Commission Regulation (EC) No 1163/1999 of 2 June 1999 determining, for the 1999 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less favoured areas of the Community
Date: 1999-06-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: financial loss, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, marketing year, sheep, slaughter premium

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1163/1999

of 2 June 1999

determining, for the 1999 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the
estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing
the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the
specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less favoured areas of the
Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) 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 Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 of 15
June 1992 concerning specific measures for the Canary
Islands with regard to certain agricultural products (2), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2348/96 (3), and in
particular Article 13 thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 5(1) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98 provides for the grant of a premium to
compensate 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 (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 is granted (4), as
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3519/86 (5);

(2) Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation
(EC) No 2467/98 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;

(3) Whereas, pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 2467/98, the amount of the premium per
ewe for producers of heavy lambs is obtained by
multiplying the loss of income referred to in the
second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of that Article
by a coefficient expressing the annual average
production of heavy lamb meat per ewe producing
these lambs expressed per 100 kg of carcase weight;
whereas the coefficient for 1999 has not yet been
fixed in view of the lack of full Community statis-

tics; whereas, pending the fixing of that coefficient,
a provisional coefficient should be used; whereas
Article 5(3) of that Regulation also fixes the amount
lambs and per
per ewe for producers of
female of the caprine species and at 80 % of the
premium per ewe for producers of heavy lambs;

light

(4) 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 paragraph 2 of that Article; whereas
that coefficient is fixed by Article 13(4) at 7 %;

(5) Whereas, in accordance with Article 5(6) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2467/98,
the half-yearly advance
payment is fixed at 30 % of the expected premium;
whereas,
in accordance with Article 4(3) of
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/93 (6), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1526/96 (7),
the advance payment is to be paid only if it is equal
to or greater than EUR 1;

(6) Whereas, pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 1323/
90 (8), as last amended by Commission Regulation
(EC) No 193/98 (9), the Council instituted specific
aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-
favoured areas of the Community; whereas it lays
down that the aid is to be granted under the same
conditions as those for the grant of the premium
for producers of sheepmeat and goatmeat; whereas,
in view of the present uncertainty of the market
situation in certain Member States, the Member
States should be authorised, for the 1999 marketing
year, to pay immediately an amount equal to 90 %
of the aid;

(7) Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides
for the application of specific measures relating to
agricultural production in the Canary Islands;
whereas
the grant of a
supplement to the ewe premium to producers of
light lambs and she-goats on the same conditions

those measures entail

(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 245, 1.10.1993, p. 99.
(7) OJ L 190, 31.7.1996, p. 21.
(8) OJ L 132, 23.5.1990, p. 17.
(9) OJ L 20, 27.1.1998, p. 18.

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the premium
as those governing the grant of
referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98; whereas those conditions provide that
Spain is authorised to pay an advance on the said
supplementary premium;

Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/
2.
98, the first advance which the Member States are author-
ised to pay to goatmeat producers located in the areas
designated in paragraph 1 shall be as follows: EUR 5,787
per female of the caprine species.

(8) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for sheep and Goats,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The difference which is hereby estimated between the
basic price, reduced by the impact of the coefficient laid
down in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98, and
the foreseeable market price for 1999 is EUR 153,785 per
100 kg.

Article 2

The estimated amount of the premium payable per

1.
ewe is as follows:

(cid:190) producers of heavy lambs: EUR 24,113,
(cid:190) producers of light lambs: EUR 19,290.

2.
Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/
98, the first advance that the Member States are author-
ised to pay to producers shall be as follows:

(cid:190) producers of heavy lambs: EUR 7,234 per ewe,
(cid:190) producers of light lambs: EUR 5,787 per ewe.

Article 4

The advance of the specific aid which the Member States
are authorised to pay to producers of sheepmeat and
goatmeat in less-favoured areas pursuant to Article 1(1) of
Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90, within the meaning of
Council Directive 75/268/EEC (1), shall be as follows:

(cid:190) EUR 5,977 per ewe in the case of the producers
referred to in Article 5(2) and (4) of the said Regula-
tion,

(cid:190) EUR 5,379 per ewe in the case of the producers
referred to in Article 5(3) of the said Regulation,
(cid:190) EUR 5,379 per she-goat in the case of the producers
referred to in Article 5(5) of the said Regulation.

Article 5

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/
92, the first advance on the supplementary premium for
the 1999 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 (2) shall be as follows:

(cid:190) EUR 2,045 per ewe in the case of producers referred

to in Article 5(3) of that Regulation,

(cid:190) EUR 2,045 per she-goat

in the case of producers

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

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 (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1
of Regulation (EEC) No 1065/86: EUR 19,290.

Article 6

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, 2 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 128, 19.5.1975, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 337, 4.12.1990, p. 7.