Commission Regulation (EC) No 1213/98 of 11 June 1998 determining, for the 1998 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less favoured areas of the Community
Date: 1998-06-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, financial loss, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, production aid, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1213/98

of 11 June 1998

determining, for the 1998 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the
estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing
the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the
specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less favoured areas of the
Community

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 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 the grant of a premium to compen-
sate for any loss of income sustained by producers of
in certain areas, of goatmeat; whereas
sheepmeat and,
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 is
granted (5),
amended by Regulation (EEC) No
3519/86 (6);

as

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89 and to enable an advance payment to be made to
sheepmeat and goatmeat producers, the foreseeable loss of
income should be estimated in the light of the foreseeable
trend in market prices;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the amount of the premium per ewe for prod-
ucers of heavy lambs is obtained by multiplying the loss
of income referred to in the second subparagraph of para-
graph 1 of that Article by a coefficient expressing the

annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe
producing these lambs expressed per 100 kg of carcase
weight; whereas the coefficient for 1998 has not yet been
fixed in view of the lack of full Community statistics;
whereas, pending the fixing of that coefficient, a provi-
sional coefficient should be used; whereas Article 5(3) of
that Regulation also fixes the amount per ewe for produ-
cers of light lambs and per female of the caprine species
and at 80 % of the premium per ewe for producers of
heavy lambs;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the premium must be reduced by the impact on
the basic price of the coefficient provided for in para-
graph 2 of that Article; whereas that coefficient is fixed by
Article 8(4) at 7 %;

Whereas, in accordance with Article 5(6) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3013/89, the half-yearly advance payment is
fixed at 30 % of
in
accordance with Article 4(3) of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2700/93 (7), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1526/96 (8), the advance payment is to be paid only if
it is equal to or greater than ECU 1;

the expected premium; whereas,

Whereas the agricultural conversion rate has been frozen
until 1 January 1999 for certain currencies by Council
Regulation (EC) No 1527/95 (9);

Whereas, under Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 (10), as last
amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 193/98 (11),
the Council
instituted specific aid for sheep and goat
farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community;
whereas it lays down that the aid is to be granted under
the same conditions as
the
premium for producers of
sheepmeat and goatmeat;
whereas, in view of the present uncertainty of the market
situation in certain Member States, the Member States
should be authorised, for the 1998 marketing year, to pay
immediately an amount equal to 90 % of the aid;

the grant of

those for

(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 245, 1. 10. 1993, p. 99.
(8) OJ L 190, 31. 7. 1996, p. 21.
(9) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 1.
(10) OJ L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17.
(11) OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 18.

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Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides for the
application of specific measures relating to agricultural
production in the Canary Islands; whereas those measures
entail the grant of a supplement to the ewe premium to
lambs and she-goats on the same
producers of
conditions as those governing the grant of the premium
referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89;
whereas those conditions provide that Spain is authorised
to pay an advance on the said supplementary premium;

light

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

A difference is hereby estimated between the basic price,
reduced by the impact of the coefficient laid down in
Article 8(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, and the
foreseeable market price for 1998 is ECU 146,285 per 100
kg.

Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and in Article 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1065/86: ECU 18,725.

Pursuant

2.
to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the first advance which the Member States are
authorised to pay to goatmeat producers located in the
areas designated in paragraph 1 shall be as follows: ECU
5,618 per female of the caprine species.

Article 4

The advance of the specific aid which the Member States
are authorised to pay to producers of sheepmeat and goat-
meat in less-favoured areas pursuant to Article 1(1) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90, within the meaning of
Council Directive 75/268/EEC (1), shall be as follows:

— ECU 5,977 per ewe in the case of

the producers
referred to in Article 5(2) and (4) of the said Regula-
tion,

— ECU 5,379 per ewe in the case of

the producers

referred to in Article 5(3) of the said Regulation,

— ECU 5,379 per she-goat in the case of the producers
referred to in Article 5(5) of the said Regulation.

Article 2

Article 5

The estimated amount of the premium payable per

1.
ewe is as follows:

— producers of heavy lambs: ECU 23,406,

— producers of light lambs: ECU 18,725.

Pursuant

2.
to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the first advance that the Member States are
authorised to pay to producers shall be as follows:

— producers of heavy lambs: ECU 7,022 per lamb,

— producers of light lambs: ECU 5,618 per lamb.

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92,
the first advance on the supplementary premium for the
1998 marketing year for producers of light lambs and
she-goats in the Canary Islands within the limits provided
for
in Article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
3493/90 (2) shall be as follows:

— ECU 2,002 per ewe in the case of producers referred

to in Article 5(3) of that Regulation,

— ECU 2,002 per she-goat

in the case of producers

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

Article 3

1.
The estimated amount of the premium payable per
female of the caprine species in the areas designated in

Article 6

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, 11 June 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 7.