Commission Regulation (EC) No 877/2004 of 29 April 2004 laying down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards notification of the prices recorded on the markets for certain fresh fruit and vegetables
Date: 2004-04-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, exchange of information, fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, representative market price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 877/2004

of 29 April 2004

laying down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards notification of the
prices recorded on the markets for certain fresh fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Com-
munity,

(5)

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), and in particular Article 28(2) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

Article 1

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

the
Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 requires
Member States to notify to the Commission the prices
for certain fresh fruit and vegetables recorded on the
representative markets. The detailed rules for imple-
menting that requirement were laid down in Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 659/97 (2),
itself repealed by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 103/2004 21 January
2004 laying down detailed rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards inter-
vention arrangements
and vegetables
in the
sector (3). New detailed rules should therefore be adopted
for
recorded on the
markets for certain fresh fruit and vegetables which, in
the interests of clarity, should be separate from the
detailed rules on intervention and withdrawals in the
fruit and vegetables sector.

the notification of

the prices

fruit

The prices transmitted to the Commission for each
product should be comparable. A reasonably harmo-
nised definition should therefore apply throughout the
Community regarding the marketing stage, presentation,
quality class and, where applicable, the variety or type.
The various representative markets for each product
the
concerned should also be defined.
Member States should, where appropriate, provide the
necessary explanations to the Commission regarding the
methods and criteria applied to calculate the prices
concerned.

In addition,

In order to ensure rapid circulation of information, elec-
tronic means of transmission should be used.

In the interests of transparency, the Commission should
inform the Member States of
recorded
throughout the Community and the Community average
price.

the prices

1.
The prices to be recorded under Article 28(1) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 2200/96 shall be for class I products, ex packing
station, sorted, packaged and, where applicable, on pallets,
expressed in euro per 100 kilograms net weight.

2.
The Member States shall determine the representative
markets referred to in Article 28(1) of Regulation (EC) No
2200/96 on the basis of:

(a) either transactions carried out on physically identifiable
markets (wholesale markets, auctions and other physical
meeting places of supply and demand) in the production
area,

(b) or direct transactions between producers in the production
area and individual buyers (wholesalers, traders, distribution
centres and other operators),

(c) or a combination of the types of transaction referred to at

(a) and (b) above.

The list of representative markets is set out in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

For the products listed in the Annex, the Member States shall
forward to the Commission, no later than 12.00 (Brussels time)
on Wednesday each week, a notification detailing for each
market day the average price in euro per 100 kilograms
recorded on the markets listed in the Annex for the types and/
or varieties of products and the sizes and/or qualities stated in
the Annex for which there have been transactions as referred
to in Article 1(2).

These notifications shall be sent via the electronic system indi-
cated by the Commission.

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commis-

sion Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003, p. 64).

(2) OJ L 100, 17.4.1997, p. 22. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1135/2001 (OJ L 154, 9.6.2001, p. 9).

(3) OJ L 16, 23.1.2004, p. 3.

The Commission shall forward this information to the Member
States, together with the Community average price for each
product concerned.

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Article 3

1.
At the Commission's request, the Member States shall
transmit the method they use to calculate the average price
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 2.

Where prices given for the types and/or varieties of products
concerned are for sizes and/or presentations other than those
specified in the Annex, the Member States may calculate the
average price for the sizes and/or presentations in the Annex
using conversion coefficients. Fixing the conversion coefficients
shall be included in the method referred to in the first sub-
paragraph of this paragraph.

If necessary,

2.
guidelines on the method referred to in paragraph 1.

the Commission shall draw up common

Article 4

into force on the 20th day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 April 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Tomatoes

Round

Trusses

Cherry

Aubergines

Long or round

Size 57-67/67-82 mm,
in bulk in packs of around
5-6 kg

in bulk in packs of around
3-6 kg

of

around

250-

Trays
500 g

Wien (AT)
Flanders (BE)
Praha (CZ)
Lasithi (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Granada (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Bretagne (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Lecce (IT)
Salerno (IT)
Vittoria (IT)
Westland (NL)
Kalisko-pleszewski (PL)
Algarve (PT)
Komarno (SK)

Size 40 mm and over for
long varieties and 70 mm
and over for round vari-
eties
in bulk in packs of around
5 kg

Lasithi (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Salerno (IT)
Foggia (IT)
Vittoria (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)

