CELEX: 31979R1006
Language: en
Date: 1979-05-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1006/79 of 21 May 1979 fixing for June 1979 the minimum purchase price for lemons delivered to the industry and the amount of financial compensation payable after their processing

23 . 5 . 79                          Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 126/ 11
                               COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1006/79
                                                     of 21 May 1979
              fixing for June 1979 the minimum purchase price for lemons delivered to the
              industry and the amount of financial compensation payable after their
                                                        processing
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  sation, the interested parties have been unable to
COMMUNITIES,                                                    conclude contracts for June 1979 by the specified
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           time ; whereas derogations should therefore be made
Economic Community,                                             from the provisions laid down in Article 1 (2) of
                                                                Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1 045/77 (2);
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
1035/77 of 17 May 1977 laying down special measures             Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 652/79 (3) laid
to promote the marketing of lemon products ( J ), and           down the coefficient for expressing amounts, fixed in
in particular Article 3 thereof,                                units of account, in ECU ;
Whereas, under Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
1035/77, the minimum price which processors must                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
pay to the producer is derived from the purchase price          ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
for quality Class III, plus 15% of the basic price ;
whereas, to simplify matters, this calculation should
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
be based on the average basic and purchase prices for
the 1979/80 marketing year ;
                                                                                        Article 1
Whereas, under Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/77, financial compensation cannot exceed the               The minimum price referred to in Article 1 (3) of
difference between the minimum purchase price                   Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 shall be 12-39 ECU per
referred to in Article 1 of the said Regulation and the         100 kilograms net for June 1979 .
prices obtaining for the basic products in producer
third countries ; whereas, for the purposes of calcu­           The said minimum price shall be in respect of
lating this compensation and with a view to encou­              products ex-producers' packaging station.
raging optimum marketing of lemon products, it
would seem advisable to apply the full difference                                       Article 2
between these prices ;
                                                                The amount of the financial compensation referred to
Whereas, for the present marketing year, information            in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 shall be
currently available does not permit the fixing of :             7-56 ECU per 100 kilograms net for June 1979 .
— the minimum purchase price,
— the amount of financial compensation,                                                 Article 3
beyond June ; whereas, in order to ensure the con­              By way of derogation from Article 1 (2) of Regulation
tinued marketing of lemons, it is therefore necessary           (EEC) No 1045/77, contracts for June 1979 may be
to maintain for June 1979 the minimum purchase                  concluded until 10 June 1979 .
price and the amount of financial compensation valid
for the 1978/79 marketing year ;
                                                                                        Article 4
Whereas, because of the late publication of the
amounts of the minimum price and financial compen­              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1979.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 21 May 1979 .
                                                                          For the Commission
                                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                              Vice-President
                                                                (2) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 23.
(>) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 3 .                            P) OJ No L 84, 4. 4. 1979, p. 1 .