12. 6. 98 Official Journal of the European Communities L 167/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1213/98 of 11 June 1998 determining, for the 1998 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 organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1589/96 (3, and in particular Article 5(6) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 of 15 June 1992 concerning specific measures for the Canary Islands with regard to certain agricultural products (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2348/96 (¥, 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 5(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 prod- ucers 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 () OJ L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 25. () OJ L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13. () OJ L 320, 11. 12. 1996, p. 1. () OJ L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25. () OJ L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17. annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe producing these lambs expressed per 100 kg of carcase weight; whereas the coefficient for 1998 has not yet been fixed in view of the lack of full Community statistics; whereas, pending the fixing of that coefficient, a provi- sional coefficient should be used; whereas Article 5(3) of that Regulation also fixes the amount per ewe for produ- cers of light lambs and per female of the caprine species and at 80 % of the premium per ewe for producers 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 1526/96 (*), the advance payment is to be paid only if it is equal to or greater than ECU 1; Whereas the agricultural conversion rate has been frozen until 1 January 1999 for certain currencies by Council Regulation (EC) No 1527/95 (°); Whereas, under Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 ('), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 193/98 ('), 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 goatmeat; whereas, in view of the present uncertainty of the market situation in certain Member States, the Member States should be authorised, for the 1998 marketing year, to pay immediately an amount equal to 90 % of the aid; L 245, 1. 10. 1993, p. 99. L 190, 31. 7. 1996, p. 21. L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 1. L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17. L 20, 27. 1. 1998, p. 18.