CELEX: 31995R1908
Language: en
Date: 1995-08-01 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1908/95 of 1 August 1995 fixing the aid for cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year

No L 182/ 12        | EN                Official Journal of the European Communities                                2. 8 . 95
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1908/95
                                                      of 1 August 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 ('),                                             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 (6), 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 0, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
                                                                  1 583/95 (8); whereas, when the abovementioned detailed
Whereas    pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No
                                                                  rules of application have been adopted the amount of aid
1554/95,   aid must be granted for unginned cotton
                                                                  will have to be replaced by an amount calculated in
harvested   in the Community when the world market                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 (3),          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 75,589 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 57,305 per 100 kilograms for Greece.
                                                                  2.    However, the amount of the aid will be replaced
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) and (4) of Council
Regulation (EEC) No 1964/87 of 2 July 1987 adjusted the           with effect from 2 August 1995 to take account of 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 1 995/96 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 2 August 1995.
(')  OJ No L  148 , 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
0    OJ No L  148 , 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(-1) OJ No L  123,  4. 5. 1989, p. 23.                            (6) OJ No L 211 , 31 . 7. 1981 , p. 2.
(4)  OJ No L  185,  28. 7. 1993, p. 19.                           0 OJ No L 121 , 1 . 6. 1995, p. 21 .
(5   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, 1 August 1995.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                               Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                             Member of the Commission