Council Regulation (EC) No 470/2008 of 26 May 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as regards the transfer of tobacco aid to the Community Tobacco Fund for the years 2008 and 2009 and Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 with regard to financing of the Community Tobacco Fund
Date: 2008-05-26
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU policy, agricultural policy, financing of aid, fund (EU), production aid, tobacco

30.5.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is obligatory)

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REGULATIONS

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 470/2008

of 26 May 2008

amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as regards the transfer of tobacco aid to the Community
Tobacco Fund for the years 2008 and 2009 and Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 with regard to
financing of the Community Tobacco Fund

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community, and in particular
Article 37(2) thereof,

establishing the European
the third subparagraph of

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(3)

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Pursuant to Article 110j of Council Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003 (2) establishing common rules
for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy
and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and
amending certain Regulations tobacco aid is granted to
the producers of raw tobacco for the harvest years 2006
to 2009.

Article 104(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation
of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for
certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (3)
provides for the funding of
the Community Tobacco
Fund by the transfer of certain amount of tobacco aid
for the calendar years 2006 and 2007 in accordance
with Article 110m of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
The Community Tobacco Fund has always been funded
by the transfer of part of the tobacco aids. Such transfer
for calendar years 2006 and 2007 was initially proposed

(1) Opinion of 20 May 2008 (not yet published in the Official Journal).
(2) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 293/2008 (OJ L 90, 2.4.2008,
p. 5).

(3) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 361/2008 (OJ L 121, 7.5.2008, p. 1).

when the introduction of the tobacco sector into the
single payment scheme was to be accompanied by a
transitional tobacco aid to be paid in the same years.
Council Regulation
finally
extended the tobacco aid to 2008 and 2009 without
accordingly extending the funding of
the Community
Tobacco Fund by a reduction of the tobacco aid.

(EC) No 864/2004 (4)

Actions funded by the Community Tobacco Fund have
proved to be very successful as well as a positive example
of cooperation between agriculture and health policies. In
order to ensure the continuation of those actions, and
taking into account
the Fund has always been
funded by transfer from the tobacco aid, it is appropriate
to transfer an amount equal to 5 % of the tobacco aid
granted for the calendar years 2008 and 2009 to the
Community Tobacco Fund.

that

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Regulation (EC) No
1234/2007 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 110m of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be
replaced by the following:

‘Article 110m

Transfer to the Community Tobacco Fund

An amount equal to 4 % for the calendar year 2006 and 5 %
for the calendar years 2007, 2008 and 2009 of the aid
granted in accordance with this Chapter
finance
the Community Tobacco
information under
actions of
Fund provided for in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
2075/92.’

shall

(4) OJ L 161, 30.4.2004, p. 48, as corrected by OJ L 206, 9.6.2004,

p. 20.

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Article 104(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be replaced by the following:

Article 2

‘(b)

for the calendar years 2006 to 2009,
No 1782/2003.’

in accordance with Article 110m of Regulation (EC)

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 26 May 2008.

For the Council
The President

D. RUPEL