CELEX: 31991R2929
Language: en
Date: 1991-10-05 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2929/91 of 4 October 1991 fixing for the 1991/92 marketing year the reference prices for broad-leaved (Batavian) endives

5. 10 . 91                            Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 278/ 11
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2929/91
                                                     of 4 October 1991
                   fixing for the 1991/92 marketing year the reference prices for broad-leaved
                                                     (Batavian) endives
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     State plus transport costs for the current year, after this
                                                                 amount has been increased by the rise in production costs
                                                                 less productivity growth ; whereas the reference price may,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           however, not be lower than in the preceding marketing
 Economic Community,                                             year ;
                                                                 Whereas, to take seasonal price variations into account,
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72            the marketing year should be divided into several periods
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                and a reference price fixed for each of these periods ;
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by
 Regulation (EEC) No 1623/91 (2), and in particular Article
 27 (1 ) thereof,                                                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
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC)         lowest, during the three years prior to the date on which
 No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­         the reference price is fixed, for a home-grown product
 nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing          with defined commercial characteristics, being a product
year ;
                                                                 or variety representing a substantial proportion of the
                                                                 production marketed over the year or over part thereof
                                                                 and satisfying specified requirements as regards market
Whereas broad-leaved (Batavian) endives (Cichorium               preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded
 endivia L. var. latifolia) are produced in such quantities      on each representative market is being calculated, prices
                                                                 which could be considered excessively high or excessively
in the Community that reference prices should be fixed
for them ;                                                       low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                 market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas endives harvested during a given crop year are           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
marketed from July to June of the following year ;               in accordance with the opinion of the Management
whereas the quantities imported from 1 July to 14                Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 November and from 1 April to 30 June of the following
year 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 15 November up to and
including 31 March of the following year ;                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas Article 23 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 stipulates that reference prices are to be fixed at                              Article 1
the same level as for the preceding marketing year,
adjusted, after deducting the standard cost of transporting      For the 1991 /92 marketing year, the reference prices for
Community products between production areas and                  broad-leaved (Batavian) endives (CN code 0705 29 00),
Community consumption centres in the preceding year,             expressed in ecus per 100 kilograms net of packed
by :                                                             products of class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows :
— the increase in production costs for fruit and                 — from 15 November 1991 to
     vegetables, less productivity growth, and                       31 January 1992 :                          58,79,
— the standard rate of transport costs in the current            — from 1 February 1992 to
     marketing year ;                                                31 March 1992 :                            63,44.
Whereas the resulting figure may nevertheless not exceed                                  Article 2
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 November
0 OJ No L 150, 15. 6. 1991 , p. 8.                               1991 .
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             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 4 October 1991 .
                                                                    For the Commission
                                                                     Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                Member of the Commission