18.5.1999 Official Journal of the European Communities L 124/35 COMMISSION DECISION of 7 May 1999 derogating, for the 1998/1999 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regula- tion (EEC) No 1201/89 as regards aid applications and applications for supervised storage of unginned cotton originating in certain Greek prefectures (notified under document number C(1999) 1179) (Only the Greek text is authentic) (1999/328/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Protocol No 4 on cotton annexed to the Act of Accession of Greece, as last amended by Regula- tion (EC) No 1553/95 (), 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 (?), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/98 (°), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof, (1)  Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/ 89 of 3 May 1989 laying down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1664/98 (°), lays down 31 March as the time limit for lodging applications for supervised storage of unginned cotton but allows the Member State to set a later time limit under certain conditions; whereas for the 1998/1999 marketing year Greece used that provision by setting the time limit for lodging applications for supervised storage at 31 January 1999; whereas, as a result of exceptional weather conditions, it proved impossible to harvest the unginned cotton until the beginning of March 1999 in certain Greek prefec- tures; whereas, therefore, the start of supervised storage and the lodging of the corresponding aid applications should be accepted without penalty for the unginned cotton originating in those prefec- tures up to a date allowing for the other time limits in the rules to be complied with; (2)  Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Flax and Hemp, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 1.  Notwithstanding Article 5(3), Article 7(1), the first subparagraph of Article 9(2) and Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89, the following conditions shall apply for the 1998/1999 marketing year to unginned cotton harvested in the Greek prefectures indicated in para- graph 2: (a) aid applications lodged by 28 April at the latest may be accepted; (b) if the aid applications are lodged between 1 April and 28 April, the aid granted shall be that valid on the previous 31 March; (c) applications for supervised storage lodged by 28 April at the latest may be accepted; (d) the quantity of ginned cotton produced from the quantity of unginned cotton under supervised storage shall be notified before 5 May. 2. The Greek prefectures referred to in paragraph 1 are: Drame, Serres and Evros. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Hellenic Republic. Done at Brussels, 7 May 1999. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 45. OJ L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 48. OJ L 190, 4.7.1998, p. 4. OJ L 123, 4.5.1989, p. 23. OJ L 211, 29.7.1998, p. 9.