CELEX: 31977R1050
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-18
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1050/77 of 18 May 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes until the end of the 1977 marketing year

No L 125/32                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             19 . 5. 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1050/77
                                                      of 18 May 1977
               fixing the reference price for tomatoes until the end of the 1977 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  market or markets situated in the production areas
COMMUNITIES,                                                    where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Economic Community,                                             teristics, being a product or variety representing a
                                                                substantial proportion of the production marketed
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization              fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
of the market in fruit and vegetables ^), as last               whereas when the average of prices recorded on each
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2\ and in               representative market is being calculated prices which
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                            could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No          market are to be disregarded ;
 1035/72 reference prices valid for the whole Commu­
nity are to be fixed at the beginning of the marketing          Whereas, up to 10 July, Community produced toma­
year ;
                                                                toes are grown mainly under glass ; whereas the refer­
                                                                ence prices for this period of the marketing year must
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in             therefore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas
the Community that reference prices should be fixed             tomatoes imported from certain third countries during
for them ;                                                      the same period will have been grown in the open ;
                                                                whereas although such tomatoes may be classed in
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year              Class I, their quality and price are not comparable
are marketed from January to December ; whereas for             with those of products grown under glass ; whereas
the present marketing year the reference prices have            the prices for tomatoes not grown under glass should
respectively been fixed up to 31 May by Regulations              therefore be adjusted by a conversion factor ;
(EEC) No 608/77 of 23 March 1977(3), and (EEC) No
859/77 of 27 April 1 977 (4) ; whereas the information
now available allows these prices to be fixed up to the         Whereas, from October to December inclusive, toma­
end of the marketing year ; whereas the low quantities           toes imported from certain third countries are culti­
which are harvested during the last 10 days of                  vated under glass ; whereas a conversion factor should
 December represent only a small percentage of the               also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes to
tonnage which is marketed throughout the marketing               make them comparable with the reference prices
year ; whereas that period should not therefore be               which are during this period calculated on the basis of
 taken into account ;                                            prices of Community products cultivated in the open ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on               Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 the bases of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in          are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
each Member State plus an amount representing the                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
costs of transporting Community products from
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;
whereas the trend of average basic prices and
buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                                        Article 1
average of the prices recorded on the representative
(') OJ No  L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ See page 1 of this Official Journal.                       1 . For the 1 977 marketing year, the reference price
(») OJ No  L 76, 24. 3. 1977, p. 22.                             for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common
(«) OJ No  L 104, 28 . 4. 1977, p. 30.                           Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
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kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all              tion of customs duties, be multiplied, by a conver­
sizes, shall be as follows :                                     sion factor of 1 -80 from 1 June to 10 July ;
— 1 June to 10 July :                             55.23,     (b) the price for tomatoes produced under glass and
— 11 July to 31 August :                          18.76,         imported from third countries shall, after deduc­
— September :                                     20.46,         tion of customs duties, be multiplied by a conver­
— 1 October to 20 December :                      23.33 .        sion factor   of   0.55  from  1   October   to 20
                                                                 December.
2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price :
                                                                                     Article 2
(a) the prices for tomatoes not produced under glass,
     imported from third countries, shall, after deduc­      This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977.
                                                                      For the Commission
                                                                       Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                          Vice-President