CELEX: 31977R0218
Language: en
Date: 1977-02-01
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 218/77 of 1 February 1977 fixing the average world market price and the indicative yield for linseed for the 1976/77 marketing year

No L 30 / 6                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              2. 2. 77
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 218/77
                                                      of 1 February 1977
               fixing the average world market price and the indicative yield for linseed for the
                                                    1976/77 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    hectare of seeds harvested from seed flax and fibre flax
COMMUNITIES,                                                       in the main production areas ; whereas on the basis of
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             those details the indicative yield for linseed should be
Economic Community,                                                that specified below ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
569/76 of 15 March 1976 laying down special                       are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
measures for linseed ('), and in particular Article 2 (4)          ment Committee for Oils and Fats,
thereof,
Whereas an average world market price for linseed                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
must be determined each year according to the
criteria laid down in Council Regulation ( EEC) No                                         Article 1
 1774/76 of 20 July 1976 on special measures for
linseed (2 ) ;                                                     For the 1976/77 marketing year, the average world
                                                                   market price for linseed shall be 23-121 units of
Whereas Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC)                  account per 100 kilograms.
No 1799/76 of 22 July 1976 laying down detailed
rules for the application of special measures in respect                                   Article 2
of linseed (3) provides that the average price shall be
the arithmetic mean of the world market prices as                  For the 1976/77 marketing year, the indicative yields
referred to in that Article recorded each week over a              for linseed shall be :
representative period ;                                           (a) for seed flax produced :
Whereas the most representative period for the                         — in France and in Italy, 800 kilograms per
marketing of Community linseed may be concluded                            hectare ,
to run from 20 September 1976 to 14 January 1977 ;                     — in the other Member States, at 1 318 kilograms
whereas this is therefore the period to be taken into                      per hectare ;
account ;
                                                                  (b) for fibre flax produced :
Whereas the application of all these provisions
produces the average world market price for linseed                    — in France and dew retted, 550 kilograms per
specified below ;                                                          hectare ,
                                                                       — in France and not dew retted, and in the other
Whereas Article 2 (2) of Regulation ( EEC) No 569/76
provides that the subsidy is to be granted for a produc­                   Member States except for the Netherlands,
tion figure obtained by applying an indicative yield to                    1 031 kilograms per hectare,
the surface areas sown and harvested ; whereas that                    — in the Netherlands, 1 150 kilograms per
                                                                           hectare .
yield must be determined by applying the criteria laid
down in Regulations ( EEC) No 569/76 and (EEC) No
 1774/ 76 ;                                                                                Article 3
Whereas, in accordance with Article 17 ( 1 ) of Regula­           This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
tion ( EEC) No 1799 /76, the producer Member States                following its publication in the Official Journal of
have given the Commission details of the yields per                the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 1 February 1 977.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 67 , 15 . 3 . 1976, p. 29 .
(') OJ No L 199 , 24 . 7 . 1976, p. 1 .
( 3 ) OJ No L 201 , 27 . 7 . 1976, p. 14 .