1999/328/EC: Commission Decision of 7 May 1999 derogating, for the 1998/1999 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 as regards aid applications and applications for supervised storage of unginned cotton originating in certain Greek prefectures (notified under document number C(1999) 1179) (only the Greek text is authentic)
Date: 1999-05-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, aid system, cotton, marketing year

18. 5. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 124/35

COMMISSION DECISION

of 7 May 1999

derogating, for the 1998/1999 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 1201/89 as regards aid applications and applications for supervised
storage of unginned cotton originating in certain Greek prefectures

(notified under document number C(1999) 1179)

(Only the Greek text is authentic)

(1999/328/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

1. Notwithstanding Article 5(3), Article 7(1), the first
subparagraph of Article 9(2) and Article 11 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1201/89, the following conditions shall apply
for the 1998/1999 marketing year to unginned cotton
harvested in the Greek prefectures indicated in para-
graph 2:

(a) aid applications lodged by 28 April at the latest may

be accepted;

(b) if the aid applications are lodged between 1 April and
28 April, the aid granted shall be that valid on the
previous 31 March;

(c) applications for supervised storage lodged by 28 April

at the latest may be accepted;

(d) the quantity of ginned cotton produced from the
quantity of unginned cotton under supervised storage
shall be notified before 5 May.

2.

The Greek prefectures referred to in paragraph 1 are:

Drame, Serres and Evros.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic.

Done at Brussels, 7 May 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Protocol No 4 on cotton annexed to the
Act of Accession of Greece, as last amended by Regula-
tion (EC) No 1553/95 (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of
29 June 1995 laying down the general rules for the
system of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC)
No 2169/81 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1419/98 (3), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof,

for

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/
89 of 3 May 1989 laying down rules implementing
the system of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1664/98 (5),
lays down 31
March as the time limit for lodging applications for
supervised storage of unginned cotton but allows
the Member State to set a later time limit under
certain conditions; whereas
the 1998/1999
marketing year Greece used that provision by
setting the time limit for lodging applications for
supervised storage at 31 January 1999; whereas, as a
result of exceptional weather conditions, it proved
impossible to harvest the unginned cotton until the
beginning of March 1999 in certain Greek prefec-
the start of supervised
tures; whereas,
storage and the lodging of the corresponding aid
applications should be accepted without penalty for
the unginned cotton originating in those prefec-
tures up to a date allowing for the other time limits
in the rules to be complied with;

therefore,

(2) Whereas

in this
the measures provided for
Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Flax and Hemp,

(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.