
Fibrimon 24

Futura 75

Kompolti
Red Petiole

Santhica 23

Santhica 27
Silesia

Uso-31

(b) Hemp varieties authorised in the marketing year 2008/2009

Bialobrzeskie

Cannakomp
Diana (1)
Fasamo

Kompolti hibrid TC
Lipko

Lovrin 110

Silvana
UNIKO-B
Zenit (1)

(1) Only in Romania, as authorised by Commission Decision 2007/69/EC (OJ L 32, 6.2.2007, p. 167).’