CELEX: 31978R1806
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-28 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1806/78 of 28 July 1978 fixing for the 1978/79 marketing year the minimum purchase price and the amount of financial compensation for oranges delivered for processing

29. 7. 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 205/65
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1806/78
                                                       of 28 July 1978
               fixing for the 1978/79 marketing year the minimum purchase price and the
                   amount of financial compensation for oranges delivered for processing
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                     are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
2601 /69 of 18 December 1969 laying down special
measures to encourage the processing of certain varie­                                    Article 1
ties of oranges (J), as last amended by Regulation
(EEC) No 1154/78 (2), and in particular Articles 2 (3)            1 . For the 1978/79 marketing year the minimum
and 3 (2) thereof,                                               price referred to in Article 2 (2) of Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 2601 /69 shall be :
Whereas Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69                (a) for oranges of the 'Biondo comune' variety,
provides that the minimum price which processors
must pay producers under the contracts is calculated                  — 8.38 units of account per 100 kilograms net tor
on the basis of the purchase price plus 10 % of the                      products in Class I,
basic price of the varieties which, by reason of their
                                                                      — 6.89 units of account per 100 kilograms net for
commercial characteristics, are usually sent for
                                                                         products in Class II,
processing ;
                                                                      — 5.42 units of account per 100 kilograms net for
                                                                         products in Class III or mixed ;
Whereas experience has shown that apart from
oranges of the 'Biondo comune' variety, the only                 (b) for Class III or mixed of the following varieties,
variety taken into account to date, the products
concerned are blood oranges in Class III or mixed ;                   — Moro and Tarocco : 10.69 units of account per
whereas, therefore, the minimum price should be                          100 kilograms net,
fixed on the basis of the average purchase price for                  — Sanguinello : 9-92 units of account per 100
the current marketing year applicable under Council                      kilograms net,
Regulation (EEC) No 1123/78 of 22 May 1978 fixing
certain prices and other amounts applicable in the                    — Sanguigno : 8.38 units of account per 100 kilo­
fruit and vegetables sector for the 1978/79 marketing                    grams net.
year (3) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No
 1203/73 of 4 May 1973 fixing the conversion factors             2. This minimum price is fixed for goods ex
to be applied to the buying-in prices for fruit and vege­        producers' packing centre.
tables (4), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2398/76 (5), for oranges of the variety in question, plus
 10 % of the average basic price for the same period ;                                    Article 2
Whereas Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69                The amount of the financial compensation referred to
provides that financial compensation must be so fixed            in Article 3 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 2601 /69 shall
                                                                 be :
that the difference between the minimum price and
the financial compensation does not vary, in relation            (a) for oranges of the Biondo comune variety,
to that recorded for the preceding marketing year, by
a percentage exceeding the percentage variation in the                — 5.62 units of account per 100 kilograms net for
minimum price ;                                                          products in Class I,
(!) OJ  No  L 324, 27. 12. 1969, p. 21 .                              — 4.13 units of account per 100 kilograms net for
(2) OJ  No  L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                                   products in Class II,
(3) OJ  No  L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 14.
(4) OJ  No  L 123, 10. 5. 1973, p. 1 .                                — 2-66 units of account per 100 kilograms net for
(5) OJ  No  L 270, 2. 10. 1976, p. 17.                                   products in Class III or mixed ;
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(b) for Class III or mixed of the following varieties,                             Article 3
    — Moro and Tarocco, 7.93 units of account per
        100 kilograms net,
    — Sanguinello, 716 units of account per 100 kilo­
        grams net,                                          This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
    — Sanguigno, 5.62 units of account per 100 kilo­        following its publication in the Official Journal of
        grams net.                                          the European Communities.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States .
             Done at Brussels, 28 July 1978 .
                                                                     For the Commission
                                                                      Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                         Vice-President