COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES 
Brussels, 24.05.1996 
COM(96) 246 final 
Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, 
peaches, apricots, nectarines, lemons and tomatoes 
for June 1996 
(presented by the Commission) 

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 
Subject: Draft Council Regulation fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, 
peaches, nectarines, apricots, lemons and tomatoes for June 1996 
Under Article 16(1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, a basic price and a buying-in 
price must be fixed for each of the products listed in Annex II to that Regulation for each 
marketing year. Only slack marketing periods at the beginning and at the end of the marketing 
year are to be disregarded. 
The Council has not yet, however, decided on the basic and buying-in prices for the products 
in question for the 1996/97 marketing year and interim protective measures were adopted by 
the Commission by means of Regulation (EC) No ..../96 to fix the prices for cauliflowers for 
the period 1 to 31 May 1996. 
In order to ensure continuity of prices and the possibility of intervention measures, pending 
a decision for the 1996/97 marketing year, the basic price and buying-in prices for 
cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines, apricots, lemons and tomatoes should be fixed for the period 
1 to 30 June 1996. 
The financial consequences were taken into consideration in January in Volume II of the 
1996/97 price package. 
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Proposal for a 
COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) 
fixing the basic and buying-in prices for cauliflowers, 
peaches, apricots, nectarines, lemons and tomatoes 
for June 1996 
•V THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
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 ('), and in particular 
Article 16 (1) thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Whereas, in accordance with Article 16 (1) of Regulation 
(EEC) No 1035/72, a basic price and a buying-in price 
must be fixed for each product in Annex II to that Regu­
lation for each marketing year ; whereas the products 
harvested during a given crop year are marketed 
from January to December of each year in the case of 
tomatoes, from May to August of each year in the case of 
apricots, from May to October of each year in the case oi 
peaches and nectarines, from May to April of the 
following year in the case of cauliflowers and from June 
to May of the following year in the case of lemons ; 
whereas, however, pursuant to the third subparagraph of 
Article 16 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, no basic 
or buying-in price need be fixed for the slack marketing 
periods at the beginning and end of the marketing year ; 
Whereas, in order to ensure the continuity of prices for 
cauliflowers and the possibility of intervention as regards 
apricots, peaches and nectarines from 1 June 199© and 
tomatoes from 11 June 199ft the basic and buying-in 
prices for the products must be fixed for the period 1 to 
30 June 199^ pending a decision regarding the \99$/9f' 
marketing year, apricots and tomatoes, expressed in ecus per 100 kilo­
grams net, shall be as follows : 
Cauliflowers 
Peaches 
Nectarines 
Lemons 
Apricots 
Tomatoes : 
(11 to 20 June) 
(21 to 30 June) Buying-in 
price 
30,02 
33,81 
25,78 
2809 
12^0 
11,98 
These prices refer respectively to : 
— packed trimmed cauliflowers of quality class -I, 
— packed peaches of the Amsden, Cardinal, Charles 
Ingouf, Dixired, Jeronimo, J. H. Hale, Merril Gemfree, 
Michelini, Red Haven, San Lorenzo, Springcrest and 
Springtime varieties of quality class I, size 61-67 mm, 
— packed nectarines of the Armking, Crimsongold, Early 
Sun Grand, Fantasia, Independence, May Grand, 
Nectared, Snow Queen and Stark Red Gold varieties 
of quality class I, size 61-67 mm, 
— packed lemons of quality class I, size 53-62 mm, 
— packed apricots of quality class I of a size over 30 mm, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : 
Article 1 — packed 'round' and 'ribbed' tomatoes of quality class I, 
size 57-67 mm. 
Those prices do not include the cost of the packaging in 
which the product is presented. 
For the period 1 to 30 June 1995, the basic and buying-in 
prices for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines, lemons, Article 2 
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by 
the 1994 Act of Accession and by Regulation (EQ No 
3290/94 (OJ No L 349, 31. 12. 1994, p. 105). This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 199/ 
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^Regulation shall be binding i„ its entirety and directly applicable in all Member 
Done at Brussels, 
i For the Council 
The President 
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