Commission Regulation (EC) No 1199/2001

of 19 June 2001

definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 2000 to 31 March 2001 for the 2000/01 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular paragraph 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1553/95(1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1554/95 of 29 June 1995 laying down the general rules for the system of aid for cotton and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2169/81(2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/98(3), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Under Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95, the world market price for unginned cotton is fixed periodically during the marketing year.

(2) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1183/2001(4) fixes actual production of unginned cotton, the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced and the increase in the aid for the 2000/01 marketing year.

(3) Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 of 3 May 1989 laying down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton(5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1624/1999(6), provides for the aid for unginned cotton applicable to each period for which a world market price has been determined to be fixed before 15 July.

(4) The aid for the 2000/01 marketing year should accordingly be fixed definitively at the levels indicated below,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The amounts of the aid for unginned cotton corresponding to the world prices fixed in Commission Regulations (EC) Nos 1857/2000(7), 1918/2000(8), 1991/2000(9), 2060/2000(10), 2248/2000(11), 2340/2000(12), 2430/2000(13), 2487/2000(14), 2558/2000(15), 2626/2000(16), 2694/2000(17), 2761/2000(18), 2799/2000(19), 2828/2000(20), 17/2001(21), 43/2001(22), 119/2001(23), 210/2001(24), 286/2001(25), 342/2001(26), 405/2001(27), 487/2001(28), 550/2001(29) and 570/2001(30) shall be as set out in the Annex hereto. Those amounts shall be fixed definitively from the entry into force of each of the Regulations concerned.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 19 June 2001.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 45.

(2) OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 48.

(3) OJ L 190, 4.7.1998, p. 4.

(4) OJ L 161, 16.6.2001, p. 21.

(5) OJ L 123, 4.5.1989, p. 23.

(6) OJ L 192, 24.7.1999, p. 39.

(7) OJ L 221, 1.9.2000, p. 6.

(8) OJ L 229, 9.9.2000, p. 27.

(9) OJ L 237, 21.9.2000, p. 43.

(10) OJ L 246, 30.9.2000, p. 8.

(11) OJ L 257, 11.10.2000, p. 19.

(12) OJ L 269, 21.10.2000, p. 32.

(13) OJ L 279, 1.11.2000, p. 26.

(14) OJ L 286, 11.11.2000, p. 35.

(15) OJ L 292, 21.11.2000, p. 28.

(16) OJ L 302, 1.12.2000, p. 26.

(17) OJ L 309, 9.12.2000, p. 10.

(18) OJ L 318, 16.12.2000, p. 29.

(19) OJ L 324, 21.12.2000, p. 31.

(20) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 9.

(21) OJ L 2, 5.1.2001, p. 19.

(22) OJ L 6, 11.1.2001, p. 8.

(23) OJ L 19, 20.1.2001, p. 20.

(24) OJ L 30, 1.2.2001, p. 36.

(25) OJ L 41, 10.2.2001, p. 28.

(26) OJ L 50, 21.2.2001, p. 5.

(27) OJ L 60, 1.3.2001, p. 14.

(28) OJ L 69, 10.3.2001, p. 13.

(29) OJ L 81, 21.3.2001, p. 28.

(30) OJ L 84, 23.3.2001, p. 21.

ANNEX

AID FOR UNGINNED COTTON

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