Commission proposal on the prices for agricultural products - Volume III - Legal instruments - Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION amending Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 on the common organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat
Date: 2000-02-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: basic price, comitology, common organisation of markets, goatmeat, prices policy, sheepmeat

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2000/0049(CNS)

Proposal for a

COUNCIL REGULATION EC No . . .

of . . .

amending Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 on the common organisation of the market in sheepmeat
and goatmeat

(2000/C 86 E/06)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Article 1

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 is amended as follows:

1. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

(cid:145)Article 3

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

Whereas:

that

(1) Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 (1)
provides
sheepmeat carcases
the basic price for
should be fixed in accordance with the criteria laid down
in Article 3(2). It also provides that the basic price should
the normal
be seasonally adjusted to take account of
seasonal
in
sheepmeat. The applicable parameters result in the prices
being fixed at the level laid down in this Regulation.

on the Community market

variations

The basic price for the 2001 and following marketing years
is hereby fixed at EUR 504,07/100 kg carcase weight.

The seasonally adjusted basic price, which takes account of
the normal seasonal variations on the Community market in
sheepmeat, is hereby fixed on a weekly basis as indicated in
Annex III to this Regulation.

Save where a decision to the contrary is taken by the
Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission, the marketing year shall begin on the first
Monday in January and shall end on the day preceding that
day in the following year.(cid:146)

(2) In accordance with the approach followed in the reform of
common market organisations within the framework of
Agenda 2000 and in order
to
organise their production over several years, it is appro-
priate to fix the basic price without a time limit. However
this shall not prejudge any revisions which may be justified
in the future.

to enable producers

2. Article 24 is hereby deleted.

3. Article 25 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 25

(3) Furthermore, in compliance with the provisions adopted by
the Council on the subject of comitology,
the corre-
sponding provisions of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98
should be amended. Since the measures necessary for the
this Regulation are management
implementation of
measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council
Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures
implementing powers
conferred on the Commission (2), they should be adopted
the management procedure provided for in
by use of
Article 4 of that Decision,

the exercise of

for

1.
The Commission shall be assisted by a committee, the
Management Committee for Sheep and Goats, composed of
representatives of the Member States and chaired by the
representative of the Commission.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph,
the
management procedure laid down in Article 4 of Decision
1999/468/EC shall apply, in compliance with Article 7(3)
thereof.

(1) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

The period provided for in Article 4(3) of Decision

3.
1999/468/EC shall be one month.(cid:146)

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4. The Annex to this Regulation shall be inserted as Annex III

Article 2

to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98.

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

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

Done at Brussels, . . .

For the Council

The President

. . .

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ANNEX

(cid:145)ANNEX III

Seasonally adjusted basic prices

Week

Basic price

Week

Basic price

(EUR/100 kg carcase weight)

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

515,06
518,58
522,67
525,59
528,51
531,42
534,35
537,27
539,61
541,94
543,11
543,11
541,94
540,30
538,09
534,94
532,60
529,09
525,59
520,92
515,08
509,23
502,24
496,39
491,72
487,05

27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52

483,55
481,20
480,01
479,45
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,83
478,86
478,98
479,10
479,20
479,30
480,00
480,95
482,00
483,20
486,10
490,75
496,60
503,85
511,50(cid:146)