No L 172/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 7.7. 94 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1640/54 of 6 July 1994 determining for the Member States, for the 1993 marketing year, the estimated loss of income and the estimated level of the premium payable per ewe and per female goat and fixing the first advance payment for this premium and an advance payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less favoured areas of the Community THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat(!), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1096/94 (3), and in parti- cular Article § (6) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 of 15 June 1992 concemning specific measures for the Canary Islands with regard to certain agricultural products (°), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1974/93 (%) and in particular Article 13 thereof, Whereas Article 5 (1) and (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for the grant of a premium to compen- sate for any loss of income sustained by producers of sheepmeat and, in certain areas, of goatmeat; whereas those areas are defined in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1065/86 of 11 April 1986 determining the mountain areas in which the premium for goatmeat is granted (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3519/86 (%) ; Whereas, pursuant to Article § (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and to enable an advance payment to be made to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers, the foreseeable loss of income should be estimated in the light of the foreseeable trend in market prices; Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the amount of the premium per ewe for produ- cers of heavy lambs is obtained by multiplying the loss of income referred to in the second subparagraph of para- graph 1 of that Article by a coefficient expressing the annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe producing these lambs expressed per 100 kilograms of carcase weight ; whereas the coefficient for 1994 has not () OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () O No L 121, 12. 5. 1994, p. 9. () OJ No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13. () OJ No L 180, 23. 7. 1993, p. 26. () OJ No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25. () OJ No L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17. yet been fixed in view of the lack of full Community statistics ; whereas, pending the fixing of that coefficient, a provisional coefficient should be used ; whereas Article 5 (2) of that Regulation also fixes the amount per ewe for producers of light lambs and per female of the caprine species and at 80 % of the premium per ewe for produ- cers of heavy lambs; Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the premium must be reduced by the impact on the basic price of the coefficient provided for in para- graph 2 of that Article ; whereas that coefficient is fixed by Article 8 (4) at 7% ; Whereas, in accordance with Article 5 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the half-yearly advance payment is fixed at 30 % of the expected premium; whereas, in accordance with Article 4 (3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2700/93 ("), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 279/94 (%), the advance payment is to be paid only if it is equal to or greater than ECU 1; Whereas, under Council Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 of 14 May 1990 (°), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 363/93 (%), the Council instituted specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community ; whereas it lays down that the aid is to be granted under the same conditions as those for the grant of the premium for producers of sheepmeat and goat- meat ; whereas, as a result, provision should be made for the limits and the rates of payment laid down in Article § (7) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 to apply equally to this specific aid ; Whereas, in view of the expected diffi- cult market situation in certain Member States during the second half of 1994, the Member States should be autho- rized, for the 1994 marketing year, to pay immediately an amount equal to 90 % of the aid; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides for the application of specific measures relating to agricultural production in the Canary Islands; whereas those measures entail the grant of a supplement to the ewe () OJ No L 245, 1. 10. 1993, p. 95. () O] No L 37, 9. 2. 1994, p. 1. () OJ No L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17. (%) OJ No L 42, 19. 2. 1993, p. 1.