Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/1999 of 15 June 1999 fixing, in respect of the 1998/99 marketing year, the actual production of unginned cotton and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced
Date: 1999-06-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cotton, farm price support, marketing, marketing year, norm price

L 149/26

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Official Journal of the European Communities

16. 6. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1234/1999

of 15 June 1999

in respect of the 1998/99 marketing year, the actual production of
fixing,
unginned cotton and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1964/87
of 2 July 1987 adjusting the system of aid for cotton
introduced by Protocol No 4 annexed to the Act of
Accession of Greece (2), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1553/95, and in particular Article 2(3) and (4)
thereof,

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 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1419/98 (4), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
provides that actual production in each marketing
year is to be determined before the end of June of
that year, account being taken in particular of the
for which aid has been requested;
quantities
that criterion results in
whereas application of
actual production in respect of
the 1998/99
marketing year being set at the level set out below;

(2) Whereas Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1964/
87 stipulates that, if actual production in Spain and
Greece exceeds the maximum guaranteed quantity,
the guide price referred to in paragraph 8 of
Protocol No 4 is to be reduced in each Member
State where production exceeds
its guaranteed
national quantity (GNQ); whereas such reduction is
calculated differently depending on whether the
GNQ is exceeded both in Greece and Spain or
only in one of those Member States; whereas in the
case under consideration there has been an overrun

both in Greece and Spain; whereas,
therefore,
pursuant to Article 6(a) of Regulation (EEC) No
1554/95, the amount by which actual production
exceeds the GNQ in each Member State is to be
calculated as a percentage of its GNQ and the
guide price is to be reduced by a percentage equal
to half the percentage excess;

(3) Whereas Article 2(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 1964/
87 provides for the aid to be increased in each
Member State where actual production exceeds its
GNQ provided certain conditions are met; whereas
those conditions have not been met for the 1998/
99 marketing year;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Flax and Hemp,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.

(a) For the 1998/99 marketing year, actual production
of unginned cotton is fixed at 1 548 467 tonnes, of
which 1 210 900 tonnes for Greece and 337 567
tonnes for Spain.

(b) For the 1998/99 marketing year, actual production
of unginned cotton is fixed at 147 tonnes for
Portugal.

The amount by which the guide price is to be

2.
reduced for the 1998/99 marketing year is fixed at:

 EUR 29,126/100 kg for Greece,
 EUR 18,921/100 kg for Spain.

Article 2

(1) OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ L 184, 3.7.1987, p. 14.
(3) OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 48.
(4) OJ L 190, 4.7.1998, p. 4.

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

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 149/27

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

Done at Brussels, 15 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission