12. 4. 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 91/19 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 906/91 of 11 April 1991 determining for the Member States the loss of income and the premium payable per ewe and per female goat for the 1990 marketing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3577/90 (3, and in particular Article 5 (6) thereof, Whereas Article 5 (1) and (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for the granting of a premium 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 is granted (});, as last amended by Regulatiocn (EEC) No 3519/86 () ; whereas Article 5 (8) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for the possibility of granting premiums to producers holding females of the ovine species of ‘certain mountain breeds other than eligible ewes, in certain areas; whereas those sheep and those areas are .defined in the Annex to Council Regulation (EEC) No 872/84 of 31 March 1984 laying down the general rules for the granting of premiums to sheepmeat producers (°), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1970/87 (¢); Whereas, pursuant to Article 5 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the Member States were authorized by Commis- sion Regulation (EEC) No 1847/90 (") to pay an initial advance and by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2758/90 (®) to pay a second advance to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers ; whereas those advances were paid during the 1990 marketing year in certain Member States ; whereas the balance to be paid to producers in those Member States should therefore be fixed ; ' Whereas, under Article 22 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the amount of the premium per ewe and per region is obtained transitionally for the 1990 marketing year by multiplying the loss of income referred to in para- graph 4 of that Article by a coefficient expressing for each () OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () OJ No L 353, 17. 12. 1990, p. 23. () OJ No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25. (% OJ No L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17. () OJ No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 40. (9 OJ No L 184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 23. () O] No L 168, 30. 6. 1990, p. 31. () OJ No L 264, 27. 9. 1990, p. S2. region the annual average production of lamb meat per ewe expressed per 100 kilograms carcase weight ; whereas the coefficient for 1990 has not yet been fixed in view of the lack of comprehensive Community statistics ; whereas, pending the fixing of that coefficient, it was agreed to use provisionally the coefficients for 1989, adjusted in accord- ance with the rules on transition ; whereas, for region 1, the loss of income must be reduced by the weighted average of the variable premiums actually granted and the foreseeable premiums for the remainder of the 1990 . marketing year, such average being obtained in accord- ance with Article 24 (4) of that Regulation; whereas Article 22 (5) of that Regulation also fixes for the 1990 marketing year the premium per female of the caprine species and per female of the ovine species other than eligible ewes at 80 % of the premium per ewe ; whereas those statistics are now available ; whereas the coefficient should therefore be fixed ; : Whereas, in accordance with Article 24 (8) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the losses of income in Great Britain on the one hand (impact of the non-deducted variable premium) and in Ireland and Northern Ireland on the other hand, and the coefficients expressing the annual average production of lamb meat per ewe are to be gradu- ally merged into a single income loss and single coeffi- cients in proportion to the actual dismantling of the vari- able slaughter premium during each marketing year; Whereas, in accordance with Article 4 (3) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3007/84 of 26 October 1984 laying down detailed rules for the application of the premium for producers of sheepmeat (%), as last amended Regulation (EEC) No 288/91 ("), the premium payable per eligible animal is only to be paid where the amount fixed per ewe is equal to or greater than ECU 1 ; whereas those provi- sions result in the premium payable in region 3 not being paid ; whereas those provisions are without prejudice to the application of Article 22 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89; Whereas, in accordance with Article 22 (6) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, for the 1990 marketing year where a premium per ewe is granted for region 2 on application by the parties concerned, a premium per ewe of an amount equal to the premium payable per ewe in region 2 may be granted in region 3 instead of the premium payable in that region where the recipients have shown, to the satisfaction of the competent authority, that lambs ! () OJ No L 283, 27. 10. 1984, p. 28. (% OJ No L 35, 7. 2. 1991, p. 12.