Article 5
1. For the purposes of checking the aid applications for the 1989/90 marketing year, the control agency shall verify that the quantities placed into supervised storage in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1201/89 coincide with the quantities obtained by applying the yield recorded for the marketing year in question in the region concerned for unginned cotton of sound and fair merchantable quality to the areas which are the subject of aid applications. If necessary the yield shall be differentiated to take account of growing methods. 2. If the quantity placed into supervised storage in a ginning plant: (a) is 70 % or more of the quantity obtained by applying the yields referred to in paragraph 1, the competent agency shall grant the aid in respect of the area indicated in the declaration of areas sown, adjusted where necessary; (b) is less than 70 % of the quantity obtained by applying the yields referred to in paragraph 1, the competent agency shall grant the aid in respect of the area indicated in the declaration of areas sown, adjusted where necessary and multiplied by a coefficient obtained by dividing the quantities placed into supervised storage by the quantities obtained by applying the yield referred to in paragraph 1 reduced by 30 %; however, the aid shall be granted in respect of the area indicated in the declaration of areas sown, adjusted where necessary, if proof of harvest has been supplied to the satisfaction of the Member State on the basis of other information.