CELEX: 31995R2012
Language: en
Date: 1995-08-18 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2012/95 of 18 August 1995 fixing the aid for cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year

No L 196/ 14       I ENl               Official Journal of the European Communities                                19 . 8 . 95
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2012/95
                                                      of 18 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 1 8,284 per 1 00 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 0,                                                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 (% 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 Q, 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
 1554/95, aid must be granted for unginned cotton                  rules of application have been adopted the amount of aid
 harvested in the Community when the world market                 will have to be replaced by an amount calculated in
                                                                  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
 1 995/96 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 75,570 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 57,286 per 100 kilograms for Greece.
Whereas, pursuant to Article 2 (3) and (4) of Council             2. However, the amount of the aid will be replaced
Regulation (EEC) No 1964/87 of 2 July 1987 adjusted the           with effect from 19 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 1995/96 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 19 August 1 995.
(') OJ  No  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ  No  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
0   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 .
n 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, 18 August 1995.
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                     Erkki LIIKANEN
                                                               Member of the Commission