CELEX: 31976R0624
Language: en
Date: 1976-03-19 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 624/76 of 19 March 1976 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the 1976 marketing year

20 . 3. 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                            No L 74/9
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 624/76
                                                        of 19 March 1976
                     fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the 1976 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
COMMUNITIES,                                                       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
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       market are to be disregarded ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 Whereas up to 10 July Community-produced toma­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2482/75 (2), and in                 toes are grown mainly in greenhouses ; whereas the
particular Article 27(1 ) thereof,                                 reference prices for the first part of the marketing year
                                                                   must therefore be fixed for a product of that type ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                whereas tomatoes imported from certain third coun­
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                   tries during the same period will have been grown in
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of                the open ; whereas, although such tomatoes may be
the marketing year ;                                               classed in Class I, their quality and price are not
                                                                   comparable with those of products grown in green­
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in                houses ; whereas the prices for tomatoes not grown in
the Community that reference prices should be fixed                greenhouses should therefore be adjusted by a conver­
                                                                   sion factor ;
for them ;
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year                Whereas, from October to December inclusive, toma­
are marketed from January to December ; whereas the                 toes imported from certain third countries are culti­
quantities harvested from January to March and                     vated in greenhouses ; whereas a conversion factor
during the last 10 days of December are so small that               should also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes
there is no need to fix reference prices for the whole              to make them comparable with the reference prices
year ; whereas reference prices should therefore be                 calculated during this period on the basis of prices of
 fixed only for the period from 1 April up to and                   Community products cultivated in the open ;
including 20 December ;
                                                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                    are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal               ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the cost of
 transporting Community products from the produc­
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 must also be taken into account ;
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
                                                                                             Article 1
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
                                                                    1 . For the 1976 marketing year, the reference
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                    prices for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the
average of the prices recorded on the representative                Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
 market or markets situated in the production areas                 account per 100 kg net of packed products of Class I,
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to            of all sizes, shall be as follows :
the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­                         — April                            97-15   ;
teristics, being a product or variety representing a                        —   May                            72-77   ;
substantial proportion of the production marketed                           —   1 June to 10 July              53-10   ;
                                                                            —   1 1 July to 31 August          18-03   ;
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .                                    —   September                      19-67   ;
(2) OJ No L 254, 1 . 10 . 1975, p. 3 .                                      — 1 October to 20 December         22-43 .
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2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price :             deduction of customs duties, be multiplied by a
                                                                conversion factor of 0-55 from 1 October to 20
(a) the prices for tomatoes not produced in green­
                                                                December.
    houses, imported from third countries, shall, after
    deduction of customs duties, be multiplied, by a
                                                                                  Article 2
    conversion factor of 1 *80 from 1 April to 10 July.
(b) the price for tomatoes produced in greenhouses          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
    and imported from third countries shall, after           1976 .
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 19 March 1976.
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                       P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                  Member of the Commission