CELEX: 31990R3541
Language: en
Date: 1990-12-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3541/90 of 7 December 1990 fixing for the rest of the 1990/91 marketing year the Community offer prices for cabbage lettuce applicable with regard to Spain

8 . 12. 90                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 344/ 15
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3541/90
                                                  of 7 December 1990
                 fixing for the rest of the 1990/91 marketing year the Community offer prices for
                                  cabbage lettuce applicable with regard to Spain
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                    during the three years preceding the date of fixing of the
                                                               Community offer price ; whereas, however, the annual
                                                               Community offer price cannot exceed the reference price
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          applied for third countries ;
Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas, in order to take account of seasonal variations in
Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and             prices, the marketing year should be divided into one or
Portugal,                                                      more periods and a Community offer price should be
                                                               fixed for each of them ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3709/89
of 4 December 1989 laying down general rules for imple­        Whereas, in accordance with Article 1 of Regulation
menting the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal as          (EEC) No 3709/89, the producer prices to be used for the
regards the compensation mechanism on exports of fruit         determination of the Community offer price are to be
and vegetables originating in Spain ('), and in particular     those of a domestic product defined by its commercial
Article 4 (1 ) thereof,                                        characteristics recorded on the representative market or
                                                               markets located in the production areas where prices are
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3815/89 (2)             lowest for products or varieties representing a consider­
lays down detailed rules for the application of the            able proportion of production marketed throughout the
compensation mechanism to imports of fruit and vege­           year or during a part of the latter and which meet Quality
tables from Spain ;                                             Class I requirements and conditions laid down as regards
                                                               packaging ; whereas the average price for each representa­
                                                                tive market must be established after disregarding prices
Whereas, pursuant to Article 1 52 of the Act of Accession,     which may be considered excessively high or excessively
a compensation mechanism is to be introduced on                low compared with the normal fluctuations recorded on
imports into the Community as constituted at 31                the market ; whereas, moreover, if the average price for a
December 1985, hereinafter referred to as the 'Commu­          Member State shows excessive variations with respect of
nity of Ten', from 1 January 1990, of fruit and vegetables      normal price fluctuations, it shall not be taken into
from Spain for which a reference price is fixed with           account ;
regard to third countries ; whereas, Community offer
prices for cabbage lettuce coming from Spain should be
fixed only during the period where reference prices are        Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 784/90 of 29
fixed with regard to third countries, this means from 1        March 1990 fixing the reducing coefficient for agricultural
November up to and including 31 May of the following            prices in the 1990/91 marketing year as a result of the
                                                                monetary realignment of 5 January 1990 and amending
year ;
                                                                the prices and amounts fixed in ecus for that marketing
                                                               year (4) establishes the list of prices and amounts to which
Whereas, the Community offer prices for cabbage lettuce         the coefficient 1,001712 is applied in the framework of
applicable with regard to Spain for the period 1                the arrangements on the automatic dismantlement of
November to 31 December 1990 were fixed by Commis­              negative monetary gaps ; whereas the prices and amounts
sion Regulation (EEC) No 3 1 26/90 (3) ;                        fixed in ecus by the Commission for the 1990/91 market­
                                                                ing year must take account of the resulting reduction ;
                                                                whereas this reducing coefficient shall apply to the prices
Whereas, in accordance with Article 1 52 (2) (a) of the Act     referred to above ;
of Accession, a Community offer price is to be calculated
annually on the basis of the arithmetic mean of the
producer prices in each Member State of the Community           Whereas the application of the abovementioned criteria
of Ten, plus transport and packaging costs incurred by the      results in Community offer prices being fixed for cabbage
products from the production regions to the representa­         lettuce applicable with regard to Spain for the period 1
tive consumption centres of the Community and bearing           January to 31 May 1991 at the levels set out hereinafter ;
in mind developments in the cost of production in the
fruit and vegetable sector ; whereas the abovementioned         Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
 producer prices correspond to the average prices recorded      in accordance with the opinion of the Management
                                                                Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
(') OJ No L 363, 13. 12. 1989, p. 3.
0 OJ No L 371 , 20. 12. 1989, p. 28.
 0 OJ No L 299, 30. 10. 1990, p. 20.                            (4) OJ No L 83, 30 . 3. 1990, p. 102.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION
                                                                per 100 kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
                                                                sizes, shall be as follows :
                         Article 1
                                                                    1 January to 28 February 1991 :                 75,60,
                                                                    1 March to 31 May 1991 :                         82,34.
For the rest of the 1990/91 marketing year, the Commu­                                   Article 2
nity offer prices for cabbage lettuce (CN code 0705 11 10
and 90) applicable with regard to Spain, expressed in ecus      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1991 .
                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                 States.
                 Done at Brussels, 7 December 1990.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                           Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                                      Member of the Commission