Water melons

With seeds

In bulk

Melons

Galia

Size 800-1 250 g,
packs of around 5-10 kg

Charentais/Cantaloups, reti-
culated or smooth

Size 800-1 250 g,
packs of around 5-10 kg

Canary/yellow varieties

Packs of around 5 -10 kg

Piel de Sapo

Melao Branco

Cauliflowers

Trimmed

Large (16-20 cm),
packs
six to 12.

containing around

Nicosia (CY)
Helia (EL)
Viotia (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Valencia (ES)
Budapest (HU)
Lecce (IT)
Latina (IT)
Ribatejo (PT)

Helia (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Ciudad Real (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Ferrara (IT)
Lecce (IT)
Ribatejo (PT)
Algarve (PT)

Wien (AT)
Flanders (BE)
Praha (CZ)
Rheinland-Pfalz (DE)
Thessaloniki (EL)
La Rioja (ES)
Bretagne (FR)
Nord (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Taranto (IT)
Salerno (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)
Krakowsko-proszowicki (PL)
London (UK)

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Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Apricots

All types and varieties

Size 45-50 mm
Trays or packs of around
6-10 kg

Size A/B
Trays or packs of around
6-10 kg

Size A/B
Trays or packs of around
6-10 kg

Size A/B
Trays or packs of around
6-10 kg

Size A/B
Trays or packs of around
6-10 kg

5-12 kg trays or packs

Argolida (EL)
Murcia (ES)
Valencia (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Napoli (IT)
Bologna (IT)

Hemathia (EL)
Lleida (ES)
Zaragoza (ES) Rhône-Médi-
terranée (FR)
Ravenna (IT)
Forli (IT)

Hemathia (EL)
Pella (EL)
Lleida (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Huesca (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Caserta (IT)
Forli (IT)
Cova da Beira (PT)

Nicosia (CY)
Korinthos (EL)
Alicante (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Bari (IT)
Foggia (IT)
Algarve (PT)

seedless

and

Size 55/60,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Size 60/65,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Size 65/70,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Size 70/75,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Flanders (BE)
Hemathia (EL)
Lleida (ES)
Zaragoza (ES)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Ferrara (IT)
Modena (IT)
Geldermalsen (NL)
Grójecko-warecki (PL)
Oeste (PT)

Doyenné du Comice

Size 75/80,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Nectarines

White flesh

Yellow flesh

Peaches

White flesh

Table grapes

Poires

Yellow flesh

Muscatel

Chasselas

Alphonse Lavallée

Italia

Cardinal

Red Globe

Victoria

Matilde

Thomson
sultanas

Blanquilla

Conference

Williams

Rocha

Abbé Fétel

Kaiser

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Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Apples

Golden delicious

Size 70/80,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Gleisdorf (AT)
Flanders (BE)
Praha (CZ)
Niedersachsen (DE)
Hemathia (EL)
Lleida (ES)
Girona (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Trento (IT)
Bolzano (IT)
Geldermalsen (NL)
Grójecko-warecki (PL)
Lubelsko-sandomierski (PL)
Oeste (PT)

Braeburn

Jonagold (or Jonagored)

Idared

Fuji

Shampion

Granny smith

Red delicious and other red
varieties

Boskoop

Gala

Elstar

Cox orange

All varieties

Satsumas

Size 65/70,
packs of around 5-20 kg

Sizes 1-X – 2,
packs of around 10-20 kg

Valencia (ES)

Lemons

All varieties

Sizes 1-3,
packs of around 15 kg

Clementines

All varieties

Sizes 1-X – 2,
packs of around 10-20 kg

Mandarins

All varieties

Sizes 1-X – 2,
packs of around 10-20 kg

Size 2/-4,
packs of around 15-20 kg

Oranges

Salustiana

Navelinas

Navelate

Lanelate

Valencia late

Tarocco

Nicosia (CY)
Achaia (EL)
Alicante (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Catania (IT)
Siracusa (IT)

Arta (EL)
Castellon (ES)
Valencia (ES)
Corigliano (IT)
Catania (IT)

Nicosia (CY)
Chios (EL)
Castellon (ES)
Valencia (ES)
Palermo (IT)
Catania (IT)
Siracusa (IT)
Algarve (PT)

Nicosia (CY)
Argolida (EL)
Lakonia (EL)
Alicante (ES)
Valencia (ES)
Sevilla (ES)
Catania (IT)
Siracusa (IT)
Algarve (PT)

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Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Courgettes

