CELEX: 51989PC0660(43)
Language: en
Date: 1990-01-11
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) INSTITUTING SPECIFIC AID FOR SHEEP AND GOAT FARMING IN CERTAIN LESS-FAVOURED AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY

No C 49/60                                 Official Journal of the European Communities                                  28. 2. 90
                                                             Proposal for a
                                             COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No . . .
                                                                 of...
                    instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the
                                                              Community
                                                             (90/C49/43)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                              of premiums to producers of sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                                       calculated in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EEC)
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                       No 3013/89 shall be supplemented by specific aid in respect
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 43                      of rural society measures of a unit amount of:
 thereof,
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    — ECU 4 per ewe for the producers referred to in Article 5
                                                                           (2) of that Regulation,
 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
                                                                       — ECU 2,8 per ewe for producers referred to in Article 5 {3)
 Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social                   of that Regulation and those qualifying under Article 5
 Committee,                                                                (4),
 Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89
                                                                       — ECU 2,8 per she-goat for producers referred to in
 of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of the
                                                                           Article 5 (5) of that Regulation,
 market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (*), provides for
 measures to reduce the ewe premium in the sheepmeat and               — ECU 2,8 per female of the ovine species where the second
 goatmeat sector where ewe numbers exceed a certain ceiling;               subparagraph of Article 5 (8) of that Regulation is
 whereas that reduction is likely to have unfavourable                     applied,
 consequences in less-favoured areas within the meaning of
 Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on                      — ECU 3,2 per she-goat where Article 22 (6) of that
 mountain and hill farming and farming in certain                          Regulation is applied.
 less-favoured areas (2), where there are practically no
 alternatives to sheepmeat production; whereas, in                     2.     The specific aid provided for in paragraph 1 shall be
 accordance with the measures provided for by the                      granted under the same conditions as those laid down for
 Commission in its report on the future of rural society,              the grant of the premium to sheepmeat and goatmeat
 provision should be made for compensation in the form of              producers.
 flat-rate aid for those areas; whereas this Regulation should
 apply from the 1991 marketing year in view of the reduction
 in the foreseeable ewe premium for that marketing year,
                                                                                                  Article 2
 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                       following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                       European Communities.
                              Article 1
 1.     In less-favoured areas within the meaning of Article 3         It shall apply from the beginning of the 1991 marketing
 (3), (4) and (5) of Directive 75/268/EEC, the unit amounts            year.
                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                    States.
                    Done at Brussels,
                                                                                          For the Council
(>) OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1.