Proposal for a Council Regulation correcting Regulation No 2075/92 on the common organisation of the market in raw tobacco
C 89 E/80 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 3. 2000 Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) correcting Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 on the common organisation of the market in raw tobacco (2000/C 89 E/15) COM(1999) 704 final - 1999/0283(CNS) (Submitted by the Commission on 17 December 1999) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, quantities transferred would be assigned to the producers in proportion to the average quantities delivered by them in the three years preceding the year of the most recent harvest, without taking account of the acquired right of the producer applying for the transfer. (3) The measure in question must apply from the 1999 harvest, Whereas: (1) Article 9(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 (1) assigns in proportion to the to producers production quotas the particular variety tobacco of average quantity of each individual for processing group delivered producer over the three years preceding that of the most recent harvest. by (2) Article 9(4) of that Regulation stipulates that, before the the conclusion of cultivation contracts, final date for Member States may be authorised to transfer parts of their guarantee threshold allocations to other variety groups, in accordance with paragraph 3. The words áin accordance with paragraph 3í were taken over from a provision that preceded the adoption of the transfer measure. So the reference to paragraph 3 in paragraph 4 should be deleted in view of the fact that transfers cannot occur under paragraph 3 without adversely affecting received production producers who, having quotas in proportion to the average quantity of tobacco delivered in the three years preceding the year of the most recent harvest, apply to cultivate other varieties responding the reference to paragraph 3 would mean in effect that the demand. Application of to market already HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 is hereby corrected as follows: The first subparagraph of Article 9(4) is replaced by the following: Before the final date for the conclusion of cultivation contracts, Member States may be authorised to transfer parts of their guarantee threshold allocations to other variety groups. í Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply from the 1999 harvest. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. (1) OJ L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 70. Regulation last amended by Regulation (EC) No 660/1999 (OJ L 83, 27. 3. 1999, p. 10)