Commission Regulation (EC) No 408/2000 of 23 February 2000 determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per female goat in the Member States and the payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community for the 1999 marketing year
Date: 2000-02-23
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, financial loss, goatmeat, less-favoured region, production aid, sheepmeat

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 408/2000

of 23 February 2000

determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per female goat in the
Member States and the payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-
favoured areas of the Community for the 1999 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) 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 Council 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 1257/1999 (3), and in particular Article
13 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

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. Those areas are
defined in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and
in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2738/
1999 of 21 December 1999 determining the mountain
areas in which the premium for goatmeat producers is
granted (4).

Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,
the Member States were authorised by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1163/1999 (5)
to pay an initial
advance and by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2163/
1999 (6) to pay a second advance to sheepmeat and
goatmeat producers. The definitive premiums to be paid
in respect of the 1999 marketing year must thus be
fixed.

Pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,
the premium payable to producers of heavy lambs in
respect of the 1999 marketing year is obtained by multi-
plying the loss of income by a coefficient expressing the
annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe
producing these lambs, expressed per 100 kg of carcass
weight. In accordance with the abovementioned Regula-
tion, the premium per ewe for producers of light lambs
and per female of the caprine species should be 80 % of
the premium for producers of heavy lambs.

(1) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 173, 27.6.1992, p. 13.
(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(4) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 59.
(5) OJ L 140, 3.6.1999, p. 20.
(6) OJ L 265, 13.10.1999, p. 18.

(4)

(5)

(6)

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 Article
13(2) of that Regulation. That coefficient is fixed at 7 %
by Article 13(4) of the said Regulation.

It is opportune to foresee that the aid provided for in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 of 14 May 1990
instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in
certain less-favoured areas of the Community (7), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 193/98 (8), or the
balance of this aid, resulting from the application of
Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1163/1999, should be
granted before a certain date and under what conditions.

Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides for the applica-
tion of specific measures relating to agricultural produc-
tion in the Canary Islands. Those measures entail the
grant of a supplement
to the premium payable to
producers of light lambs and she goats on the same
conditions as those governing the grant of the premium
referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98.
Those conditions provide for Spain to be authorised to
pay the supplement to the premium.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Sheep and Goats,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

It is hereby noted that the difference between the basic price
less the impact of the coefficient provided for in Article 13(2)
of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and the Community market
price during the 1999 marketing year was EUR 138,169 per
100 kilograms.

Article 2

The coefficient provided for in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 2467/98 is hereby fixed at 15,69 kilograms.

Article 3

The premium payable per ewe in respect of the 1999

1.
marketing year shall be as follows:

(7) OJ L 132, 23.5.1990, p. 17.
(8) OJ L 20, 27.1.1998, p. 18.

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— producers of heavy lambs: EUR 21,679,
— producers of light lambs: EUR 17,343.

2.
The premium payable per female of the caprine species
and per region in areas listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No
2467/98 and in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2738/1999 in
respect of the 1999 marketing year is EUR 17,343.

Article 4

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 limits and at the rates provided for in Article 5(7)
and the second indent of the second subparagraph of Article
5(8) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 or, should it be the case,
the balance of this aid, in the event of Article 4 of Regulation
(EC) No 1163/1999 being applied, shall be paid before 15
October 2000.

Article 5

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92, the
supplement to the premium for the 1999 marketing year to be
granted to producers of light lambs and she-goats located in
the Canary Islands, within the limits and at the rates provided
for in Article 5(7) and the second indent of
the second
subparagraph of Article 5(8) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98
shall be as follows:
— EUR 5 per ewe in the case of producers as referred to in

Article 5(3) of that Regulation,

— EUR 5 per she-goat in the case of producers as referred to

in Article 5(5) of that Regulation.

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, 23 February 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission