COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3864/91 of 16 December 1991 fixing, for the 1992 fishing year, the withdrawal and selling prices for fishery products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3571/90 (2), and in particular Article 12 (3) thereof,
Whereas Article 12 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 provides that the Community withdrawal and selling prices for each of the products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) are to be fixed by applying the conversion factor for the product category concerned to an amount equal to at least 70 % but not more than 90 % of the relevant guide price;
Whereas changes in production and marketing structures in the Community make it necessary to alter the basis for calculating the withdrawal and the sale prices in the Community as compared with those of the preceding fishing year;
Whereas Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 provides that the withdrawal price may be multiplied by conversion factors in landing areas which are very distant from main centres of consumption in the Community;
Whereas, with regard to sardines of the species Sardina pilchardus, special conditions have been adopted in the Act of Accession in order to ensure a progressive alignment of prices of sardines from the Atlantic on price levels of sardines from the Mediterranean; whereas the production structure and access to the market of Atlantic sardines are different to those for Mediterranean sardines and meet the special needs of the processing industry; whereas, with a view to the smooth application of the alignment of prices which does not artificially disturb market supply conditions, it is necessary to fix a special adaptation coefficient for size 3 of this product in the landing areas concerned in Spain and Portugal;
Whereas the guide prices for the 1992 fishing year were fixed for all the products in question by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3569/91 (3);
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery Products,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The percentages of the guide price referred to in Article 12 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 which are used as a basis for calculating the Community withdrawal and selling prices shall be as shown in Annex I for the products concerned.
Article 2
The conversion factors referred to in Article 12 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 which are used for calculating the Community withdrawal and selling prices for the products listed in Annex I (A), (D) and (E) of the abovementioned Regulation, shall be as shown in Annex II.
Article 3
The Community withdrawal and selling prices as referred to in Article 12 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 applicable for the 1992 fishing year and the products to which they refer, shall be as shown in Annex III.
Article 4
The withdrawal and selling prices, as referred to in Article 12 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 and applicable for the 1992 fishing year in the landing areas which are very distant from the main centres of consumption in the Community, and the products to which those prices relate, shall be as shown in Annex IV.
Article 5
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1992. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 16 December 1991.