All varieties

Size 14-21,
loose in the pack

Cerises

All sweet varieties

Sizes 22 and over,
loose in the pack

Cucumbers

Smooth varieties

Sizes 350-500 g,
arranged in the pack

Kiwis

Hayward

Sizes 105-125 g,
packs of around 3-10 kg

Wien (AT)
Attiki (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Bari (IT)
Latina (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)

Praha (CZ)
Rheinland-Pfalz (DE)
Pella (EL)
Zaragoza (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Bari (IT)
Napoli (IT)
Grójecko-warecki (PL)
Cova da Beira (PT)

Wien (AT)
Flanders (BE)
Helia (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Bari (IT)
Vittoria (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)
Kalisko-pleszewski (PL)
Komarno (SK)
Birmingham (UK)

Pieria (EL)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Latina (IT)
Cuneo (IT)
Verona (IT)
Grande Porto (PT)

Avocados

Hass

Garlic

White

Violet

Sizes 16-20,
packs of around 4-12 kg

Nicosia (CY)
Chania (EL)
Granada (ES)

Size 50-80 mm,
packs of around 2-5 kg

Evia (EL)
Cuenca (ES)
Cordoba (ES)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Rovigo (IT)

Carrots

All varieties

Loose in the pack

Raasdorf (AT)
Praha (CZ)
Schleswig-Holstein (DE)
Rheinland-Pfalz (DE)
Cadiz (ES)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Ragusa (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)
Warszawsko-łe˛czycki (PL)
Montijo (PT)
Birmingham (UK)

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Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Plums

Greengage

Size 35 mm and over

European plums (President,
Stanley, Cacanska, etc.)

Size 35 mm and over

Santa Rosa

Size 40 mm and over

Japanese
Japan, etc.)

plums

(Golden

Size 40 mm and over

Sweet peppers

Square green

Size 70 mm and over

Square
yellow, etc.)

coloured

(red,

White

Size 50 mm and over

Elongated green

Size 40 mm and over

Asparagus

White/violet

Size 16 mm and over

Green

Size 10-16 mm

Onions

Yellow

White

Red

Size 40-80 mm, sacks of
around 5-25 kg

Beans

Needle (round)

Size ‘fine’,
arranged in the package

Flat

Arranged in the package

Lettuces

Iceberg

Size 400 g and over,
packs of 8 — 12

Other varieties of headed
lettuce (including Batavia)

Size 400 g
and over, packs of 8 -12

Praha (CZ)
Baden-Würtemberg (DE)
Murcia (ES)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Modena (IT)
Bologna (IT)
Grójecko-warecki (PL)
Alfândega da Fé (PT)

Evia (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Budapest (HU)
Brindisi (IT)
Vittoria (IT)
Westland (NL)
Oeste (PT)
Komarno (SK)

Baden-Würtemberg (DE)
Brandenburg (DE)
Pella (EL)
Granada (ES)
Navarra (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Verona (IT)
Grubbenvorst (NL)
Nowotomysko-wolsztyn´ ski
(PL)

Raasdorf (AT)
Praha (CZ)
Viotia (EL)
Albacete (ES)
Bourgogne (FR)
Budapest (HU)
Verona (IT)
Zoetermeer (NL)
Warszawsko-łe˛czycki (PL)
Birmingham (UK)

Evia (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Granada (ES)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Salerno (IT)
Vittoria (IT)

Wien (AT)
Flanders (BE)
Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
(DE)
Attiki (EL)
Almeria (ES)
Murcia (ES)
Rhône-Méditerranée (FR)
Bari (IT)
Grubbenvorst (NL)
Oeste (PT)
London (UK)

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Product

Type/variety

Presentation/size

Markets

Fraises

Toutes variétés

Barquettes 250/500 g

Leeks

All varieties

Packs of around 5 -10 kg

Cultivated mushrooms

Closed

Medium sized (30-65 mm)

Flanders (BE)
Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE)
Huelva (ES)
Sud-Ouest (FR)
Salerno (IT)
Barendrecht (NL)
Płocki (PL)
Algarve (PT)
London (UK)

Flanders (BE)
Nordrhein-Westfalen (DE)
Thessaloniki (EL)
Manche (FR)
Grubbenvorst (NL)
London (UK)

Flanders (BE)
La Rioja (ES)
Val de Loire — Centre (FR)
Dublin (IE)
Budapest (HU)
Barendrecht (NL)
Poznan´ ski (PL)
London (UK)