CELEX: 31998R1954
Language: en
Date: 1998-09-14
Title: Commission Regulation (EC) No 1954/98 of 14 September 1998 determining the world market price for unginned cotton and the rate for the aid

15. 9. 98             EN               Official Journal of the European Communities                                  L 253/17
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1954/98
                                                  of 14 September 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,                                                        with effect from 12 September 1998;
                                                                  Whereas Article 5 (3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC)
                                                                  No 1554/95 stipulates that the advance payment rate for
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in           the aid is to be the guide price less the world market price
particular paragraphs 3 and 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, as        and less a further amount calculated by the formula
last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95 (1),           applicable when the guaranteed maximum quantity is
                                                                  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-                                     Article 1
tionship between the two prices as specified in Article 1
(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3                1. The world market price for unginned cotton as indi-
May 1989 laying down rules for implementing the system            cated in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 is set at
of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)         ECU 29,456 per 100 kilograms.
No 1664/98 (5); whereas if it cannot be determined in this
way it is to be based on the last price determined;
                                                                  2. Advance payment of the aid as indicated in Article 5
                                                                  (3a), first sentence, of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 shall
                                                                  be at the rate of:
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95                    ECU 41,127 per 100 kilograms in Spain,
requires the world market price for ginned cotton to be
determined for a product of specific characteristics using         ECU 40,064 per 100 kilograms in Greece,
the most favourable offers and quotations on the world
                                                                   ECU 76,844 per 100 kilograms in other Member
market of those considered representative of the real
                                                                       States.
market trend; whereas to this end an average is to be
calculated of offers and quotations on one or more Euro-
pean exchanges for a cif product to a North European
port from the supplier countries considered most
representative as regards international trade; whereas these                                 Article 2
rules for determination of the world market price for
ginned cotton provide for adjustments to reflect differ-          This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 September
ences in product quality and the nature of offers and             1998.
(1) OJ  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45.
(2) OJ  L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48.                                It shall apply with effect from 12 September 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, 14 September 1998.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                    Franz FISCHLER
                                                               Member of the Commission