CELEX: 31998R1865
Language: en
Date: 1998-08-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1865/98 of 31 August 1998 determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid

1. 9. 98              EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                   L 242/3
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1865/98
                                                    of 31 August 1998
                  determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                       quotations; whereas these adjustments are specified in
                                                                  Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89;
                                                                  Whereas application of the above rules gives the world
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             market price for unginned cotton indicated hereunder;
Community,
                                                                  Whereas Article 5 (3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC)
                                                                  No 1554/95 stipulates that the advance payment rate for
                                                                  the aid is to be the guide price less the world market price
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in
                                                                  and less a further amount calculated by the formula
particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, as
                                                                  applicable when the guaranteed maximum quantity is
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95 (1),
                                                                  overun but with a 15 % increase in the estimate for
                                                                  unginned cotton production; whereas Commission Regu-
                                                                  lation (EC) No 1844/98 (6) determined estimated produc-
                                                                  tion for the 1998/99 marketing year; whereas application
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of            of these rules gives the advance payment rates for each
29 June 1995 (2) laying down general rules for the system         Member State indicated hereunder,
of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC) No
2169/81, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/
98 (3), and in particular Articles 3, 4 and 5 thereof,
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95
requires a world market price for unginned cotton to be
periodically determined from the world market price
determined for ginned cotton, using the historical rela-
tionship between the two prices as specified in Article 1                                    Article 1
(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3
May 1989 laying down rules for implementing the system
of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)         1. The world market price for unginned cotton as indi-
No 1664/98 (5); whereas if it cannot be determined in this        cated in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 is set at
way it is to be based on the last price determined;               ECU 33,073 per 100 kilograms.
                                                                  2. Advance payment of the aid as indicated in Article 5
                                                                  (3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 shall
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95                   be at the rate of:
requires the world market price for ginned cotton to be
determined for a product of specific characteristics using         ECU 37,510 per 100 kilograms in Spain,
the most favourable offers and quotations on the world
market of those considered representative of the real              ECU 36,447 per 100 kilograms in Greece,
market trend; whereas to this end an average is to be              ECU 73,227 per 100 kilograms in other Member
calculated of offers and quotations on one or more Euro-               States.
pean exchanges for a cif product to a North European
port from the supplier countries considered most
representative as regards international trade; whereas these
rules for determination of the world market price for
ginned cotton provide for adjustments to reflect differ-                                     Article 2
ences in product quality and the nature of offers and
(1) OJ  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.                                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 September
(2) OJ  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.                                1998.
(3) OJ  L 190, 4. 7. 1998, p. 4.
(4) OJ  L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23.
(5) OJ  L 211, 29. 7. 1998, p. 9.                                 (6) OJ L 240, 28. 8. 1998, p. 3.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States.
        Done at Brussels, 31 August 1998.
                                                                For the Commission
                                                                 Karel VAN MIERT
                                                              Member of the Commission