Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 (repealed)Show full title

Article 3 U.K.

[F1 1. A maximum guaranteed quantity of 80 823 tonnes per marketing year shall be established for long flax fibre and apportioned among all the Member States as national guaranteed quantities. That quantity shall be apportioned as follows:

• 13 800 tonnes for Belgium,

• 1 923 tonnes for the Czech Republic,

• 300 tonnes for Germany,

• 30 tonnes for Estonia,

• 50 tonnes for Spain,

• 55 800 tonnes for France,

• 360 tonnes for Latvia,

• 2 263 tonnes for Lithuania,

• 4 800 tonnes for the Netherlands,

• 150 tonnes for Austria,

• 924 tonnes for Poland,

• 50 tonnes for Portugal,

• 73 tonnes for Slovakia,

• 200 tonnes for Finland,

• 50 tonnes for Sweden,

• 50 tonnes for the United Kingdom.]

2. [F1 A maximum guaranteed quantity of 146 296 tonnes per marketing year shall be established for short flax fibre and hemp fibre in respect of which aid may be granted. That quantity shall be apportioned in the form of:

(a) national guaranteed quantities for the following Member States:

• (a) 10 350 tonnes for Belgium,

• 2 866 tonnes for the Czech Republic,

• 12 800 tonnes for Germany,

• 42 tonnes for Estonia,

• 20 000 tonnes for Spain,

• 61 350 tonnes for France,

• 1 313 tonnes for Latvia,

• 3 463 tonnes for Lithuania,

• 2 061 tonnes for Hungary,

• 5 550 tonnes for the Netherlands,

• 2 500 tonnes for Austria,

• 462 tonnes for Poland,

• 1 750 tonnes for Portugal,

• 189 Tonnen für die Slowakei,

• 2 250 tonnes for Finland,

• 2 250 tonnes for Sweden,

• 12 100 tonnes for the United Kingdom.

However, the national guaranteed quantity fixed for Hungary concerns hemp fibre only.]

(b) 5 000 tonnes to be apportioned in national guaranteed quantities for each marketing year among Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg. Such apportionment shall be determined on the basis of the areas which were the subject of one of the contracts or commitments referred to in Article 2(1).

[F2 The national guaranteed quantities for short flax fibre and hemp fibre shall cease to apply from the 2008/2009 marketing year.]

3. In cases where the fibre obtained in one Member State originates from straw produced in another Member State, the quantities of fibre concerned shall be offset against the national guaranteed quantity of the Member State in which the straw was harvested. The aid shall be paid by the Member State against whose national guaranteed quantity such an offset is made.

4. Member States which wish to do so may transfer between themselves, on a one-off basis and before 30 June 2001, part of their national guaranteed quantities referred to in paragraphs 1 or 2, adjusted if necessary in accordance with paragraph 5. In such cases, they shall inform the Commission, which will notify the other Member States accordingly

5. Each Member State may transfer part of its national guaranteed quantity as referred to in paragraph 1 to its national guaranteed quantity as referred to in paragraph 2 and vice versa.

Transfers as referred to in the first subparagraph shall be carried out on the basis of an equivalence of one tonne of long flax fibre to 2,2 tonnes of short flax fibre and hemp fibre.

Processing aid shall be granted only in respect of the quantities referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, respectively, adjusted in accordance with the first two subparagraphs of this paragraph and paragraph 4.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded.

F2 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 953/2006 of 19 June 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000, as regards the processing aid for flax and hemp grown for fibre, and Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, as regards hemp eligible for the single payment scheme.