Commission Regulation (EC) No 1135/98 of 29 May 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the raw tobacco quota system for the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 harvests

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1135/98 of 29 May 1998 amending Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as regards the raw tobacco quota system for the 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 harvests
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
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Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 of 30 June 1992 on the common organisation of the market in raw tobacco (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2595/97 (2), and in particular Article 9(5) thereof,
Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 introduces a quota system for the various groups of tobacco varieties; whereas the individual quotas have been distributed among producers on the basis of the guarantee thresholds for 1998 fixed by Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 415/96 (3); whereas pursuant to Article 9(5) of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 the Commission may authorise Member States to transfer guarantee threshold quantities; whereas these quantities remain available in some Member States following distribution of the quotas pursuant to Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/95 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 261/98 (5); whereas the proposed transfers do not give rise to additional expenditure for the EAGGF and do not entail an increase in the total guarantee threshold for each Member State;
Whereas this Regulation should apply before the deadline for registering contracts concluded following the allocation of the additional quantities set in the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3478/92 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 842/98 (7);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Tobacco,