Article 15
United Kingdom
The beneficiaries of the measures referred to in Article 13 shall be producers of raw tobacco holding a tobacco production quota for the 2005 harvest in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 2848/98, located in a region to which Chapter 10c of Title IV of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 f1 applies and who undertake by 15 February 2006 at the latest to renounce their right to production aid for raw tobacco as provided for in that Chapter from the 2006 harvest.
Member States shall inform the Commission of the number of producers making such an undertaking and of the total quota volume concerned, broken down by group of varieties.
Beneficiaries may apply for assistance from the Fund for 2006 only.
The beneficiaries of the measures listed in Article 14 shall be:
public authorities in the production areas;
public research bodies specialising in agronomy and/or rural economy and designated by the Member States.