Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1413/91 of 29 May 1991 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 on the procedure for granting the premium for leaf tobacco

COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1413/91  of 29 May 1991  amending Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 on the procedure for granting the premium for leaf tobacco
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3577/90 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 3 (3) thereof,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70 provides that among the conditions required to qualify for the premium, the purchaser must have concluded a European cultivation contract with the producer; whereas the conditions and requirements relating  to cultivation contracts are laid down in Article 2b of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 4263/88 (4);
Whereas Article 2b of Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 provides that declarations of cultivation and cultivation contracts must be concluded before 1 June and registered before 1 August of the year during which they enter into application; whereas, in order  better to verify the application of the Community provisions and in particular compliance with the overall maximum guaranteed quantity for the Community fixed in Article 4 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 727/70, in view of the special conditions existing in  the Member States, the Member States should be authorized to fix deadlines earlier than those dates, which are to vary by variety;
Whereas the quantity produced on the area mentioned in the contract must correspond to the normal production conditions for each variety; whereas it should accordingly be stipulated that a European cultivation contract cannot cover any tobacco produced  in excess of the yield laid down for the variety concerned in the descriptions in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2501/87 of 24 June 1987 fixing the characteristics of each variety of tobacco grown in the Community (5), as last amended by  Regulation (EEC) No 838/91 (6);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Raw Tobacco,