1. The aid provided for in Article 1 may not exceed:
(a) in the case of the products referred to in Article 1 (a), (b) and (d), the fall in prices recorded in Austria or Finland:
- at the wholesale stage or any other stage constituting the first stage of marketing of the product in question, and
- for a period:
- considered by those States as representative of the effects of the application of the Treaty of Accession on prices, and
- not extending beyond the storage life of the product after the date of accession;
(b) in the case of products referred to in Article 1 (c) and those processed from the products listed in Annex II as referred to in Article 1 (d), the maximum laid down in (a) for the products from which they are derived, multiplied by:
- a coefficient reflecting value in the case of meat,
- a processing coefficient reflecting the impact of the products from which they are derived in the case of other product groups.
The coefficients provided for in (b) shall be determined by the Member State in question.
2. The maximum provided for in paragraph 1 (a) may be replaced:
- in the case of products subject, prior to accession, in the Community and in Austria or Finland, to a price support system by the difference between the prices as subsidized in December 1994 in the abovementioned Member States and the prices as subsidized by the Community in January 1995,
- in the case of products subject, prior to accession, to a price support system in Austria or Finland only, by the difference between the prices as subsidized in those Member States in December 1994 and the prices applying in those Member States at the marketing stage referred to in the first indent of paragraph 1 (a) at a time in 1995 which they consider representative for the purposes of calculating the fall in prices as a result of the application of the Treaty of Accession,
- in the case of products which, prior to accession, were subject to a price support system in the Community but not in Austria or Finland, by the difference between the prices recorded in these Member States at the marketing stage referred to in the first indent of paragraph 1 (a) at a time in 1994 which they consider representative for the purposes of calculating the fall in prices as a result of the application of the Treaty of Accession and the prices as subsidized in the Community in January 1995.
3. The maximums provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not preclude the right of the Member State in question to increase the aid by interest at a rate equal at most to the normal rate on the market in that Member State for the period between 1 January 1995 and the date of payment.
