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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1125/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/1125",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1125/2008 of 13 November 2008 apportioning, for the 2008/09 marketing year, 5 000 tonnes of short flax fibre and hemp fibre as national guaranteed quantities between Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1125",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1125/2008\nof 13 November 2008\napportioning, for the 2008/09 marketing year, 5 000 tonnes of short flax fibre and hemp fibre as national guaranteed quantities between Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Luxembourg\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products, and in particular Article 95 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nArticle 8(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 507/2008 of 6 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre lays down that the apportioning of 5 000 tonnes of short flax fibre and hemp fibre as national guaranteed quantities, as provided for in Article 94(1a) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 for the marketing year 2008/09, must be effected before 16 November of the marketing year in progress.\n(2)\nTo that end, Italy has sent the Commission information relating to areas covered by sale/purchase contracts, processing commitments and processing contracts, and estimated flax and hemp straw and fibre yields.\n(3)\nConversely, no flax or hemp fibre will be produced for the 2008/09 marketing year in Denmark, Greece, Ireland or Luxembourg.\n(4)\nOn the basis of estimates of production resulting from the information provided, total production in the five Member States concerned will not reach the overall quantity of 5 000 tonnes allocated to them, and the national guaranteed quantities as set out below should be set.\n(5)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 149, 7.6.2008, p. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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