CELEX: 31977R1214
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1214/77 of 7 June 1977 fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for peaches

8 . 6. 77                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 140/ 13
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1214/77
                                                       of 7 June 1977
                       fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for peaches
  THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
  COMMUNITIES,                                                   average of the prices recorded on the representative
                                                                 market or markets situated in the production areas
  Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
  Economic Community,                                            the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization              teristics, being a product or variety representing a
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              substantial proportion of the production marketed
  amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in            over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
  particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                           fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
                                                                 whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation             representative market is being calculated, prices which
 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                could be considered excessively high or excessively
 whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of             low in relation to norrftal price fluctuations on that
 the marketing year ;                                            market are to be disregarded ;
 Whereas peaches are produced in such quantities in              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 the Community that reference prices should be fixed             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 for them ;                                                      ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 Whereas peaches harvested during a given crop year
 are marketed from May to October ; whereas the quan­            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 tities harvested in May, during the first 10 days of
 June and in October are so small that there is no                                       Article 1
 need to fix reference prices for these periods ; whereas
 reference prices should be fixed only for the period            For the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for
 from 1 1 June up to and including 30 September ;                peaches (subheading 08.07 B of the Common
                                                                 Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation               kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
 (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on             sizes, shall be as follows :
 the bases of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
 each Member State plus an amount representing the               — June (1 1 to 20) :           41-99
                                                                            (21 to 30) :        38 17
 costs of transporting Community products from the
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;               — July :                       35-83
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and                   — August and September :       33-88
 buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;
                                                                                         Article 2
 Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
 year should be divided into several periods and a refer­        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                    1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 7 June 1977.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                               Vice-President
(') OJ No L 118, 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p. 1 .