Commission Regulation (EC) No 474/1999 of 3 March 1999 determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid
Date: 1999-03-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, Spain, aid system, cotton, world market price

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Official Journal of the European Communities

4. 3. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 474/1999

of 3 March 1999

determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

whereas these adjustments are specified in Article 2 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89;

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Whereas application of the above rules gives the world
market price for unginned cotton indicated hereunder;

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in
particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, as
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of
29 June 1995 (2) laying down general rules for the system
of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC) No
2169/81, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/
98 (3), and in particular Articles 3, 4 and 5 thereof,

Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
requires a world market price for unginned cotton to be
periodically determined from the world market price
determined for ginned cotton, using the historical rela-
tionship between the two prices as specified in Article 1
(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3
May 1989 laying down rules for implementing the system
of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1664/98 (5); whereas if it cannot be determined in this
way it is to be based on the last price determined;

Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
requires the world market price for ginned cotton to be
determined for a product of specific characteristics using
the most favourable offers and quotations on the world
market of
the real
those considered representative of
market trend; whereas to this end an average is to be
calculated of offers and quotations on one or more Euro-
pean exchanges for a cif product to a North European
port from the supplier countries considered most repres-
entative as regards international trade; whereas these rules
for determination of the world market price for ginned
cotton provide for adjustments to reflect differences in
product quality and the nature of offers and quotations;

(1) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(3) OJ L 190, 4. 7. 1998, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23.
(5) OJ L 211, 29. 7. 1998, p. 9.

Whereas the second subparagraph of Article 5(3a) of
Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 stipulates that the advance
payment rate for the aid is to be the guide price less the
world market price and less a further amount calculated
by the formula applicable when the guaranteed maximum
quantity is overrun but with a minimum 7,5 % increase
in the revised estimate for unginned cotton production;
whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 2591/98 (6)
fixes the revised estimate of production of unginned
cotton for the 1998/99 marketing year and the relevant
percentage increase; whereas application of these rules
gives the advance payment rates for each Member State
indicated hereunder,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
The world market price for unginned cotton as
indicated in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 is
set at EUR 26,362/100 kg.

2. Advance payment of the aid as indicated in Article 5
(3a), second sentence, of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
shall be at the rate of:

— EUR 57,828/100 kg in Spain,

— EUR 47,623/100 kg in Greece,

— EUR 79,938/100 kg in other Member States.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 4 March 1999.

(6) OJ L 324, 2. 12. 1998, p. 25.

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

Done at Brussels, 3 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission