CELEX: 51988PC0084(09)
Language: en
Date: 1988-02-27
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) AMENDING REGULATION ( EEC ) NO 1837/80 ON THE COMMON ORGANIZATION OF THE MARKET IN SHEEPMEAT AND GOATMEAT

No C 84/32                            Official Journal of the European Communities                                    31. 3. 88
                Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 on the
                              common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat
                                                      COM(88) 84 final
                           (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 25 February 1988)
                                                        (88/C 84/19)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                             2.   For each marketing year:
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               — if the estimate of ewe numbers for the marketing
Economic Community, and in particular Articles 42 and 43                 year in question exceeds the maximum guaranteed
thereof,                                                                 level for that year, the premium provided for in
                                                                         Article 5 shall be reduced for both ewes and she-
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                         goats by the impact on the basic price of a coefficient
In cooperation with the European Parliament,                             representing a reduction of 1 % for each 1 % by
                                                                         which the maximum guaranteed level is exceeded,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee,                                                          — where the mechanism provided for in the preceding
                                                                         indent, applied to the actual ewe numbers recorded
Whereas the common organization of the market in                         for the preceding marketing year, leads to a premium
sheepmeat and goatmeat provides for certain measures in                  different from that fixed, the estimate of numbers for
the form of premiums and intervention prices the purpose                 the marketing year following that in which numbers
of which is to ensure that producers receive a fair income;              were recorded shall be adjusted to take account of
whereas, however, in view of the existing potential for                  that situation.
disposal on the Community market and of the latter's
undertakings in GATT, production of sheepmeat and                    3. Should paragraph 2 be applied, the intervention
goatmeat should not be encouraged once numbers exceed a              price provided for in Article 7(2) and the 'guide level'
level determined in the light of the market situation;               referred to in Article 9 used for calculating the variable
whereas, to that end, provision should be made for a                 premium shall be reduced by the same amount as that by
reduction in the guarantee provided for by the measures in           which the basic price is reduced pursuant to the first
question; whereas, however, regional differences in the              subparagraph of paragraph 2.
support arrangements provided for by the rules in force
may lead to encouragement of production in different ways            4. Should the United Kingdom apply Article 9, the
according to those regional differences; whereas this                provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply
measure should therefore be applied separately in region 5           separately to region 5 on the one hand and to all the
should the United Kingdom decide to apply the variable               other regions on the other. To that end the figure fixed
premium arrangement there;                                           in paragraph 1 shall be broken down as follows:
                                                                    — region 5: 18 million,
Whereas the Council will have to review the stabilization
mechanism, including the maximum guaranteed level, in                — other regions: 44 million.
connection with the adjustment of the market organization
both internally and externally,                                      5. Detailed rules for the application of this Article,
                                                                     and in particular the arrangements applicable to the
                                                                     1988 marketing year, to which this Article shall apply
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                                                     from 4 April 1988, and the coefficient and the amounts
                                                                     referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 shall be adopted in
                         Article 1                                   accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26.'
The following Article 9a is added to Regulation (EEC) No
1837/80:                                                                                    Article 2
    'Article 9a                                                  This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
                                                                 following its publication in the Official Journal of the
    1. Pending an adjustment to the common organiza-             European Communities.
    tion of the market both internally and externally, a
    maximum guaranteed level for ewe numbers is hereby           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly
    fixed at 62 million head.                                    applicable in all Member States.