Commission Regulation (EC) No 316/98 of 6 February 1998 determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per female goat in the Member States and the payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community for the 1997 marketing year
Date: 1998-02-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: farm income, financial loss, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, production aid, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 316/98

of 6 February 1998

determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per
female goat in the Member States and the payment of the specific aid for sheep
and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community for the 1997
marketing year

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 organisation of the
market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1589/96 (2), and in particular Article
5(6) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92
of 15 June 1992 concerning specific measures for the
Canary
Islands with regard to certain agricultural
products (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2348/96 (4), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

Whereas Article 5(1) and (5) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89 provides
for a premium to be granted to
compensate for any loss of income sustained by producers
of sheepmeat and, in certain areas, of goatmeat; whereas
those areas are defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
No 3013/89 and in Article 1 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1065/86 of 11 April 1986 determining the
mountain areas in which the premium for goatmeat
producers is granted (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 3519/86 (6);

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the Member States were authorised by Commis-
to pay an initial
sion Regulation (EC) No 1027/97 (7)
advance
and by Commission Regulation (EC) No
2099/97 (8) to pay a second advance to sheepmeat and
goatmeat producers; whereas the definitive premiums to
be paid in respect of the 1997 marketing year must thus
be fixed;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89,
the premium payable to producers of heavy
lambs in respect of the 1997 marketing year is obtained
by multiplying the loss of income by a coefficient expres-
sing the annual average production of heavy lamb meat
per ewe producing such lambs, expressed in terms of 100
kg carcase weight; whereas, in accordance with the above-
mentioned Regulation, the premium per ewe for produ-
cers of light lambs and per female goat for the 1997

(1) OJ L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 25.
(3) OJ L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 320, 11. 12. 1996, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25.
(6) OJ L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17.
(7) OJ L 150, 7. 6. 1997, p. 27.
(8) OJ L 292, 25. 10. 1997, p. 28.

marketing year should be 80 % of
producers of heavy lambs;

the premium for

Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the premium must be reduced by the impact on
the basis price of the coefficient provided for in Article
8(2) of that Regulation; whereas that coefficient was fixed
at 7 % by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2069/92 (9)
amending Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89;

Whereas it is opportune to foresee that the aid provided
for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 of 14 May
1990 instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in
certain less-favoured areas of the Community (10), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 193/98 (11), or
the
balance of
this aid, resulting from the application of
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1027/27, should be
granted before a certain date and under what conditions;

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides for the
application from 1 July 1992 of specific measures with
regard to agricultural production in the Canary Islands;
whereas those measures involve the granting of a supple-
ment to the premium payable to producers of light lambs
and female goats on the same terms as those laid down
for the granting of the premium provided for in Article 5
of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89; whereas those terms
provided for Spain to be authorised to pay the supple-
ment to the premium;

Whereas the agricultural conversion rate has been frozen
until 1 January 1999 for certain currencies by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1527/95 (12);

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

It is hereby noted that the difference between the basic
price less the impact of the coefficient provided for in
Article 8(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and the
Community market price during the 1997 marketing year
was ECU 93,543 per 100 kilograms.

(9) OJ L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 59.
(10) OJ L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17.
(11) OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 18.
(12) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 1.

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Article 2

Article 4

The coefficient provided for in Article 5(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3013/89 is hereby fixed at 16 kilograms.

Article 3

The premium payable per ewe in respect of the

1.
1997 marketing year shall be as follows:

(ECU)

The specific aid which Member States are authorised to
in less-
pay to producers of sheepmeat and goatmeat
favoured areas pursuant
to Article 1(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1323/90, within the limits and at the rates
provided for in Article 5(7) and the second indent of the
second subparagraph of Article 5(8) of Regulation (EEC)
No 3013/89, or, should it be the case, the balance of this
aid,
in the event of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
1027/97 being applied, shall be paid before 15 October
1998. The agricultural conversion rate applicable to the
amount of this specific aid is that of the last day of the
1997 marketing year.

Premium payable per ewe

Article 5

Producers of heavy lambs

Producers of light lambs

14,967

11,974

The premium payable per female of the caprine
2.
species and per region in areas listed in Annex I to Regu-
lation (EEC) No 3013/89 and in Article 1 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1065/86 in respect of the 1997 marketing year
shall be as follows:

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92,
the supplement to the premium for the 1997 marketing
year to be granted to producers of light lambs and female
goats located in the Canary Islands, within the limits and
at the rates laid down in Article 5(7) and the second
the second subparagraph of Article 5(8) of
indent of
Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 shall be as follows:

— ECU 5,045 per ewe in the case of producers as

referred to in Article 5(3) of that Regulation,

— ECU 5,045 per female goat in the case of producers as

referred to in Article 5(5) of that Regulation.

Premium payable per female of the caprine species

Article 6

(ECU)

11,974

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, 6 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission