CELEX: 31995R1694
Language: en
Date: 1995-07-11 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1694/95 of 11 July 1995 fixing the aid for cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year

12. 7. 95           EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 161 /23
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1694/95
                                                        of 11 July 1995
                               fixing the aid for cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       account of budget funding available following the applica­
                                                                   tion of that reduction ; whereas, in these circumstances,
                                                                   the abovementioned amount of aid has provisionally been
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             calculated on the basis of a provisional overall reduction
 Community,                                                        of ECU 18,284 per 100 kilograms for Greece and without
                                                                   reduction for Spain ;
 Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in
 particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton            Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 provides for
 annexed thereto, as last amended by Council Regulation            amendments to the methods of determining the world
 (EC) No 1553/95(0,                                                market price of unginned cotton which will apply to the
                                                                   1995/96 marketing year ; whereas, pending the adoption
                                                                   by the Commission of detailed rules of application for the
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of            implementation of that new method, the method referred
 29 June 1995 laying down the general rules for the                to in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No
 system of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC)           2169/81 (% as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
 No 2169/81 (2), and in particular Article 5 (1 ) thereof,         1554/95, should be used, following the procedures
                                                                   referred to in Commission Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   1234/95 Q, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
                                                                   1583/95 (8); whereas, when the abovementioned detailed
 Whereas pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
 1554/95, aid must be granted for unginned cotton                  rules of application have been adopted the amount of aid
 harvested in the Community when the world market                  will have to be replaced by an amount calculated in
                                                                   accordance with the new rules,
 price for unginned cotton is below the guide price ;
Whereas the aid is equal to the difference between these
 two prices ;
                                                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the guide price of unginned cotton for the
 1995/96 marketing year is laid down in paragraph 8 of
 the abovementioned Protocol 4 ;
                                                                                             Article 1
Whereas the third sentence of Article 7 (1 ) of Commis­            1 . The aid for unginned cotton referred to in Article 5
 sion Regulation (EEC) No 1201 /89 of 3 May 1989 laying           of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 shall be fixed for the
 down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton Q),          1995/96 marketing year at :
 as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2046/93 (4),
 provides that an application for aid may be lodged from 1        — ECU 72,851 per 100 kilograms for Spain,
June 1995 for the 1995/96 marketing year ; whereas the
 aid for that marketing year should therefore be fixed ;          — ECU 54,567 per 100 kilograms for Greece.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) and (4) of Council             2. However, the amount of the aid will be replaced
                                                                  with effect from 12 July 1995 to take account of the
 Regulation (EEC) No 1964/87 of 2 July 1987 adjusted the
system of aid for cotton introduced by Protocol 4 and             consequences of the stabilizer system as well as any adap­
annexed to the Act of Accession of Greece (% as last              tations to the aid arrangements.
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1553/95, the aid for
cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year is adjusted by the
reduction fixed to take account of the expected overrun of
the maximum guaranteed quantity and the national                                             Article 2
guaranteed quantities fixed in that Article and also taking
                                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on 12 July 1995.
(') OJ  No  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ  No  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(3) OJ  No  L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23.                             (*) OJ No L 211 , 31 . 7. 1981 , p. 2.
(«) OJ  No  L 185, 28. 7. 1993, p. 19.                            0 OJ No L 121 , 1 . 6. 1995, p. 21 .
Is) OJ No L 184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 14.                               (8) OJ No L 150 , 1 . 7. 1995, p. 79 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 11 July 1995.
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Franz FISCHLER
                                                                Member of the Commission