Commission Regulation (EC) No 1066/2001 of 31 May 2001 determining, for the 2001 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community
Date: 2001-05-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, goat, less-favoured agricultural area, market prices, production aid, sheep

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1066/2001

of 31 May 2001

determining, for the 2001 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of
premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the first advance payment for this
premium and an advance payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain
less-favoured areas of the Community

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 2826/2000 (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 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 kg of carcase
weight. The coefficient for 2001 has not yet been fixed
in view of the lack of full Community statistics. Pending
the fixing of that coefficient, a provisional coefficient
should be used. Article 5(3) of that Regulation also fixes
the amount per ewe for producers of light lambs and
per
the
the caprine species at 80 % of
premium per ewe for producers of heavy lambs.

female of

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

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 4(3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/
93 (6) as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 394/
2001 (7), the advance payment is to be paid only if it is
equal to or greater than EUR 1.

Under Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 (8), as last amended
by Regulation (EC) No 193/98 (9), the Council instituted
specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-
favoured areas of the Community. It lays down that the
aid is to be granted under the same conditions as those
for the grant of the premium for producers of sheep-
meat and goatmeat. In view of the present uncertainty of
the market situation in certain Member States,
the
Member States should be authorised,
for the 2001
marketing year, to pay immediately an amount equal to
90 % of the aid.

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 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 that Spain is authorised to pay
an advance on the said supplementary premium.

(8)

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

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 2001,

is EUR 83,785 per 100 kg.

(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 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.
(5) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 59.

(6) OJ L 245, 1.10.1993, p. 99.
(7) OJ L 58, 28.2.2001, p. 9.
(8) OJ L 132, 23.5.1990, p. 17.
(9) OJ L 20, 27.1.1998, p. 18.

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Article 2

The estimated amount of the premium payable in respect of
the 2001 marketing year shall be as follows:
— EUR 13,129 per ewe in case of producers of heavy lambs,
— EUR 10,503 per ewe in case of producers of light lambs,
— EUR 10,503 per she-goat in the areas designated in Annex
to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1 of

I
Regulation (EC) No 2738/1999.

No 1323/90, within the meaning of Council Regulation (EC)
No 1257/99 (1), shall be as follows:

— EUR 5,977 per ewe in case of producers of heavy lambs,
— EUR 5,397 per ewe in case of producers of light lambs,
— EUR 5,379 per she-goat in the areas designated in Annex I
to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2738/1999.

Article 3

Article 5

Pursuant to Article 5(6) of Regulation (EC) No 2467/98, the
first advance that the Member States are authorised to pay to
producers shall be as follows:
— EUR 3,939 per ewe in case of producers of heavy lambs.
— EUR 3,151 per ewe in case of producers of light lambs.
— EUR 3,151 per she-goat in the areas designated in Annex I
to Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 and in Article 1 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2738/1999.

Pursuant to Article 13(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 the
first advance on the supplementary premium for the 2001
marketing year for producers of light lambs and she-goats in
the Canary Islands within the limits provided for in Article 1(1)
of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 (2)
shall be
EUR 1,386 per ewe and/or she-goat.

Article 4

Article 6

The advance of 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)

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, 31 May 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(2) OJ L 337, 4.12.1990, p. 7.