98/341/EC: Commission Decision of 13 May 1998 derogating, for the 1997/98 marketing year, from certain provisions of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 as regards aid applications and applications for supervised storage of unginned cotton originating in certain Greek prefectures (Only the Greek text is authentic)
Date: 1998-05-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, aid system, cotton, derogation from EU law, marketing year

L 151/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

21. 5. 98

COMMISSION DECISION

of 13 May 1998

derogating, for the 1997/98 marketing year, from certain provisions of Commis-
sion Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 as regards aid applications and applications
for supervised storage of unginned cotton originating in certain Greek prefec-
tures

(Only the Greek text is authentic)

(98/341/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to protocol 4 on cotton annexed to the Act
of Accession of Greece, as last amended by 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 11(1) thereof,

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3
May 1989 laying down rules implementing the system of
aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1740/97 (5), lays down 31 March as the time limit for
placing unginned cotton in supervised storage but allows
the possibility for the Member State to set a later time
limit under certain conditions; whereas for the 1997/98
marketing year Greece used that provision by setting the
time limit for supervised storage at 31 January 1998;
whereas, as a result of exceptional weather conditions, it
proved impossible to harvest the unginned cotton until
the beginning of March 1998 in certain Greek prefec-
tures; whereas, therefore, the start of supervised storage
and the lodging of the corresponding aid applications
should be accepted without penalty for the unginned
cotton originating in those prefectures up to a date
allowing for the other time limits in the rules to be
complied with;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Flax and Hemp,

Article 1

By derogation from the first indent of Article 5(3),
1.
from Article 7(1) and from the first and second subpara-
graphs of Article 9(2), the following conditions shall apply
for
to unginned cotton
harvested in the Greek prefectures indicated in paragraph
2:

the 1997/98 marketing year

(a) aid applications lodged by 15 April at the latest may

be accepted;

(b) if the aid applications are lodged between 1 April and
15 April, the aid to be granted shall be that valid on
the previous 31 March;

(c) applications for supervised storage lodged by 15 April

at the latest may be accepted.

2.

The Greek prefectures referred to in paragraph 1 are:

Kavala, Xanthi, Rodopi and Evros.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.

Done at Brussels, 13 May 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(3) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 16.
(4) OJ L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23.
(5) OJ L 244, 6. 9. 1997, p. 1.