COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1394/97 of 18 July 1997 establishing projected regional reference amounts, and the value of the advance payments to be made to producers of soya beans, rape seed, colza seed and sunflower seed, for the 1997/98 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 922/97 (2), and in particular Article 12 thereof,

Whereas Article 5 (1) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 specifies that the Commission shall establish a projected regional reference amount for each region identified in a Member State's regionalization plan on the basis of a comparison between the cereals or oil seeds yields for that region and the Community's average cereal or oil seed yield;

Whereas Article 11 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 specifies that producers who apply for an oil seeds compensatory payment shall be entitled to an advance payment of no more than 50 % of the appropriate projected regional reference amount;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Joint Management Committee for Cereals, Oils and Fats and Dried Fodder,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1. A succinct explanation of the calculation of the projected regional reference amounts, as required by Article 5 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92, is given in Annex I.

2. The projected regional reference amounts for the 1997/98 marketing years shall be as given in Annex II.

Article 2

The advance payments to be made to producers of oil seeds under the terms of Article 11 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 shall, for the 1997/98 marketing year, be of a value equal to 50 % of the appropriate projected regional reference amount given in Annex II.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 July 1997.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 12.

(2) OJ No L 133, 24. 5. 1997, p. 1.

ANNEX I

A succinct explanation of the calculation of the projected regional reference amounts for producers of oil seeds in the 1997/98 marketing year

The projected regional reference amounts have been calculated in accordance with the provisions of Article 5 (1) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92.

In calculating these amounts the Commission has respected the information supplied by the Member States pursuant to Article 3 (2) of the same Regulation, and the choice of whether the comparison of yields is based on cereals or oil seeds pursuant to Article 5 (1) (c) of the same Regulation.

The projected regional reference amounts for the 1997/98 marketing year are given in Annex II.

ANNEX II

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