Commission Regulation (EC) No 2233/98 of 16 October 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 second advance payment for this premium
Date: 1998-10-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, farm income, financial loss, goat, marketing year, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2233/98

of 16 October 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 second advance payment for this premium

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 prod-
ucts (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 com-
pensate 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 is
granted (5), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3519/
86 (6);

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 produ-
cers 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 kilograms 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
provisional coefficient should be used; whereas Article
5(3) of that Regulation also fixes the amount per ewe 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.

producers of light lambs and per female of the caprine
species 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 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
producers of
lambs and she-goats on the same
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 authorized
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 during 1998 of ECU 133,785 per
100 kilograms.

(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.

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Article 2

The estimated amount of the premium payable per

1.
ewe is as follows:

— producers of heavy lambs: ECU 21,406,
— producers of light lambs: ECU 17,125.

Pursuant

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

— producers of heavy lambs: ECU 6,422 per ewe,
— producers of light lambs: ECU 5,138 per ewe.

Article 3

1.
The estimated amount of the premium payable per
female of the caprine species in the areas designated in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and in Article 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1065/86 is ECU 17,125.

areas designated in paragraph 1 shall be ECU 5,138 per
female of the caprine species.

Article 4

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/
92, the second 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 (1) shall be as follows:

— ECU 1,284 per ewe in the case of producers referred
to in Article 5(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89,
— ECU 1,284 per she-goat in the case of the producers
referred to in Article 5(5) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89.

Article 5

Pursuant

2.
to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EEC) No
3013/89, the second advance which the Member States
are authorised to pay to goatmeat producers located in the

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, 16 October 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 7.