Commission Regulation (EC) No 489/2006

of 24 March 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, as regards varieties of hemp grown for fibre eligible for direct payments

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 [1], and in particular Article 52(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 of 21 April 2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers [2] lays down the rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, concerning, inter alia, the conditions for the verification of the tetrahydrocannabinol content in hemp growth.

(2) In accordance with Article 33(2) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, the Member States have notified to the Commission the results of the tests to determine the tetrahydrocannabinol levels in the hemp varieties sown in 2005. Those results should be taken into account when drawing up the list of varieties of hemp grown for fibre eligible for direct payments in the coming marketing years and the list of varieties temporarily authorised for the marketing year 2006/2007. For the verification of the tetrahydrocannabinol content, some of those varieties should be submitted to procedure B provided for in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 796/2004.

(3) Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Direct Payments,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from the marketing year 2006/2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 March 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Regulation (EC) No 319/2006 (OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 32).

[2] OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 18. Regulation last amended by Regulation (EC) No 263/2006 (OJ L 46, 16.2.2006, p. 24).

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ANNEX

"ANNEX II

VARIETIES OF HEMP GROWN FOR FIBRE ELIGIBLE FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS

(a) Hemp grown for fibre

Beniko

Carmagnola

CS

Delta-Llosa

Delta 405

Dioica 88

Epsilon 68

Fedora 17

Felina 32

Felina 34 — Félina 34

Ferimon — Férimon

Fibranova

Fibrimon 24

Futura 75

Juso 14

Red Petiole

Santhica 23

Santhica 27

Tiborszállási

Uso-31

(b) Hemp grown for fibre authorised in the marketing year 2006/2007

Bia?obrzeskie

Chamaeleon [1]

Cannakomp

Fasamo

Fibriko TC

Finola [1]

Kompolti hibrid TC

Kompolti

Lipko

Silesia [2]

UNIKO-B

[1] For the marketing year 2006/2007 procedure B of Annex I shall apply.

[2] Only in Poland, as authorised by Commission Decision 2004/297/EC (OJ L 97, 1.4.2004, p. 66)."

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