No L 27/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 3.2.96 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 208/96 of 2 February 1996 determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per female goat in the Member States and the payment of the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community for the 1995 marketing year 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 1265/95 (%), and in par- ticular Article 5 (6) thereof, Having regard to Council 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 2537/95 (%), and in particular Article 13 thereof, Whereas Article 5 (1) and (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for a premium to be granted to compensate 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 producers is granted (), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3519/86 (%); Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the Member States were authorized by Commis- sion Regulation (EC) No 1443/95() to pay an initial advance and by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1506/95 (%) to pay a second advance to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers ; whereas the definitive premiums to be paid in respect of the 1995 marketing year must thus be fixed; Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the premium payable to producers of heavy lambs in repect of the 1995 marketing year is obtained by multiplying the loss of income by a coefficient expressing the annual average production of heavy lamb meat per ewe producing such lambs, expressed in terms of 100 kilograms carcase weight; whereas, in accordance with the abovementioned Regulation, the premium per ewe for producers of lights lambs and per female goat for the () OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () OF No L 123, 3. 6. 1995, p. 1. () O] No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13. () O] No L 260, 31. 10. 1995, p. 10. % O] No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25. ( O] No L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17. () O] No L 143, 27. 6. 1995, p. 31. ( OJ No L 147, 30. 6. 1995, p. 22. 1995 marketing year should be 80 % of the premium 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 basis price of the coefficient provided for in Article 8 (2) of that Regulation ; whereas that coefficient was fixed at 7 % by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2069/92 () amending Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 ; Whereas it is opportune to foresee that the aid provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 1323/90 of 14 May 1990 instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community ('), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 40/96 ('), or the balance of this aid, resulting from the application of Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1443/95, should be granted before a certain date and under what conditions ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 provides for the application from 1 July 1992 of specific measures with regard to agricultural production in the Canary Islands; whereas those measures involve the granting of a supple- ment to the premium payable to producers of light lambs and female goats on the same terms as those laid down for the granting of the premium provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 ; whereas those terms provided for Spain to be authorized to pay the supple- ment to the premium ; Whereas the agricultural conversion rate has been frozen until 1 January 1999 for certain currencies by Council Regulation (EC) No 1527/95 ('); Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sheep and Goats, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 It is hereby noted that the difference between the basic price less the impact of the coefficient provided for in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 and the Community market price during the 1995 marketing year was ECU 155,131 per 100 kilograms. ) OJ No L 215, 30. 7. 1992, p. 59. (%) OJ No L 132, 23. 5. 1990, p. 17. (") OJ No L 10, 13. 1. 1996, p. 6. (%) OJ No L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 1.