CELEX: 31977R0608
Language: en
Date: 1977-03-23
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 608/77 of 23 March 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of April 1977

No L 76/ 22                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             24 . 3 . 77
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 608 /77
                                                        of 23 March 1977
                      fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of April 1977
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    substantial proportion of the production marketed
  COMMUNITIES ,                                                    over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
                                                                   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
                                                                   market are to be disregarded ;
  Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
 of the markets in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               Whereas during the month of April Community
 amended by Regulation ( EEC) No, 795/76 (2 ), and in              produced tomatoes are grown mainly under glass ;
  particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             whereas the reference price for this month must there­
                                                                   fore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas toma­
                                                                   toes imported from certain third countries will have
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation               been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                  tomatoes may be classed in class I, their quality and
 whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of               price are not comparable with those of products
 the marketing year ;                                              grown under glass ; whereas the price for tomatoes not
                                                                   grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by a
                                                                   conversion factor ;
 Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in
 the Community that reference prices should be fixed
 for them ;                                                        Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                   are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                   ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year
 are marketed from January to December ; whereas, for
 the present marketing year, on the information
 currently available it is not possible to fix reference
 prices beyond the month of April ; whereas the quanti­            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 ties harvested of January to March are so small that
 there is no need to fix reference prices for that period
 of the year ; whereas reference price should therefore
 be fixed only for the month of April ;                                                     Article 1
 Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   1 . For the month of April 1977, the reference price
 ( EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal            for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common
 to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                 Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 Member State plus an amount representing the costs                kilograms net of packed products of class I , of all
 of transporting Communiiy products from the produc­               sizes , shall be as follows : 101-04 .
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
 must also be taken into account ;                                 2.     For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                   prices for tomatoes, not produced under glass,
                                                                   imported from third countries shall , after deduction of
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                   customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion factor
 average of the prices recorded on the representative              of 1-80 .
 market or markets situated in the production areas
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac­                                         Article 2
 teristics, being a product or variety representing a
(') O ) No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972 , p . I                           This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April
(-') O) No L 93, 8 . 4. 1976, p . 6 .                              1977 .
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            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States .
            Done at Brussels, 23 March 1977 .
                                                                   For the Commission
                                                                    Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                       Vice-President