Council Regulation (EC) No 1674/1999 of 19 July 1999 fixing the amounts of aid for flax fibre and hemp and the amount withheld to finance measures to promote the use of flax fibre for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-07-19
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: flax, hemp, marketing, production aid

30. 7. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 199/5

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 1674/1999

of 19 July 1999

fixing the amounts of aid for flax fibre and hemp and the amount withheld to finance measures to
promote the use of flax fibre for the 1999/2000 marketing year

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 of 29
June 1970 on the common organisation of the market in flax
and hemp (1), and in particular Articles 2(3) and 4(3) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (3),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (4),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 provides that
the amounts of aid for flax grown mainly for fibre and
for hemp grown in the Community are to be fixed each
year;

in accordance with Article 4(2) of that Regulation, this
amount shall be fixed per hectare of area sown and
harvested so as to ensure an even balance between the
volume of production required in the Community and
the amount that can be marketed;
it must be fixed,
taking into account the price for fibres and flax and
hemp seed on the world market;

Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 provides
that the portion of aid for financing Community meas-
ures to encourage the use of flax fibre is to be fixed
when the aid is fixed for the marketing year in question
in accordance with the criteria referred to in the said
Article 2(3); it is to be fixed in the light of trends on the

market in flax, the amount of the aid for flax and the
cost of the measures to be introduced; account should
also be taken of the financing already provided for;

(4)

application of the abovementioned criteria entails fixing
the amount of aid and the portion of the aid to be used
for financing measures to promote the use of flax fibre
at the levels set out below,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

the 1999/2000 marketing year,

For
the amounts of aid
provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 1308/70 shall
be:

(a) EUR 815,86 per hectare as regards flax;

(b) EUR 662,88 per hectare as regards hemp.

Article 2

For the 1999/2000 marketing year, the amount of the aid for
flax to be used to finance the measures to promote the use of
flax fibre referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
1308/70 shall be EUR 0 per hectare.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 August 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 July 1999.

For the Council

The President

K. HEMILÄ

(1) OJ L 146, 4.7.1970, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 3290/94 (OJ L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 105).

(2) OJ C 59, 1.3.1999, p. 9.
(3) OJ C 219, 30.7.1999.
(4) OJ C 169, 16.6.1999.