COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1290/98 of 22 June 1998 definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1997 to 31 March 1998 for the 1997/98 marketing year

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, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of 29 June 1995 laying down the general rules for the system of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2169/81 (2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1584/96 (3), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,

Whereas, under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95, the world market price for unginned cotton is fixed periodically during the marketing year;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1256/98 (4) fixes actual production of unginned cotton for the 1997/98 marketing year, the amount by which the guide price in each Member State is to be reduced under Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 and the increase in the amount of aid in accordance with Article 2(4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1964/87 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1553/95;

Whereas Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3 May 1989 laying down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1740/97 (7), provides for the aid on unginned cotton applicable to each period for which a world market price has been determined to be fixed before 15 July;

Whereas the aid for the 1997/98 marketing year should accordingly be fixed definitively,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The aid on unginned cotton corresponding to the world prices fixed in Commission Regulations (EC) No 1700/97 (8), (EC) No 1736/97 (9), (EC) No 1829/97 (10), (EC) No 1908/97 (11), (EC) No 1949/97 (12), (EC) No 2159/97 (13), (EC) No 2245/97 (14), (EC) No 2367/97 (15), (EC) No 2547/97 (16), (EC) No 2642/97 (17), (EC) No 29/98 (18), (EC) No 102/98 (19), (EC) No 207/98 (20), (EC) No 253/98 (21), (EC) No 391/98 (22), (EC) No 479/98 (23) and (EC) No 606/98 (24) shall be as set out in the Annex hereto, which amount shall be fixed definitively from the entry into force of each of the Regulations concerned.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 22 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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