CELEX: 31979R0564
Language: en
Date: 1979-03-26 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 564/79 of 26 March 1979 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of April 1979

27 . 3 . 79                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 75/ 5
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 564/79
                                                       of 26 March 1979
                    fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of April 1979
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     substantial proportion of the production marketed
COMMUNITIES,                                                       over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
                                                                   fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
                                                                  whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              representative market is being calculated, prices which
Economic Community,                                                could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                   low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                   market are to be disregarded ;
Having regard to Council Regulation ( EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the markets in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                Whereas during the month of April Community
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 325/79 (2), and in                  produced tomatoes are grown mainly under glass ;
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                               whereas the reference price for this month must there­
                                                                   fore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas toma­
                                                                   toes imported from certain third countries will have
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                   tomatoes may be classed in class I , their quality and
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of                price are not comparable with those of products
the marketing year ;                                               grown under glass ; whereas the price for tomatoes not
                                                                   grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by a
                                                                   conversion factor ;
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in
the 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
                                                                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year
are marketed from January to December ; whereas, for
the present marketing year, on the information
currently available it is not possible to fix reference
prices beyond the month of April ; whereas the quanti­              HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
ties harvested of January to March are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for that period
of the year ; whereas reference price should therefore
be fixed only for the month of April ;                                                       Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                    1.    For the month of April 1979 the reference price
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal               for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                   Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
Member State plus an amount representing the costs                  kilograms net of packed products of class I, of all
of transporting Community products from the produc­                 sizes, shall be 108 36 .
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
 the trend of production costs in the fruit and vege­
 table sector must also be taken into account ;                     2.     For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                    prices for tomatoes, not produced under glass,
                                                                    imported from third countries shall , after deduction of
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                    customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion factor
 average of the prices recorded on the representative               of 1-80 .
 market or markets situated in the production areas
 where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­                                          Article 2
 teristics, being a product or variety representing a
 (») OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
 (2) OJ No L 45, 22. 2. 1979 , p . 1 .                              1979 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 26 March 1979 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President