No L 351/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 2.12. 89 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3618/89 of 1 December 1989 on the application of the guarantee limitation arrangements for sheepmeat and goatmeat 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 ('), and. in particular Article 8 (3) thereof, Whereas  Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 - introduces arrangements for the limitation of the guarantee .applicable for each marketing year; whereas Article 25 (1) and (3) of that.Regulation. provides that where the:United Kingdom applies the-variable premium arrangements transitionally, the guarantee limitation arrangements are to apply separately in Great Britain on the one hand and in the other regions as a whole on the other hand; whereas, however, Article 25 (4) of that Regulation provides that the reductions in the basic price in respect of Great Britain on the one hand and the rest of the Community on the other are to be gradually merged into a single reduction in proportion to the actual dismantling of - the variable premium- during each marketing year; Whereas Commission ‘Regulation (EEC) No 1310/88 (3 . lays down the detailed rules for the application of these arrangements ; Whereas for the 1990 marketing year estimated ewe - numbers exceed the maximum - guaranteed level and result in the fixing of a reduction coefficient ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Sheep and- Goats, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 For the 1990 marketing year: (a) the coefficient referred to in the first indent of Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 shall be as follows : - — Great Britain : 12,0, — rest of the Community: 7,0, (b) in view of the alignment provided for in Article 25(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, the coefficient actually applicable shall be as follows: — Great Britain: 11,0, — rest of the Community: 7,25; (c) the weekly amounts of the guide level shall be as set out in the Annex in accordance with Article 25 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89. Article 2 This Regulation shall.enter into force on 1 January-1990. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in. all Member States. Done at Brussels, 1 December 1989. () OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. () OJ No L 122, 12. 5. 1988, p. 69. For the Commission Ray MAC SHARRY Member of the Commission