Commission Regulation (EC) No 1130/2002 of 27 June 2002 fixing, for the 2001/02 marketing year, the actual production of unginned cotton in Spain and Portugal and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced as a result
Date: 2002-06-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, Spain, cotton, marketing, norm price, production, reduced price

28.6.2002

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 169/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1130/2002
of 27 June 2002
fixing, for the 2001/02 marketing year, the actual production of unginned cotton in Spain and Por-
tugal and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced as a result

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Commu-
nity,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in parti-
cular Protocol 4 on cotton, as last amended by Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 1050/2001 (1),

(5)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 of 22
May 2001 on production aid for cotton (2), and in particular
Article 19(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 16(3) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/
2001 of 2 August 2001 laying down detailed rules for
applying the cotton aid scheme (3) provides that actual
production in each marketing year is to be established
before 15 June of that year.

The third indent of Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1051/2001 provides that actual production is fixed tak-
ing account in particular of the quantities on which aid
has been applied for.

Consequently, for the 2001/02 marketing year actual
production in Spain is fixed at 336 984 tonnes and in
Portugal at 612 tonnes. As a result of problems in apply-
ing the cotton production aid scheme in Greece in the
first marketing year following the entry into force of
Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001, the information required
to assess actual production in Greece is not yet fully
available. Until that information becomes available and
has been analysed, actual production of unginned cotton
in Greece and the resultant reduction in the guide price
should therefore not be fixed.

(4)

Article 7(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1051/2001 stipulates
that, if actual production in Spain and Greece exceeds
1 031 000 tonnes, the guide price referred to in Article

3(1) of that Regulation is to be reduced in each Member
State where production exceeds its guaranteed national
quantity (GNQ). Such reduction is calculated differently
depending on whether the GNQ is exceeded both in
Greece and Spain or only in one of those Member States.

In the 2001/02 marketing year there is an overshoot of
the guaranteed national quantity in Spain, as there cer-
tainly will be in Greece based on the information already
available. Moreover, actual production in Spain is at a le-
vel below that of its guaranteed national quantity in-
creased by 113 000 tonnes. As a result, in accordance
with the first subparagraph of Article 7(4) of Regulation
(EC) No 1051/2001, the reduction in the guide price in
Spain is 50 % of the rate of overshoot referred to in
paragraph 3 of that Article. This reduction is therefore
fixed at the level indicated below.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in ac-
cordance with the opinion of the Management Commit-
tee for Natural Fibres,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
For the 2001/02 marketing year, actual production of un-
ginned cotton is fixed at 336 984 tonnes for Spain and 612
tonnes for Portugal.

2.
The amount by which the guide price is to be reduced for
the 2001/02 marketing year is fixed at EUR 18,815/100 kg
for Spain.

Article 2

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, 27 June 2002.

For the Commission
Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 148, 1.6.2001, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 210, 3.8.2001, p. 10.