Commission Regulation (EC) No 1235/1999 of 15 June 1999 definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1998 to 31 March 1999 for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1999-06-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Greece, Portugal, Spain, aid system, cotton, marketing

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1235/1999

of 15 June 1999

definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1998 to 31
March 1999 for the 1998/99 marketing year

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 paragraph 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 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) 1419/98 (3), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,

(1) Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95, the world market
price for unginned cotton is fixed periodically during the marketing year;

(2) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/1999 (4) fixes actual production of
unginned cotton and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced in each
Member State for the 1998/99 marketing year;

(3) Whereas Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3 May 1989
laying down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton (5), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1664/98 (6), provides for the aid on unginned cotton applicable
to each period for which a world market price has been determined to be fixed
before 15 July;

(4) Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on
certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro (7) provides for every
reference in a legal instrument to the ecu to be replaced by a reference to the euro at
a rate of one euro to one ecu as from 1 January 1999;

(5) Whereas the aid for the 1998/99 marketing year should accordingly be fixed

definitively,

(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) See page 26 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 123, 4.5.1989, p. 23.
(6) OJ L 211, 29.7.1998, p. 9.
(7) OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The aid on unginned cotton corresponding to the world prices fixed in Commission
(EC) No 1954/98 (2),
Regulations (EC) No 1865/98 (1),
(EC) No
(EC) No 2146/98 (6),
(EC) No 2087/98 (5),
2048/98 (4),
(EC) No 2302/98 (9),
2243/98 (8),
(EC) No 2312/98 (10),
2478/98 (12),
(EC) No 2571/98 (13),
(EC) No
85/1999 (16), (EC) No 238/1999 (17), (EC) No 262/1999 (18), (EC) No 306/1999 (19), (EC) No
355/1999 (20), (EC) No 371/1999 (21), (EC) No 396/1999 (22), (EC) No 426/1999 (23), (EC) No
474/1999 (24), and (EC) No 687/1999 (25), shall be as set out in the Annex hereto, which
amount shall be fixed definitively from the entry into force of each of the Regulations
concerned.

(EC) No 2195/98 (7),
(EC) No 2372/98 (11),

(EC) No 2707/98 (14),

(EC) No 2859/98 (15),

(EC) No 2010/98 (3),

(EC) No

(EC) No

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

Article 2

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

(1) OJ L 242, 1.9.1998, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 253, 15.9.1998, p. 17.
(3) OJ L 258, 22.9.1998, p. 20.
(4) OJ L 263, 26.9.1998, p. 30.
(5) OJ L 266, 1.10.1998, p. 22.
(6) OJ L 270, 7.10.1998, p. 46.
(7) OJ L 276, 13.10.1998, p. 5.
(8) OJ L 281, 17.10.1998, p. 29.
(9) OJ L 287, 24.10.1998, p. 23.
(10) OJ L 288, 27.10.1998, p. 20.
(11) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 75.
(12) OJ L 308, 18.11.1998, p. 37.
(13) OJ L 322, 1.12.1998, p. 8.
(14) OJ L 340, 16.12.1998, p. 21.
(15) OJ L 358, 31.12.1998, p. 77.
(16) OJ L 8, 14.1.1999, p. 20.
(17) OJ L 23, 30.1.1999, p. 50.
(18) OJ L 30, 4.2.1999, p. 27.
(19) OJ L 37, 11.2.1999, p. 23.
(20) OJ L 44, 18.2.1999, p. 16.
(21) OJ L 45, 19.2.1999, p. 37.
(22) OJ L 48, 24.2.1999, p. 13.
(23) OJ L 52, 27.2.1999, p. 9.
(24) OJ L 56, 4.3.1999, p. 38.
(25) OJ L 86, 30.3.1999, p. 13.

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ANNEX

AID FOR UNGINNED COTTON

Regulation (EC) No

Aid amount

(EUR/100 kg)

1865/98

1954/98

2010/98

2048/98

2087/98

2146/98

2195/98

2243/98

2302/98

2312/98

2372/98

2478/98

2571/98

2707/98

2859/98

85/1999

238/1999

262/1999

306/1999

355/1999

371/1999

396/1999

426/1999

474/1999

687/1999

Spain

54,306

57,923

58,716

59,328

59,612

60,642

61,391

61,939

65,028

64,856

65,273

65,744

65,626

65,559

65,808

65,361

65,010

61,952

64,797

62,017

64,818

61,592

61,683

61,017

60,467

Greece

44,101

47,718

48,511

49,123

49,407

50,437

51,186

51,734

54,823

54,651

55,068

55,539

55,421

55,354

55,603

55,156

54,805

51,747

54,592

51,812

54,613

51,387

51,478

50,812

50,262

Portugal

73,227

76,844

77,637

78,249

78,533

79,563

80,312

80,860

83,949

83,777

84,194

84,665

84,547

84,480

84,729

84,282

83,931

80,873

83,718

80,938

83,739

80,513

80,604

79,938

79,388