Commission Regulation (EC) No 710/2008 of 24 July 2008 setting the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases for the 2008/2009 marketing year
Date: 2008-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: common organisation of markets, common price policy, fixing of prices, market prices, pigmeat

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 710/2008

of 24 July 2008

setting the weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig
carcases for the 2008/2009 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri­
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri­
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular
Article 43 thereof,

(4)

(5)

Since the 2008/2009 marketing year begins on 1 July
2008, this Regulation should be applicable as of that
date.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
Markets,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The Community market price for pig carcases, as referred
to in Articles 17 and 37 of Regulation (EC) No
1234/2007, must be
established by weighting the
prices recorded in each Member State by coefficients
expressing the relative size of
the pig population of
each Member State.

These coefficients should be determined on the basis of
the number of pigs counted at
the beginning of
December
in accordance with Council
each year
Directive 93/23/EEC of 1 June 1993 on the statistical
surveys to be carried out on pig production (2).

In view of the results of the December 2007 census, new
weighting coefficients should be set for the 2008/2009
marketing
and Commission Regulation (EC)
No 846/2007 (3) should be repealed.

year

Article 1

The weighting coefficients referred to in Articles 17 and 37 of
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be as set out in the Annex
hereto.

Regulation (EC) No 846/2007 is hereby repealed.

Article 2

Article 3

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

It shall apply from 1 July 2008.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 510/2008 (OJ L 149, 7.6.2008,
p. 61).

(2) OJ L 149, 21.6.1993, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
(OJ L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 187, 19.7.2007, p. 3.

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ANNEX

Weighting coefficients to be used in calculating the Community market price for pig carcases for the 2008/2009
marketing year

Articles 17 and 37 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007

Belgium

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Denmark

Germany

Estonia

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Finland

Sweden

United Kingdom

3,9 %

0,6 %

1,7 %

8,2 %

16,9 %

0,2 %

0,6 %

16,3 %

9,4 %

1,0 %

5,8 %

0,3 %

0,3 %

0,6 %

0,05 %

2,4 %

0,05 %

7,3 %

2,0 %

11,0 %

1,5 %

4,1 %

0,3 %

0,6 %

0,9 %

1,1 %

2,9 %