No L1 82/.8 Official _]oumal"’ofuthe'Européaﬁ Communities - 13. 7. 88 COMMISSION "REGULATION (EEC) No 2072/88 of 12 July 1988 derogating from Regulation (E‘EC) No 1726/70 as regards the time_limits for - concluding and registering cultivation contracts in respect of leaf tobacco THE .COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, " Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation v(EEC) No 727/70 of 21 April 1970 on the common organization of the market in raw tobacco (!), as last amended by Regulation (EEC). No 1114/88 (%), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 3 (3) thereof, Whereas Article 2b of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70 of 25 August 1970 on the procedure for granting the premium for leaf tobacco(’), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1791/86 (¥), provides that cultivation declarations and contracts must be concluded before 1 May and registered before 1 July of the year in which they take effect; ‘ Whereas, owing to adverse weather conditions which have delayed the preparations of seed beds, some of the parti- culars which must appear in the cultivation contracts cannot be known until after the deadline for the conclu- sion of the said contracts ; whereas this is one of the cases, specified in the second subparagraph of Article 2b (3) of Regulation (EEC). No 1726/70, where the Commission is authorized to take appropriate measures, and may accor- States. Done at Brussels, 12 July 1988. () OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 1. () OJ No L 110, 29. 4. 1988, p. 35. - () OJ No L 191, 27. 8. 1970, p. 1. () OJ No L 156, 11. 6. 1986, p. 16. / dingly defer the said deadline and, therefore, the deadline for registering the cultivation declarations and -contracts ; Whereas-the measures provided for-in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Tobacco, R HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 By way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 2b (3) and the first indent of Article 2b (6) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1726/70, cultivation declarations and contracts in respect of leaf tobacco taking effect in 1988 may be concluded up to 30 June 1988 'and regis- tered up to 31 July 1988. S Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. It shall apply with effect from 1 May 1988. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member For tbg Commission Frans ANDRIESSEN Vice-President