1999/328/EC: Commission Decision of 7 May 1999 derogating, for the 1998/1999 marketing year, from certain provisions of Regulation (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)
18. 5. 1999 EN 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, 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 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 (1), 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 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1419/98 (3), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof, for (1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1201/ 89 of 3 May 1989 laying down rules implementing the system of aid for cotton (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1664/98 (5), 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 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- the start of supervised tures; whereas, 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; therefore, (2) Whereas in this the measures provided for Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Flax and Hemp, (1) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 45. (2) OJ L 148, 30. 6. 1995, p. 48. (3) OJ L 190, 4. 7. 1998, p. 4. (4) OJ L 123, 4. 5. 1989, p. 23. (5) OJ L 211, 29. 7. 1998, p. 9