Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) No ... of ... fixing the aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amount withheld to finance measures to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-02-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural market, agricultural product, agricultural production, fixing of prices

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Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities

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Proposal  for  a

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC)  No  . . ./1999

of  . . .  1999

99/0029(CNS)

fixing the aid for fibre flax and hemp and the amount withheld to finance measures to promote
the  use  of  flax  fibre  for  the  1999/2000  marketing  year

(1999/C  59/06)

THE  COUNCIL  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  UNION,

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European
Community,

Having  regard  to  Council  Regulation  (EEC)  No  1308/70
of  29  June  1970  on  the  common  organisation  of  the
market 
last  amended  by
Regulation  (EC)  No  3290/94 (2),  and 
in  particular
Articles  2(3)  and  4(3)  thereof,

in  flax  and  hemp (1),  as 

the  said  paragraph;  whereas  it  is  to  be  fixed  in  the  light
of trends on the market in flax, the amount of the aid for
flax  and  the  cost  of  the  measures  to  be  introduced;
whereas  account  should  also  be  taken  of  the  financing
already  provided  for;

Whereas  application  of  the  abovementioned  criteria
entails  fixing  the  amount  of  aid  and  the  portion  of  the
aid to be used for financing measures to promote the use
of  flax  fibre  at  the  levels  set  out  below,

Having  regard  to  the  proposal  from  the  Commission,

HAS  ADOPTED  THIS  REGULATION:

Having  regard 
Parliament,

to 

the  opinion  of 

the  European

Article  1

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,

For  the  1999/2000  marketing  year,  the  aid  provided  for
in  Article  4  of  Regulation  (EEC)  No  1308/70  shall  be:

Whereas  Article  4  of  Regulation  (EEC)  No  1308/70
provides  that  the  amounts  of  aid  for  flax  grown  mainly
for  fibre  and  for  hemp  grown  in  the  Community  are  to
be  fixed  each  year;

Whereas Article 4(2) of the said Regulation provides that
the amount is to be so fixed per hectare of area sown and
harvested  so  as  to  ensure  an  even  balance  between  the
volume of production required in the Community and the
amount  that  can  be  marketed;  whereas  it  is  to  be  fixed
taking  into  account  the  price  for  flax  and  hemp  fibres
and  seed  on  the  world  market;

Whereas  Article  2(3)  of  Regulation  (EEC)  No  1308/70
provides that the portion of aid for financing Community
measures to encourage the use of flax fibre is to be fixed
at  the  time  when  the  aid  is  fixed  for  the  marketing  year
in  question  in  accordance  with  the  criteria  referred  to  in

(a)  as  regards  flax:  EUR  815,86/ha;

(b) as  regards  hemp:  EUR  662,88/ha.

Article  2

For the 1999/2000 marketing year, the amount of the aid
for  flax  to  be  used  to  finance  the  measures  to  promote
the use of flax fibre referred to in Article 2 of Regulation
(EEC)  No  1308/70  shall  be:  EUR  0/ha.

Article  3

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

(1)  OJ  L  146,  4.7.1970,  p.  1.
(2)  OJ  L  349,  31.12.1994,  p.  105.

It  shall  apply  from  1  August  1999.

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

Done  at  . . .

For  the  Council

The  President

. . .