Traduction de «Canary Islands » (Anglais → Français) :

1. Aid shall be granted for the fruits, edible vegetables, roots and tubers, flowers and live plants listed in Chapters 6, 7 and 8 of the Combined Nomenclature harvested in the Canary Islands and intended to supply the market in the Canary Islands.

(14) Tobacco growing is of historical importance on the islands. Economically speaking, tobacco preparation continues to be one of the chief industrial activities in the region. In social terms, tobacco cultivation is very labour intensive and carried out by small farms. Since the crop is not sufficiently profitable it is in danger of dying out. Tobacco is currently cultivated only on a small area on the island of La Palma, where it is used for the artisanal manufacture of cigars. Spain should therefore be authorised to continue to grant aid in addition to the Community aid so that this traditional crop can be maintained with a view to supporting the artisanal activity associated with it. In addition, to maintain the manufacture of tobacco products, imports ...[+++] into the Canary Islands of raw and semi-manufactured tobacco should continue to be exempt from customs duty, up to an annual limit of 20000 tonnes of stripped raw tobacco equivalent.

The particular geographical situation of the Canary Islands imposes additional transport costs in supplying essential products for human consumption, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity impose further constraints on economic operators and producers in the Canary Islands that severely handicap their activities. These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the price of these essential products. It is therefore appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements to guarantee supply to these islands and compensate for the additional costs arising from their insularity ...[+++] and remoteness.

The particular geographical situation and the remoteness of the Canary Islands impose additional transport costs in supplying essential products for human consumption, for processing and as agricultural inputs. In addition, objective factors arising as a result of insularity impose further constraints on economic operators and producers in the Canary Islands that severely handicap their activities, as do other factors such as the impossibility of economies of scale, limited water and energy resources and particularly high production costs . These handicaps can be alleviated by lowering the price of these essential products. It is therefo ...[+++]re appropriate to introduce specific supply arrangements to guarantee supply to these islands and compensate for the additional costs arising from their insularity and remoteness.

(5) In order to achieve the goal of lowering prices in the Canary Islands and mitigating the additional costs of their remoteness, insularity and outermost location while maintaining the competitiveness of Community products, aid should be granted for the supply to these islands of products of Community origin.

4. Where marketing of the products referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article is undertaken by joint ventures constituted, with the aim of marketing produce from the Canary Islands, by producers in those islands or producer organisations as referred to in Articles 11, 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 and natural or legal persons established in the rest of the Community, and where the partners undertake to pool the knowledge and know-how required to achieve the objective of the joint venture over a minimum period of three years, the amount of the aid shall be increased to 13 % of the value of the annual production marketed jointly.