CELEX: 31974R0749
Language: en
Date: 1974-03-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 749/74 of the Commission of 29 March 1974 fixing the reference prices for tomatoes for the 1974 marketing year

30 . 3 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 86/71
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 749/74 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                        of 29 March 1974
                    fixing the reference prices for tomatoes for the 1974 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                      the year or during part of it, and which satisfy 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 the
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        market should be disregarded ;
1035/72 ( J ) of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­
tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last                 Whereas up to 10 July Community-produced toma­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in                  toes are mainly cultivated under glass ; whereas it is,
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                               therefore, products of this type that reference prices
                                                                    relate to during the first part of the marketing year ;
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No              whereas tomatoes imported from certain third coun­
1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­                tries during the same period are cultivated in the
nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of             open ; whereas, although these tomatoes may be classi­
the marketing year ;                                                fied in Class 1 , their quality and price are not compar­
                                                                    able with those of products grown under glass ;
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in                 whereas the prices of tomatoes not produced under
the Community that a reference price should be fixed                glass should, therefore, be adjusted by a conversion
                                                                    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 under glass ; whereas a conversion factor should
during the last 10 days of December are so small that               also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes to
there is no need to fix reference prices for the whole              make them comparable with the reference prices
year ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only                calculated during this period on the basis of prices of
for the period from April up to and including 20                    Community products cultivated in the open ;
December ;
                                                                    Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to               time limit set by its Chairman,
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
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 :
 should also be taken into account ;
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the
                                                                                              Article 1
 marketing year should be divided into several periods
 and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;
                                                                     1 . For the 1974 marketing year the reference prices
 Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the                for tomatoes (subheading No 07.01 M of the Common
 averages of the prices recorded during the three years              Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a            kg net of packed products of Class I of all sizes, shall
                                                                     be as follows :
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
 ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,                       —  April                              70-4
 for the products or varieties which represent a consid­                     —  May                                52-8
 erable proportion of production marketed throughout                         —  1 June to 10 July                  39-7
                                                                             —  11 July to 31 August               14-4
 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .                                    —  September                          15-7
 (A OJ No L 291 , 28. 12. 1972, p. 147.                                      — 1 October to 20 December            17-9
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2.    For the purpose of calculating the entry price :           tion of customs duties, be multiplied by the coeffi­
                                                                 cient 0-55 from 1 October to 20 December.
(a) the prices for tomatoes not produced under glass,
    imported from third countries, shall, ^fter deduc­
    tion of customs duties, be multiplied by the
    following conversion factors :
                                                                                      Article 2
    — for April : 2-50 ;
    — for May : 2-00 ;
    — from 1 June to 10 July : 1-80 ;                        This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
(b) the prices for tomatoes grown under glass and            following its publication in the Official Journal of
    imported from third countries shall, after deduc­         the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 March 1974 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                           The President
                                                                      Francois-Xavier ORTOLI