L 149/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 16.6.1999 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1235/1999 of 15 June 1999 definitively fixing the aid for unginned cotton from 1 September 1998 to 31 March 1999 for the 1998/99 marketing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to the Act of Accession of Greece, and in particular paragraph 10 of Protocol 4 on cotton, as last amended by Council Regulation (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) 1419/98 (), and in particular Article 5(1) thereof, 5 Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1554/95, the world market price for unginned cotton is fixed periodically during the marketing year; Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/1999 () fixes actual production of unginned cotton and the amount by which the guide price is to be reduced in each Member State for the 1998/99 marketing year; Whereas Article 5(1) of 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 (¢), provides for the aid on unginned cotton applicable to each period for which a world market price has been determined to be fixed before 15 July; Whereas Article 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on certain provisions relating to the introduction of the euro (") provides for every reference in a legal instrument to the ecu to be replaced by a reference to the euro at a rate of one euro to one ecu as from 1 January 1999; Whereas the aid for the 1998/99 marketing year should accordingly be fixed definitively, J L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 45. J L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 48. L 190, 4.7.1998, p. 4. page 26 of this Official Journal. L 123, 4.5.1989, p. 23. L 211, 29.7.1998, p. 9. L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1.