CELEX: 31995R1899
Language: en
Date: 1995-07-31 00:00:00
Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1899/95 of 31 July 1995 fixing the aid for cotton for the 1995/96 marketing year

1 . 8 . 95           I EN I              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 181 / 13
                                         COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1899/95
                                                           of 31 July 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 0,                                                   market price of unginned cotton which will apply to the
                                                                       1 995/96 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
 Whereas pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No                  1583/95 (8); whereas, when the abovementioned detailed
 1 554/95, 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
 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 74,855 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 56,571 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 1st 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 1 August 1995.
(')  OJ   No L 148 , 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
 2)  OJ   No L 148,  30. 6. 1995, p. 48.
(3)  OJ   No L 123,  4. 5. 1989, p. 23.                              (6) OJ No L 211 , 31 . 7. 1981 , p. 2.
0    OJ   No L 185,  28. 7. 1993, p. 19.                             0 OJ No L 121 , 1 . 6. 1995, p. 21 .
 J)  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, 31 July 1995.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                   Hans VAN DEN BROEK
                                                                 Member of the Commission