No L 54/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 5.3.93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 502/93 of 4 March 1993 determining the loss of income and the premiums applicable per ewe and per female goat in the Member States and the specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community for the 1992 marketing 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 last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 363/93 (3, and in parti- cular 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 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3714/92 (%), 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 Article 5 (8) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for the possibility of premiums being granted to producers holding females of the ovine species of certain mountain breeds other than eligible ewes in certain areas ; whereas those ewes 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 produ- cers(’), 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 Regu- lation (EEC) No 1830/92 (°) to pay an initial advance and by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3249/92 (') to pay a () OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () OJ No L 42,.19. 2. 1993, p. 1. () O] No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 13. () O No L 378, 23. 12. 1992, p. 23. ) O] No L 97, 12. 4. 1986, p. 25. 9 OJ No L 325, 20. 11. 1986, p. 17. ) O No L 90, 1. 4. 1984, p. 40. () O] No L 184, 3. 7. 1987, p. 23. () OJ No L 185, 4. 7. 1992, p. 22. (® OJ No L 324, 9. 11. 1992, p. 14. second advance to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers; whereas the definitive premiums to be paid in respect of the 1992 marketing year must thus be fixed; Whereas Article 23 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 provides for premiums to be paid per ewe and per region ; whereas the amount, payable to producers of heavy lambs in respect of the 1992 marketing year is obtained by multiplying the loss of income by a coefficient expressing the annual average production of heavy lambmeat per ewe producing such lambs, expressed in terms of 100 kg carcase weight, per region ; whereas, in accordance with the abovementioned Regulation, the premium per ewe for producers of light lambs and per female goat for the 1992 marketing year should be 80 % of the premium for producers of heavy lambs; whereas the amount for females of the ovine species other than eligible ewes should be 70 % of the abovementioned premium ; Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 363/93 extends the period of application of the transitional arrangements provided for in Article 24 (7) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 for Ireland and Northern Ireland despite the fact that the United Kingdom has abolished the variable slaughter premium ; whereas the premium payable per ewe applying in that area should therefore be determined; Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the premium must be reduced by the impact on the basic price of the coefficient provided for in Article 8 (2) of that Regulation ; whereas that coefficient was fixed provisionally by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1829/92 of 3 July 1992 on the application of the guarantee limitation arrangements for sheepmeat and goatmeat for the 1992 marketing year ('!); whereas the lack of definitive statistics for the 1992 marketing year means that the coefficient cannot be corrected at present ; whereas a correction will be made, where applicable, in the calculation of the premium for the 1993 marketing year in accordance with the second indent of Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89; 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; (") OJ No L 185, 4. 7. 1992, p. 21.