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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 859/83

of 12 April 1983

fixing for the 1983 marketing year the reference prices for courgettes and amending Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 on the Common Customs Tariff

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN

COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1738/82 (2), and in particular Article 27 (1) thereof,

Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing year;

Whereas courgettes are produced in such quantities in the Community that reference prices should be fixed for them;

Whereas courgettes harvested during a given crop year are marketed from January to December; whereas the quantities harvested from 1 January to 20 April and in October, November and December are so small that there is no need to fix reference prices for these periods; whereas reference prices should be fixed only for the period 21 April up to and including 30 September;

Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are to be fixed on the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member State plus an amount representing the costs of transporting Community products from the production areas to Community marketing centres; whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and vegetable sector must also be taken into account;

Whereas, to take seasonal price variations into account, the marketing year should be divided into several periods and a reference price fixed for each of these periods;

Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the average of the prices recorded on the representative market or markets situated in the production areas where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a home-grown product with defined commercial characteristics, being a product or variety representing a substantial proportion of the production marketed over the year or over part thereof and satisfying specified requirements as regards market preparation; whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each representative market is being calculated, prices which could be considered excessively high or excessively low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that market are to be disregarded;

Whereas Article 22a of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 provides that the tariff nomenclature resulting from the application of this Regulation is to be repeated in the Common Customs Tariff and consequently an amendment should be made to the Common Customs Tariff laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 604/83 (4), distinguishing from other vegetables, courgettes and aubergines submitted to the reference price system;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the 1983 marketing year the reference prices for courgettes falling within subheading 07.01 T of the Common Customs Tariff, expressed in ECU per 100 kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows:

April (21 to 30) 60,67

May 54,32

June 37,45

July 33,90

August 38,18

September 42,12

Article 2

Regulation (EEC) No 950/68 is hereby amended in accordance with the Annex.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

Article 2 shall apply from 1 July 1983.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 April 1983.

For the Commission

Poul DALSAGER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 190, 1. 7. 1982, p. 7.

(3) OJ No L 172, 22. 7. 1968, p. 1.

(4) OJ No L 72, 18. 3. 1983, p. 3.

ANNEX

Subheading 07.01 T of the Common Customs Tariff is hereby replaced by the following text:

1.2.3,4 // // // // 'Heading No // Description // Rate of duty 1.2.3.4 // // // Autonomous % or levy (L) // Conventional % // // // // // 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // // // // // // // // // 07.01 // Vegetables, fresh or chilled: // // // // . . . . . . // // // // . . . . . . // // // // T. Other: // // // // I. Courgettes // 16 (a) // - // // II. Aubergines // 16 (a) // - // // III. Other // 16 // -' // // // //