Commission Regulation (EC) No 2301/2000 of 17 October 2000 determining, for the 2000 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the second advance payment for this premium
Date: 2000-10-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: eligible region, financial loss, goat, production aid, sheep, terms for aid

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2301/2000

of 17 October 2000

determining, for the 2000 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of
the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the second advance payment for this
premium

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), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
1669/2000 (2), 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 (3), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 (4), 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 (5).

Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98
and to enable an advance payment to be made to sheep-
meat and goatmeat producers, the foreseeable loss of
income should be estimated in the light of the foresee-
able trend in market prices.

Pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,
the amount of the premium per ewe for producers of
heavy lambs is obtained by multiplying the loss of
income referred to in the second subparagraph of para-
graph 1 of that Article by a coefficient expressing the
annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe
producing these lambs expressed per 100 kilograms of
carcass weight. The coefficient for 2000 has not yet
been fixed in view of the lack of full Community statis-
tics. Pending the fixing of that coefficient, a provisional
coefficient should be used. Article 5(3) of that Regula-
tion fixes the coefficient for producers of light lambs at
80 % of the coefficient for producers of heavy lambs.
Article 5(5) of that Regulation also fixes the amount per
female for producers of the caprine species at 80 % of
the premium per ewe for producers of heavy lambs.

(1) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 173, 27.6.1992, p. 13.
(4) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(5) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 59.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

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

the expected premium.

In accordance with Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No
2467/98, the half-yearly advance payment is fixed at
30 % of
In accordance with
Article 5(3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/
93 (6), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1410/
1999 (7), the advance payment is to be paid only if it is
equal to or greater than EUR 1.

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 ewe premium 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 condi-
tions provide that Spain is authorised to pay an advance
on the said supplementary premium.

For budgetary reasons,
the second advance to the
premium may not be paid before 16 October 2000.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The difference, which is hereby estimated between the basic
price, reduced by the impact of the coefficient laid down in
Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98, and the foresee-
able market price for 2000,
is EUR 112,785 per 100 kilo-
grams.

Article 2

The estimated amount of the premium payable per ewe is

1.
as follows:

— producers of heavy lambs: EUR 17,696,

— producers of light lambs: EUR 14,157.

(6) OJ L 245, 1.10.1993, p. 99.
(7) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.

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Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,
2.
the second advance that the Member States are authorised to
pay to producers shall be as follows:

— producers of heavy lambs: EUR 5,309 per ewe,
— producers of light lambs: EUR 4,247 per ewe.

Article 3

The estimated amount of

1.
the premium payable per
female of the caprine species in the areas designated in Annex I
to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1 of Regulation
(EC) No 2738/1999 is EUR 14,157.

2.
Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,
the second advance which the Member States are authorised to
pay to goat meat producers located in the areas designated in
paragraph 1 shall be EUR 4,247 per female of the caprine
species.

Article 4

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92, the
second advance on the supplementary premium for the 2000
marketing year for producers of light lambs and she-goats in
the Canary Islands shall be as follows:

— EUR 1,062 per ewe in the case of producers referred to in

Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98,

— EUR 1,062 per she-goat in the case of producers referred
to in Article 5(5) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98.

Article 5

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

It shall apply from 16 October 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 17 October 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission