CELEX: 31978R1233
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1233/78 of 8 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1978 marketing year

No L 153/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                                9 . 6. 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1233/78
                                                      of 8 June 1978
                     fixing the reference prices for plums for the 1978 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
COMMUNITIES,                                                     the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
                                                                 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            teristics, being a product or variety representing a
Economic Community,                                              substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                 over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               representative market is being calculated, prices which
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in             could be considered excessively high or excessively
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                 market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                 Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              the varieties imported from third countries of which
the marketing year ;                                             the entry prices are to be compared with the prices
                                                                 fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II
Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in the             respectively should be specified ;
Community that reference prices should be fixed for
them ;                                                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are             ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
marketed (from June to October ; whereas the quanti­
ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and
during the last 10 days of October are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for these
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only
for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20
October ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in           1.     For the 1978 marketing year, the reference
each Member State plus an amount representing the                prices for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common
costs of transporting Community products from the                Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                kilograms net of packed products of Groups I and II,
                                                                 of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows for each of
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;              the groups of varieties :
                                                                                                      Group I    Group II
Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                —    from 11 June to 31 July :        34.99
comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­            —   August :                          33-52       27.30
cial value, these varieties should be classified in two          —    September :                      28-82       22.62
groups ;
                                                                 —    October (1 to 20) :                          21-36
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
ence fixed for each of these periods ;                           2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph I
                                                                 shall be composed of the following varieties :
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
average of the prices recorded on the representative             Group I :
market or markets situated in the production areas
                                                                 Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Précoce favourite,
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue,
(2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                             Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen
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quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen                  ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hausz­
quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early              wetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage),
Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro,                Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­
Reine      Claude ,  Czar, Vicorias,  Purple    Pershore,        heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore
Damsons,                                                         (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche.
Group II :
                                                              Amendments to the preceding subparagraph shall be
Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge),              adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth                   in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in
Gerstetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).                   keeping with changes in the varieties imported from
                                                              third countries .
3 . The entry prices of imported products are to be
compared :
(a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the
    imported products belong to varieties other than                                  Article 2
    those shown in (b) ;
(b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June
    imported products belong to the following varie           1978 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 8 June 1978 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                         Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                            Vice-President