CELEX: 31983R2156
Language: en
Date: 1983-07-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2156/83 of 29 July 1983 fixing the aid for cotton

30 . 7. 83                          Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 206/45
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2156/83
                                                       of 29 July 1983
                                                  fixing the aid for cotton
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN
                                                                   3 and 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2183/81
  COMMUNITIES,                                                    of 30 July 1981 laying down rules implementing the
                                                                  system of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regula­
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           tion (EEC) No 2081 /83 Q ; whereas the world market
  Economic Community,                                             price is determined on the basis of the most favourable
                                                                  offers and quotations recorded, excluding offers and
  Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and            quotations which cannot be regarded as representative
                                                                  of the real market trend ;
  in particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 thereto,
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    Whereas for the 1983/84 marketing year the offers and
  2169/81 of 27 July 1981 laying down the general rules           quotations are increased by those customs duties
  for the system of aid for cotton ('), as amended by             applied in Greece when importing from other Member
                                                                  States ;
  Regulation (EEC) No 1982/82 (2), and in particular
 Article 5 ( 1 ) thereof,
                                                                  Whereas the necessary adjustments must be made in
 Having regard to the opinion of the Monetary                     cases where the offers and quotations recorded do not
 Committee,                                                       satisfy the requirements indicated above ;
 Whereas, under Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No                 Whereas, under Article 4 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No
 2169/81 , aid must be granted for unginned cotton                2169/81 , if there are no suitable offers or quotations
 harvested in the Community when the world market                 for determining the world market price for cotton
 price for unginned cotton is below the guide price ;            seed, this price is to be established on the basis of the
                                                                 value of the products obtained from the processing of
 Whereas the aid is equal to the difference between               those seeds, less the cost of crushing ; whereas this
                                                                 value is determined in accordance with Article 4 of
 these two prices ;
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 2183/81 ;
 Whereas the guide price for the 1983/84 marketing
 year was fixed by Council Regulation (EEC) No                   Whereas, if the subsidy system is to operate normally,
 1579/83 of 14 June 1983 (3) ;                                   subsidies should be calculated on the following basis :
                                                                 — in the case of currencies which are maintained in
 Whereas the world market price for unginned cotton                   relation to each other at any given moment within
 is determined periodically on the basis of the world                 a band of 2,25 % , a rate of exchange based on
 market prices recorded for ginned cotton and cotton                  their central rate,
 seed, taking into account the estimated yield of the
 Community harvest in cotton seed and in ginned                  — for other currencies, an exchange rate based on the
 cotton and also the net cost of ginning ;                            arithmetic mean of the spot market rates of each of
                                                                      these currencies recorded for a given period in
                                                                      relation to the Community currencies referred to
Whereas the world market price for ginned cotton and
 cotton seed is determined in accordance with Article 4               in the previous indent ;
 of Regulation (EEC) No 2169/81 ;
                                                                 Whereas the aid must be fixed once a month , and in
Whereas, if the world market price for unginned                  such a way that it can be applied from the first day of
cotton cannot be determined as described above, this             the month following the date of fixing ; Whereas it
price shall be established on the basis of the most              may be altered between fixings ;
recent price determined ;
                                                                 Whereas it follows from applying these provisions to
Whereas the above values are established on the basis            the offers and quotations known to the Commission
                                                                 that the aid for cotton should be as set out in this
of the prices determined in accordance with Articles 2,
                                                                 Regulation,
(') OJ No L 211 , 31 . 7. 1981 , p. 2.
(2) OJ No L 215, 23 . 7. 1982, p. 5 .                            (4) OJ No L 211 , 31 . 7. 1981 , p . 35 .
0 OJ No L 163, 22. 6 . 1983 , p. 21 .                            0 OJ No L 203, 27. 7. 1983, p. 17.
 ---pagebreak--- No L 206/46                      Official Journal of the European Communities                         30 . 7 . 83
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
                                                                                  Article 2
                      Article 1
The aid for unginned cotton referred to in Article 5 of
Regulation (EEC) No 2169/81 shall be 27,126 ECU             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 August
per 100 kilograms .                                         1983 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 29 July 1983 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                      Poul DALSAGER
                                                                 Member of the Commission