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PART IIINTERNAL MARKET

TITLE IMARKET INTERVENTION

CHAPTER IVAid schemes

Section V Community Tobacco Fund

Article 104Tobacco Fund

1.A Community Tobacco Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Fund) shall be set up to finance measures in the following areas:

(a)improving public awareness of the harmful effects of all forms of tobacco consumption, in particular through information and education, support for the collection of data to establish tobacco consumption patterns and to conduct epidemiological studies on nicotinism in the Community, and a study on preventing nicotinism;

(b)specific measures to help tobacco growers to switch to other crops or other economic activities that create employment and studies of the possibilities for tobacco growers to do so.

2.The Fund shall be financed:

(a)for the 2002 harvest by a deduction of 2 % and for the 2003, 2004 and 2005 harvests, of 3 % of the premium provided for in Title I of Regulation (EEC) No 2075/92 as applicable until and including the 2005 harvest for the financing of any kind of measures provided for in paragraph 1;

(b)for the calendar years 2006 and 2007, in accordance with Article 110m of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.

3.Detailed rules for the application of this Article shall be adopted by the Commission.