Commission Regulation (EC) No 377/1999 of 19 February 1999 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 1998 marketing year
Date: 1999-02-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, financial loss, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, livestock farming, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 377/1999

of 19 February 1999

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 1998
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 of
3 November 1998 on the common organisation of the
market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (1), 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 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2348/
96 (3), and in particular Article 13 thereof,

Whereas Article 5(1) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/
98 provides for a premium to be granted to compensate
for any loss of income sustained by producers of sheep-
meat and, in certain areas, of goatmeat; whereas those
areas are defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
2467/98 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 (4), as amended by Regulation (EEC)
No 3519/86 (5);

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98, the Member States were authorised by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 1213/98 (6) to pay an initial
advance and by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2233/
98 (7) to pay a second advance to sheepmeat and goatmeat
producers; whereas the definitive premiums to be paid in
respect of the 1998 marketing year must thus be fixed;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98, the premium payable to producers of heavy
lambs in respect of the 1998 marketing year is obtained
by multiplying the loss of
income by a coefficient
expressing 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
abovementioned Regulation, the premium per ewe for
producers of light lambs and per female goat for the 1998

(1) OJ L 312, 20. 11. 1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 320, 11. 12. 1996, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25.
(5) OJ L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17.
(6) OJ L 167, 12. 6. 1998, p. 5.
(7) OJ L 281, 17. 10. 1998, p. 4.

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

the premium for

Whereas, pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98, the premium must be reduced by the impact on
the basic price of the coefficient provided for in Article
13(2) of that Regulation; whereas that coefficient is fixed
at 7 % by Article 13(4) of the said Regulation;

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 (8), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 193/98 (9), or the balance
of this aid, resulting from the application of Article 4 of
Regulation (EC) No 1213/98, 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 (EC) No 2467/97; whereas those terms
provided for Spain to be authorised to pay the supple-
ment to the premium;

Whereas the Management Committee for sheep and goats
has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
its chairman,

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 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and the
Community market price during the 1998 marketing year
was EUR 143,456 per 100 kilograms.

Article 2

The coefficient provided for in Article 5(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 2467/98 is hereby fixed at 15,68 kilograms.

(8) OJ L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17.
(9) OJ L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 18.

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Article 3

The premium payable per ewe is respect of the 1998

1.
marketing year shall be as follows:

Premium payable per ewe

(EUR)

Producers of heavy lambs

Producers of light lambs

(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 (EC)
No 2467/98 or, should it be the case, the balance of this
in the event of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No
aid,
1027/97 being applied, shall be paid before 15 October
1999. The conversion rate applicable to the amount of
this specific aid is that of
the 1998
marketing year.

the last day of

22,494

17,995

Article 5

2.
The premium payable per female of the caprine
species and per region in areas listed in Annex I to
Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1 of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 1065/86 in respect of the 1998 marketing
year shall be as follows:

(EUR)

Premium payable per female of the caprine species

17,995

Article 4

the supplement

to the premium for

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/
92,
the 1998
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 indent of the second subparagraph of Article 5(8)
of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 shall be as follows:

— EUR 5,163 per ewe in the case of producers as

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

— EUR 5,163 per female goat in the case of producers as

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

Article 6

The specific aid which Member States are authorised to
pay to producers of sheepmeat and goatmeat in less-
to Article 1(1) of Regulation
favoured areas pursuant

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, 19 February 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission