Commission Regulation (EC) No 2141/2004 of 15 December 2004 laying down, for the 2004/2005 marketing year, the revised production estimate for unginned cotton and the resulting new provisional reduction in the guide price
Date: 2004-12-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: cotton, marketing year, norm price, production, reduced price

16.12.2004

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2141/2004

of 15 December 2004

laying down, for the 2004/2005 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
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in
particular 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)

the

revised production estimate

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
for unginned
cotton referred to in the second subparagraph of
Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 and
the resulting new provisional 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 2004/2005 marketing year.

the advance is

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
to be determined based on the
revised production estimate, plus at least 7,5 %. In view
figures on quantities placed in
of
supervised storage notified by the Member States in
accordance with Article 15(4)(c)(i) of Regulation (EC)
No 1591/2001 and of uncertainty about the situation
with regard to Greek production, as a safety margin, a

the most

recent

percentage increase of 12 % for Greece and 7,5 % for
Spain and
the
should
2004/2005 marketing year.

Portugal

applied

for

be

(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
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Natural Fibres,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2004/2005 marketing year, the revised production

1.
estimate for unginned cotton is hereby set at:

— 1 103 000 tonnes for Greece,

— 344 640 tonnes for Spain,

— 926 tonnes for Portugal.

For the 2004/2005 marketing year, the new provisional

2.
reduction in the guide price shall be:

— EUR 39 437/100kg for Greece,

— EUR 27 957/100 kg for Spain,

— EUR 0/100 kg for Portugal.

(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).

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
publication in the Official

into force on the day of
Journal of

its
the European Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 15 December 2004.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission