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Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2095/2005 is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

1.For each harvest, the producing Member States shall notify the Commission, by 31 July of the year following the harvest year, of the following information given as a total and, except for point (a), broken down by the raw tobacco variety groups referred to in paragraph 3:

(a)number of first processing enterprises;

(b)number of farmers;

(c)area in hectares;

(d)quantity delivered in tonnes;

(e)average price, excluding taxes and other levies, paid to farmers;

(f)stocks in tonnes at the end of June of the year following the harvest year concerned, held by the first processor.

The price referred to in point (e) shall be expressed in EUR per kg, using if necessary, the most recent exchange rate set by the European Central Bank prior to 1 January of the year following the harvest year.

2.For each harvest, the producing Member States shall notify the Commission, by 31 July of the ongoing harvest year, of the following information given as a total and broken down by the raw tobacco variety groups referred to in paragraph 3:

(a)estimated area in hectares;

(b)estimated production in tonnes.

3.The variety groups of raw tobacco are:

(a) Group I: Flue-cured

:

tobacco dried in ovens with controlled air circulation, temperature and humidity, in particular Virginia;

(b) Group II: Light air-cured

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tobacco dried in the air under cover, not left to ferment, in particular Burley and Maryland;

(c) Group III: Dark air-cured

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tobacco dried in the air under cover, left to ferment naturally before being marketed, in particular Badischer Geudertheimer, Fermented Burley, Havana, Mocny Skroniowski, Nostrano del Brenta and Pulawski;

(d) Group IV: Fire-cured

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tobacco dried by fire, in particular Kentucky and Salento;

(e) Group V: Sun-cured

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tobacco dried in the sun, also called ‘Oriental varieties’, in particular Basmas, Katerini and Kaba-Koulak.

4.Member States growing less than 3 000 hectares in the preceding harvest year may notify only the information referred to in points (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 and paragraph 2(a) and only given as a total without breakdown by raw tobacco variety groups.

5.The notifications referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009(1).’;

(2)

Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

Member States shall take the measures necessary to ensure that the economic operators concerned, including producer organisations, provide them with the information required within the relevant time limits.’;

(3)

Annexes IA, IB, II and III are deleted.