1.4.84 Official Journal of the European Communities No L90/35 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 871/84 of 31 March 1984 amending for the fourth time Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat and amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (%), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (?), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (%), Whereas Article 34 of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/ 80 (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1195/82 (*), provided that the Commission was to submit to the Council, before 1 October 1983, a report on the functioning of the common organ- ization of the market in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector; whereas examination of the report submitted by the Commission has indicated that the rules governing this sector should be amended; Whereas the four-year period referred to in Article 3 (4) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80, which was provided for at the beginning of the common organization of the market so that production and marketing structures in the various Member States could be gradually adjusted, expires at the end of the 1983/84 marketing year; whereas the fixing of a single reference price at a different level from the basic price is not justified; whereas no distinction should henceforth be made between the reference price and the basic price; Whereas a partial regrouping of the regions referred to in Article 3 (1) of the said Regulation would bring together regions where lamb production and consumption structures are very comparable; (") OJ No C62, 5. 3. 1984, p. 68. (*) Opinion delivered on 15 March 1984 (not yet published in the Official Journal). (®) Opinion delivered on 29 March 1984 (not yet published in the Official Journal). () OJ No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1. (*) OJ No L 140, 20. 5. 1982, p. 22. Whereas provision should be made for the possibility for Member States to make a payment on account in favour of producers of the less-favoured farming areas within the meaning of Directive 75/268/ EEC (*); whereas, to this end, provision should be made for an estimated loss in revenue at the beginning of the marketing year; Whereas, apart from the fact that for the reasons mentioned above no reference price will be fixed as from the marketing year beginning in 1984, it would seem appropriate to simplify the method of calcu- lating the premium for sheepmeat producers; whereas the loss of income suffered by producers in a given region should be calculated from the difference, if any, between the Community basic price and the arithmetic mean of the market prices recorded in the region concerned; whereas a coefficient representing the normal average annual level of lamb production in the region in question should be applied to the said loss of income; Whereas, to ensure more effective management and support of the market, provision should be made for the regionalization of private storage measures so that they are implemented in accordance with rules similar to those for intervention buying; whereas provision should also be made so that the amount of the aid granted may be regionally differentiated; Whereas, in view of the considerable expansion of intra-Community trade in certain sheepmeat preparations, the amount equivalent to the variable premium granted, as referred to in Article 9 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80, should be charged on the said preparations when they leave the region concerned and the definitions of the said preparation should be laid down, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 1 (¢) is replaced by the following: “(©) 16.02 B III b) 2 aa) 11: Other prepared or preserved meat or meat offal containing meat or offal of sheep or goats, other than those containing meat or offal of domestic swine or bovine animals, () OJ No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 8.