TITLE IVOTHER AID SCHEMES
F1CHAPTER 10CTOBACCO AID
Article 110kEligibility
The aid shall be granted to farmers who received a tobacco premium payment in accordance with Regulations (EEC) No 2075/92 in the calendar years 2000, 2001 and 2002, and to farmers who acquired tobacco production quotas during the period 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2005. The payment of the aid shall be subject to the following conditions:
- (a)
the tobacco must come from a production area referred to in Annex II to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2848/9837;
- (b)
the quality requirements defined in Regulation (EC) No 2848/98 must be fulfilled;
- (c)
the leaf tobacco must be delivered by the farmer to the premises of the first processor under a cultivation contract;
- (d)
it shall be made in such a way as to ensure equal treatment between farmers and/or according to objective criteria such as location of tobacco producers in an Objective 1 region or the production of varieties of a certain quality.
Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2004 of 29 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and adapting it by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union.