CELEX: 51986PC0670
Language: en
Date: 1986-11-24
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING FOR THE ELEVENTH TIME REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1837/80 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN SHEEP AND GOATMEAT ( MODULATION OF THE EWE PREMIUM )

16.12.86                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                No C 323/3
                                                               II
                                                       (Prepa ratory A cts)
                                                 COMMISSION
             Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending for the 11th time Regulation (EEC)
             No 1837/80 on the common organization of the market in sheep and goatmeat (Modulation of
                                                      the ewe premium)
                                                      COM(86)      670final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 24 November 1986)
                                                        (86/C 323/03)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                                          Article 1
Economic Community,
                                                                    The following paragraph 3 a is added to Article 5 of
                                                                    Regulation (EEC) N o 1837/80:
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                        '3. (a)     Insofar as is necessary to offset major
                                                                        seasonal variations in the costs of producing
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                       sheepmeat, it may be decided, in accordance with the
liament,                                                                procedure provided for in Article 26, in the regions
                                                                        where the seasonal variation in production costs
                                                                        corresponds to seasonally adjusted basic prices, to
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                        effect a seasonal modulation of the premium payable
Social Committee,
                                                                        per ewe. This modulation must be calculated in such
                                                                        a way, for each beneficiary:
Whereas production costs differ appreciably in certain                  — that it reflects the difference between the
regions of the Community, for the production of lamb in                     seasonally-adjusted basic price and the market
the various areas making up this region; whereas the                        price, referred to in Article 4, representative for
seasonal variation in these production costs does not                       each Member State concerned,
correspond to the seasonal variation in market prices in
that region; whereas provision should be made, for this                 — it allows for seasonal changes in sales of lambs.
region as well, for modulation of the premium for the                   However, total expenditure for each marketing year
producers of sheepmeat referred to in Article 5 of                      under this provision may not exceed such expenditure
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 (*), as last                        as is entailed by the application of paragraph 3.
amended by Regulation (EEC) N o . ..;                                   Also, only 70 % of the premium payable per ewe
                                                                        may be modulated; however, where the provisions of
Whereas this modulation should, for each beneficiary,                   paragraph 4 apply, only the amount corresponding to
take account:                                                           the balance of the premium paid in the less-favoured
                                                                        agricultural areas may be modulated.'
— of the difference each week between the seasonally-
    adjusted price referred to in Article 3 (3) of Regu-                                       Article 2
    lation (EEC) No 1837/80 and the market price
    recorded for each region in accordance with the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    provisions of Article 4 of the same Regulation,                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
— of seasonal changes in lamb sales,
                                                                    It shall apply for the first time to the premiums granted
                                                                    for the 1987 marketing year.
                                                                    This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
(l) OJNoL183, 16.7. 1980, p. 1.                                     directly applicable in all Member States.