CELEX: 51984PC0020(47)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) OF LAYING DOWN GENERAL RULES FOR THE GRANTING OF PREMIUMS TO SHEEPMEAT PRODUCERS AND REPEALING REGULATION ( EEC ) N. 2643/80

5. 3. 84                            Official Journal of the European Communities                         No C 62/73
              Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down general rules for the granting of
                   premiums to sheepmeat producers and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2643/80
                                                     (84/C 62/45)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                             within the territory of a single Member
COMMUNITIES,                                                             State, except in the case of Greece, where
                                                                        the minimum would be five ewes;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro-
pean Economic Community,                                            (b) a group of natural of legal persons sharing
                                                                        means of agricultural production for the
                                                                        purpose of jointly keeping at least 10 ewes
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                            within the territory of a single Member
1837/80 of 27 June 1980 on the common organ-                             State.
ization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('),
as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No ..., and
in particular Article 5 (7) thereof,                          2.    'Eligible ewe' shall mean:
                                                                    a female sheep which has been put to the ram
                                                                    for the first time or which has lambed at least
Having regard to the proposal from the Commis-                      once and is kept on the holding at the date on
sion,                                                               which the application for a premium is made,
                                                                    but excluding cull ewes.
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80
provides for a premium to be granted to sheepmeat
producers to offset any loss in income they may suf-
fer; whereas the beneficiaries under this scheme                                       Article 2
should be specified;
                                                              The ewe premiums referred to in Article 5 of Regu-
                                                               lation (EEC) No 1837/80 shall be paid only if they
Whereas the eligible ewes should be defined accord-            exceed an amount to be determined in accordance
ing to criteria which are as close as possible to those        with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of the
used for the purposes of Council Directive 82/177/             said Regulation. Where a premium is less than this
EEC of 22 March 1982 on the statistical surveys to             amount, it shall be added to the ewe premium to be
be carried out by Member States on sheep and goat              paid in respect of the following marketing year in
stocks (2);                                                    the region or regions concerned.
Whereas, for reasons of efficient management of the
scheme, provision should be made to postpone pay-
ment of premiums to the following marketing year                                       Article 3
in cases where the unit amount is very small,
                                                               Regulation (EEC) No 2643/80 is hereby repealed.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                                        Article 4
                         Article 1
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the third
For the purposes of this Regulation:                           day following its publication in the Official Journal
                                                                of the European Communities.
 1. 'Sheepmeat producer' shall mean:
     (a) an individual farmer, whether a natural or a          It shall apply from the start of the marketing year
         legal person, who keeps at least 10 ewes              beginning in 1984.
(') OJ No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1.                            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
0 OJ No L 81, 27. 3. 1982, p. 35.                              directly applicable in all Member States.