COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 609/94 of 18 March 1994 supplementing Regulation (EEC) No 2385/91 as regards the geographical areas of the new German Länder where producers practising transhumance are regarded as producers in less-favoured areas

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 233/94 (2), and in particular Article 5 (9) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 of 27 November 1990 laying down general rules for the grant of premiums to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 233/94, and in particular Articles 1 and 2 (4) thereof,

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 lays down the conditions under which farmers practising transhumance are to be regarded as producers in less-favoured areas; whereas, to that end, the said Regulation lays down in particular that only those farmers are to be taken into account whose holdings are located in geographical areas to be determined in accordance with certain criteria and in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89; whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2385/91 of 6 August 1991 laying down detailed rules for certain special cases regarding the definition of sheepmeat and goatmeat producers and producer groups (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2564/92 (5), establishes the list of those geographical areas with the exception of those of the new German Länder and of the Saarland pending a more in-depth examination of the situation in those regions; whereas that examination having now been carried out, the list of the geographical areas established by Regulation (EEC) No 2385/91 should be supplemented with effect from the beginning of the 1994 marketing year;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sheep and Goats,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Point IV. FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY of the Annex to Regulation (EEC) No 2385/91 is hereby supplemented in fine as follows:

'Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (in the following urban and rural districts)

Güstrow

Teterow

Hagenow

Schwerin

Lübz

Rostock

Bad Doberan

Ribnitz-Damgarten

Greifswald

Demmin

Malchin

Neubrandenburg

Parchim

Saxony-Anhalt (in the following urban and rural districts)

Wernigerode

Quedlinburg

Sangerhausen

Osterburg

Stendal

Wolmirstedt

Schönebeck

Roßlau

Gräfenhainichen

Wittenberg

Jessen

Klötze

Zeitz

Naumburg

Nebra

Brandenburg (in the following urban and rural districts)

Prignitz

Uckermark

Märkisch-Oderland

Elbe-Elster

Dahme-Spreewald

Teltow-Fläming

Oder-Spree

Oberhavel

Ostprignitz

Spree-Neiße

Potsdam-Mittelmark

Oberspreewald-Lausitz

Thuringia (in the following urban and rural districts)

Nordhausen

Erfurt

Eisenach

Mühlhausen

Gotha

Jena

Schmölln

Sondershausen

Bad Langensalza

Weimar

Bad Salzungen

Arnstadt

Artern

Saxony (in the following urban and rural districts)

Torgau

Ellenburg

Delitzsch

Wurzen

Riesa

Großenhain

Meißen

Dresden-Land

Pirna

Sebnitz

Bautzen

Zittau

Görlitz

Niesky

Kamenz

Freiberg

Glauchau

Zwickau-Land

Brand-Erbisdorf`

Article 2

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

It shall apply from the beginning of the 1994 marketing year.

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

Done at Brussels, 18 March 1994.

For the Commission

René STEICHEN

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 30, 3. 2. 1994, p. 9.

(3) OJ No L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 7.

(4) OJ No L 219, 7. 8. 1991, p. 15.

(5) OJ No L 257, 3. 9. 1992, p. 12.