Commission Regulation (EC) No 2186/2003 of 15 December 2003 laying down, for the 2003/04 marketing year, the revised production estimate for unginned cotton and the resulting new provisional reduction in the guide price
Date: 2003-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cotton, crop production, marketing year, norm price, reduced price

L 327/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

16.12.2003

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2186/2003

of 15 December 2003

laying down, for the 2003/04 marketing year, the revised production estimate for unginned cotton
and the resulting new provisional reduction in the guide price

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 par-
ticular Protocol 4 on cotton (1),

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 16(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1591/
2001 of 2 August 2001 laying down detailed rules for
applying the cotton aid scheme (3) provides that
the
revised production estimate for unginned cotton referred
to in the second subparagraph of Article 14(3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1051/2001 and the resulting new provi-
sional reduction in the guide price are to be established
before 1 December of the marketing year concerned.

Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 provides
that the revised production estimate is to be established
taking account of
the harvest. That
the progress of
revised estimate should therefore be fixed on the basis of
data available for the 2003/04 marketing year.

The second subparagraph of Article 14(3) of Regulation
(EC) No 1051/2001 provides that from 16 December
following the start of the marketing year, the amount of
the advance is to be determined based on the revised
production estimate, plus at least 7,5 %. In view of the
most recent figures for the 2003/04 marketing year on
quantities placed in supervised storage notified by the
Member States in accordance with Article 15(4)(c)(i) of
Regulation (EC) No 1591/2001, as a safety margin, a
percentage increase of 9,5 % for Greece, 7,5 % for Spain
and 7,5 % for Portugal should be applied.

(4)

(5)

The new provisional reduction in the guide price must
be calculated in accordance with Article 7 of Regulation
(EC) No 1051/2001, but replacing actual production by
the revised production estimate increased as above.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Natural Fibres,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2003/04 marketing year, the revised production

1.
estimate for unginned cotton shall be:

— 1 065 668 tonnes

— 306 787 tonnes

— 1 108 tonnes

for Greece,

for Spain,

for Portugal.

For the 2003/04 marketing year, the new provisional

2.
reduction in the guide price shall be:

— 26,150 EUR/100 kg

for Greece,

— 17,221 EUR/100 kg

for Spain,

— 0 EUR/100 kg

for Portugal.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) Protocol as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1050/2001

(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. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1486/2002 (OJ L 223, 20.8.2002, p. 3).