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Council Regulation (EC) No 193/98 of 20 January 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less- favoured areas of the Community
Date: 1998-01-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, livestock farming, sheep

L 20/18

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

27. 1. 98

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 193/98

of 20 January 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 instituting specific aid for sheep and
goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,

lation (EEC) No 1323/90 (3), on the specific aid granted
for non-dairy ewes,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment (1),

Whereas prices are in serious decline on the Community
market in sheep’s and goat’s milk products and the situa-
tion is unlikely to improve in the medium term;

Whereas this situation leads to negative consequences for
the incomes of the producers concerned; whereas this
reduction in income is likely to be extremely unfavour-
able in less-favoured areas listed under Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 950/97 of 20 May 1997 on improving the
efficiency of agricultural structures (2), where there is little
alternative to production using the existing sheep and
goat dairy breeds; whereas the producers in those areas
should be compensated by increasing from 70 % to
90 % the percentage granted to them of the amount of
specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-
favoured areas of the Community calculated under Regu-

Article 1

Article 1(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 is hereby
amended as follows:

(cid:190) in the second indent,
by ‘ECU 5,977',

‘ECU 4,589' shall be replaced

(cid:190) in the third indent, ‘ECU 4,589' shall be replaced by

‘ECU 5,977'.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from the beginning of the 1998 marketing
year.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 January 1998.

For the Council

The President

J. CUNNINGHAM

(1) Opinion delivered on 14 January 1998 (not yet published in

the Official Journal).

(2) OJ L 142, 2. 6. 1997, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17. Regulation as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 40/96 (OJ L 10, 13. 1. 1996, p. 6).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 133/98 of 20 January 1998 derogating, for the 1997/98 wine year, from Regulation (EC) No 3112/93 laying down detailed rules for the application of the specific aid arrangements for the smaller Aegean islands in respect of vineyards and the private storage of liqueur wines
Date: 1998-01-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Aegean Islands, aid per hectare, aid system, fortified wine, private stock, wine of superior quality

21. 1. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 15/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 133/98

of 20 January 1998

derogating, for the 1997/98 wine year, from Regulation (EC) No 3112/93 laying
down detailed rules for the application of the specific aid arrangements for the
smaller Aegean islands in respect of vineyards and the private storage of liqueur
wines

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93
of 19 July 1993 introducing specific measures for the
smaller Aegean islands concerning certain agricultural
products (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2417/95 (2), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,
Whereas Article 9(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93
lays down that the aid per hectare for the continued
cultivation of vines for the production of quality wines
psr in traditional wine-growing zones is, with effect from
to be granted exclusively to
the 1997/98 wine year,
producer groups or organisations initiating a measure to
improve the quality of the wines produced in accordance
with a programme approved by the competent authori-
ties; whereas, for the 1997/98 wine year, the time limit
laid down in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 3112/93 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2537/95 (4), for the lodging of the above aid application
should be deferred from 1 May 1997 to 31 December
1997 in view of the difficulties encountered by producer

organisations in preparing and submitting the above
programme of measures to improve the quality of the
wines in question;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Notwithstanding Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No
3112/93, for the 1997/98 wine year the application for
per-hectare aid may be lodged with the competent
authority by producer groups or organisations no later
than 31 December 1997.

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, 20 January 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 184, 27. 7. 1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 248, 14. 10. 1995, p. 39.
(3) OJ L 278, 11. 11. 1993, p. 52.
(4) OJ L 260, 31. 10. 1995, p. 10.