Commission Regulation (EC) No 1281/2000 of 19 June 2000 definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1999 to 31 March 2000 for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 2000-06-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, cotton, marketing, world market price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1281/2000
of 19 June 2000
definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1999 to 31 March 2000 for the
1999/2000 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) No 1419/98 (3), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95, the world market price for unginned cotton is fixed
periodically during the marketing year.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2000 (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 1999/2000
marketing year.

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 1624/1999 (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.

The aid for the 1999/2000 marketing year should accordingly be fixed definitively at the levels
indicated below,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(EC) No 2231/1999 (12),
(EC) No 2526/1999 (16),

The aid on unginned cotton corresponding to the world prices fixed in Commission Regulations (EC) No
1876/1999 (7), (EC) No 1947/1999 (8), (EC) No 2013/1999 (9), (EC) No 2077/1999 (10), (EC) No 2150/
1999 (11),
(EC) No 2462/
(EC) No 2752/
1999 (15),
1999 (19), (EC) No 54/2000 (20), (EC) No 119/2000 (21), (EC) No 125/2000 (22), (EC) No 172/2000 (23), (EC)
No 246/2000 (24), (EC) No 315/2000 (25), (EC) No 387/2000 (26), (EC) No 460/2000 (27), (EC) No 512/
2000 (28), (EC) No 533/2000 (29) and (EC) No 602/2000 (30), 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 2388/1999 (14),
(EC) No 2721/1999 (18),

(EC) No 2296/1999 (13),
(EC) No 2615/1999 (17),

(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 19 of this Official Journal.
(5) OJ L 123, 4.5.1989, p. 23.
(6) OJ L 192, 24.7.1999, p. 39.
(7) OJ L 231, 1.9.1999, p. 13.
(8) OJ L 241, 11.9.1999, p. 17.
(9) OJ L 248, 21.9.1999, p. 27.
(10) OJ L 256, 1.10.1999, p. 35.
(11) OJ L 263, 9.10.1999, p. 4.
(12) OJ L 271, 21.10.1999, p. 21.
(13) OJ L 280, 30.10.1999, p. 5.
(14) OJ L 288, 11.11.1999, p. 23.
(15) OJ L 299, 20.11.1999, p. 29.
(16) OJ L 306, 1.12.1999, p. 8.
(17) OJ L 318, 11.12.1999, p. 3.
(18) OJ L 327, 21.12.1999, p. 51.
(19) OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 33.
(20) OJ L 6, 11.1.2000, p. 21.
(21) OJ L 14, 20.1.2000, p. 22.
(22) OJ L 16, 21.1.2000, p. 50.
(23) OJ L 21, 26.1.2000, p. 14.
(24) OJ L 25, 1.2.2000, p. 20.
(25) OJ L 36, 11.2.2000, p. 28.
(26) OJ L 47, 19.2.2000, p. 25.
(27) OJ L 56, 1.3.2000, p. 28.
(28) OJ L 63, 10.3.2000, p. 14.
(29) OJ L 64, 11.3.2000, p. 18.
(30) OJ L 72, 21.3.2000, p. 6.

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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, 19 June 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

AID FOR UNGINNED COTTON

Aid amount

(EUR/100 kg)

Regulation (EC) No

1876/1999

1947/1999

2013/1999

2077/1999

2150/1999

2231/1999

2296/1999 (1)

2388/1999

2462/1999

2526/1999

2615/1999

2721/1999

2752/1999

54/2000

119/2000

125/2000

172/2000

246/2000

315/2000

387/2000

460/2000

512/2000

533/2000

602/2000

Spain

50,306

50,718

50,536

51,369

52,028

52,130

51,765

51,790

52,054

51,768

52,320

52,341

52,255

52,397

50,495

49,846

46,735

45,606

45,120

44,108

42,875

39,884

40,129

39,702

Greece

45,842

46,254

46,072

46,905

47,564

47,666

47,301

47,326

47,590

47,304

47,856

47,877

47,791

47,933

46,031

45,382

42,271

41,142

40,656

39,644

38,411

35,420

35,665

35,238

Portugal

84,535

84,947

84,765

85,598

86,257

86,359

85,994

86,019

86,283

85,997

86,549

86,570

86,484

86,626

84,724

84,075

80,964

79,835

79,349

78,337

77,104

74,113

74,358

73,931

(1) As corrected by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2349/1999 (OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 68).