23.5.90 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 132/17 COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 1323/90 - of 14 May 1990 instituting specific aid for sheep and goat farming in certain less-favoured areas of the Community THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic -Community, and in particular Article - 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1), Having regard to the opinion - of - the European- Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas Article 8 of Council Regulation (EEC)No 3013/89 of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of the- market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (%) provides- for measures to reduce the ewe premium in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector. where ewe numbers exceed a certain ceiling; whereas that reduction is likely to-have unfaveurable consequences in less-favoured areas within the meaning of Council Directive 75/268/EEC of 28 April 1975 on mountain and hill. farming and - farming in certain less-favoured areas (%), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 797/85 (¢), where there are practically no alternatives to sheepmeat production; whereas, in accordance with the measures provided for by the Commission in its report on the future of rural society, provision should therefore be made for compensation in the form of flat-rate aid for those areas; whereas this Regulation should apply from the 1991 marketing year in view of the reduction in the foreseeable ewe premium for that marketing year, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 1.  Inless-favoured areas within the meaning of Article 3 (3), (4) and (5) of Directive 75/268/EEC, the unit amounts of premiums to producers of sheepmeat and goatmeat, calculated in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, shall be supplemented by specific aid in respect of rural society measures of a unit amount of: ~ ECU 4 per ewe for the producers referred to in Article 5 (2) and (4) of that Regulation, — ECU 2,8 per ewe for producers referred to in Article § (3) of that Regulation,- — ECU 2,8 per -she-goat for producers referred to in Article 5 (5) of that Regulation, — ECU 2,8 per female of the ovine species where the second subparagraph of Article 5 (8) of that Regulation is applied, — ECU 4 per ewe and ECU 3,2 per she-goat where Article 22 (6) of that Regulation-is applied; in this event the aid shall be confined to those animals fulfilling the conditions laid down in that provision. 2.  The specific aid provided for in paragraph 1 shall be granted under the same conditions as those laid down for the grant of the premium to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of -the European Communities. It shall apply from the beginning of the 1991 marketing year. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety -and. directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 14 May 1990. (1) OJ No C 49, 28. 2. 1990, p. 60.. (2) OJ No C 96, 17. 4. 1990.- (?) OJ No C 112, 7. 5. 1990, p. 34. (*) OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1. (5) O] No L 128, 19. 5. 1975, p. 1. (s) O] No L 93, 30. 3. 1985, p. 1. For the Council The President D. J. OMALLEY