CELEX: 31976R1224
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1224/76 of 25 May 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for plums

No L 137/ 18                            Official Journal of the European Communities                               26. 5. 76
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1224/76
                                                        of 25 May 1976
                       fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for plums
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    market or markets situated in the production areas
COMMUNITIES,                                                      where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
                                                                  the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European             home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
Economic Community,                                               teristics, being a product or variety representing a
                                                                  substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                  over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                representative market is being calculated, prices which
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                 could be considered excessively high or excessively
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                              low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                  market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of               Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
the marketing year ;                                              the varieties imported from third countries of which
                                                                  the entry prices are to be compared with the prices
Whereas plums are produced in such quantities in the              fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II
Community that reference prices should be fixed for               respectively should be specified ;
them ;
Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and               ment Committee for Fruit and . Vegetables,
during the last 10 days of October are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for these
periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only
for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20
October ;
                                                                  HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal
to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
of transporting Community products from the produc­                                        Article 1
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
must also be taken into account ;                                  1 . For the 1976 marketing year the reference prices
                                                                  for plums (subheading 08.07 D of the Common
Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                 Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­             kilogrammes net of packed products of Class I, of all
cial value, these varieties should be classified in two           sizes, shall be as follows for each of the groups of varie­
groups ;                                                          ties :
                                                                                                       Group I    Group II
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­          from 11 June to 31 July               31.96
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                      August                                30.61       24.95
                                                                  September                             26.33       20.68
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                  October (1 to 20)                                 19.53
average of the prices recorded on the representative
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                           2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1
 2 OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4. 1976, p. 6 .                               shall be composed of the following varieties :
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 Group I :                                                   (b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the
Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite,            imported products belong to the following varie­
Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue,           ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­
Jefferson Gage, Lützelsachser (early Lützelsachsen               zwetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins, (Oullins
quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen                  Gage), Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario,
quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early              Wangenheimer (early Wangenheim quetsche),
Buhl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro,                Pershore (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche .
Reine     Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple     Pershore,
Damsons .                                                    Amendments to the provisions of the preceding subpa­
                                                             ragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the proce­
Group II :                                                   dure in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in
Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetsche),              keeping with changes in the varieties imported from
Reine Claude d'Oullins, Sveskeblommer, Ruth                  third countries .
Gerstetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).
3. The entry prices of imported products are to be
compared :                                                                           Article 2
(a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the
     imported products belong to varieties other than        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June
     those shown in (b) ;                                    1976 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 25 May 1976.
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                          P. J. LARDINOIS
                                                                   Member of the Commission