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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1941/87

of 3 July 1987

derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 as regards the time limits for concluding and registering cultivation contracts in respect of leaf tobacco

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 1576/86 (2), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 3 (3) thereof,

Whereas Article 2b of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 of 25 August 1970 on the procedure for granting the premium for leaf tobacco (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1791/86 (4), provides that cultivation declarations and contracts must be concluded before 1 May and registered before 1 July of the year in which they take effect;

Whereas, owing to adverse weather conditions which have delayed the preparations of seed beds, some of the particulars which must appear in the cultivation contracts cannot be known until after the deadline for the conclusion of the said contracts; whereas this is one of the cases, specified in the second subparagraph of Article 2b (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70, where the Commission is authorized to take appropriate measures, and may accordingly defer the said deadline and, therefore, the deadline for registering the cultivation declarations and contracts;

Whereas in Spain the agency responsible for registering cultivation contracts and declarations has just been set up; whereas later deadlines should be fixed for concluding and registering cultivation contracts and declarations in respect of tobacco grown in that country in the light of the fact that that agency has yet to become operational;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Tobacco,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 2b (3) and the first indent of Article 2b (6) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70, cultivation declarations and contracts in respect of leaf tobacco taking effect in 1987 may be concluded up to 30 June 1987 and registered up to 31 July 1987.

However, in the case of Spain, these time limits shall be deferred to 31 August 1987 and 30 September 1987 respectively.

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect from 1 May 1987.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 July 1987.

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 139, 24. 5. 1986, p. 1.

(3) OJ No L 191, 27. 8. 1970, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 156, 11. 6. 1986, p. 16.