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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2312/98
of 26 October 1998
determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in
particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, aslast amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95 (
1),
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of
29 June 1995 (2) laying down general rules for the system
of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC) No2169/81, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/98 (
3), and in particular Articles 3, 4 and 5 thereof,
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
requires a world market price for unginned cotton to beperiodically determined from the world market pricedetermined for ginned cotton, using the historical rela-tionship between the two prices as specified in Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3May 1989 laying down rules for implementing the systemof aid for cotton (
4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1664/98 (5); whereas if it cannot be determined in this
way it is to be based on the last price determined;
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
requires the world market price for ginned cotton to bedetermined for a product of specific characteristics usingthe most favourable offers and quotations on the worldmarket of those considered representative of the realmarket trend; whereas to this end an average is to becalculated of offers and quotations on one or more Euro-pean exchanges for a cif product to a North Europeanport from the supplier countries considered most repres-entative as regards international trade; whereas these rulesfor determination of the world market price for ginnedcotton provide for adjustments to reflect differences inproduct quality and the nature of offers and quotations;whereas these adjustments are specified in Article 2 ofRegulation (EEC) No 1201/89;Whereas application of the above rules gives the world
market price for unginned cotton indicated hereunder;
Whereas Article 5 (3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC)
No 1554/95 stipulates that the advance payment rate forthe aid is to be the guide price less the world market priceand less a further amount calculated by the formulaapplicable when the guaranteed maximum quantity isoverun but with a 15 % increase in the estimate forunginned cotton production; whereas Commission Regu-lation (EC) No 1844/98 (
6) determined estimated produc-
tion for the 1998/99 marketing year; whereas applicationof these rules gives the advance payment rates for eachMember State indicated hereunder;
Whereas the average rate for the dollar is different from
that used for Commission Regulation (EC) No 2302/98 (
7);
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. The world market price for unginned cotton as indi-
cated in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 is set atECU 22,523 per 100 kilograms.
2. Advance payment of the aid as indicated in Article 5
(3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 shallbe at the rate of:
— ECU 48,060 per 100 kilograms in Spain,
— ECU 46,997 per 100 kilograms in Greece,— ECU 83,777 per 100 kilograms in other Member
States.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on 27 October
1998.
(1) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(3) OJ L 190, 4. 7. 1998, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23. (6) OJ L 240, 28. 8. 1998, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 211, 29. 7. 1998, p. 9. (7) OJ L 287, 24. 10. 1998, p. 23.
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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
States.
Done at Brussels, 26 October 1998.
For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission