Commission Regulation (EC) No 2041/2005 of  14 December 2005  laying down, for the 2005/06 marketing year, the revised production estimate for unginned cotton and the resulting new provisional reduction in the guide price
Date: 2005-12-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural production, cotton, marketing year, norm price, reduced price

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2041/2005

of 14 December 2005

laying down, for the 2005/06 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,

(4)

(5)

No 1591/2001 and of uncertainty about the situation
with regard to Greek production, as a safety margin, a
percentage increase of 12,5 % for Greece and 7,5 % for
Spain and Portugal should be applied for the 2005/06
marketing year.

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,

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.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 2005/06 marketing year, the revised production

1.
estimate for unginned cotton is hereby set at:

Article 19(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1051/2001 provides
that the revised production estimate is to be established
the harvest. That
the progress of
taking account of
revised estimate should therefore be fixed on the basis
of data available for the 2005/06 marketing year.

— 1 100 000 tonnes for Greece,
— 335 780 tonnes for Spain,
— 611 tonnes for Portugal.

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
to be determined based on the
of
revised production estimate, plus at least 7,5 %. In view
of
figures on quantities placed in
supervised storage notified by the Member States in
accordance with Article 15(4)(c)(i) of Regulation (EC)

the most

recent

For the 2005/06 marketing year,

2.
reduction in the guide price shall be:

the new provisional

— EUR 39,650/100 kg for Greece,
— EUR 23,918/100 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 into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of 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, 14 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission