CELEX: 31991R2905
Language: en
Date: 1991-10-02 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2905/91 of 2 October 1991 fixing for the 1991/92 marketing year the reference price for clementines

No L 276/20                           Official Journal of the European Communities                                 3 . 10 . 91
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2905/91
                                                     of 2 October 1991
                     fixing for the 1991/92 marketing year the reference price for Clementines
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                     — the amount referred to in paragraph 2 (a) of that
                                                                      Article,
                                                                 — the standard rate of transport costs in the current
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                marketing year ;
 Economic Community,
                                                                 Whereas the resulting figure may nevertheless not exceed
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72            the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each Member
 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization of the                State, with regard to Article 23, of the amount referred to
 market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last amended by          in paragraph 2 (a), plus transport costs for the current
 Regulation (EEC) No 1623/91 (2), and in particular Article      year, after this amount has been increased by the rise in
 27 (1 ) thereof,                                                production costs less productivity growth ; whereas the
                                                                 reference price may, however, not be lower than in the
                                                                 preceding marketing year ;
 Whereas Article 23 (1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72
 provides that reference prices for the whole Community          Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the average
 are to be fixed each year before the beginning of the           of the prices recorded on the representative market or
 marketing year ;                                                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
 Whereas the importance of Clementine production in the          with defined commercial characteristics, being a product
 Community is such that a reference price must be fixed          or variety representing a substantial proportion of the
 for that product ;                                              production marketed over the year or over part thereof
                                                                 and satisfying specified requirements as regards market
                                                                 preparation ; whereas, when the average of prices recorded
Whereas the period during which Clementines harvested            on each representative market is being calculated, prices
during a given crop year are marketed extends from               which could be considered excessively high or excessively
October to 1 5 May of the following year ; whereas the           low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
quantities put on the market at the beginning and at the         market are to be disregarded ;
 end of the marketing year represent only a relatively small
 percentage of that marketed over the whole marketing            Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
year ; whereas the reference price should therefore be           in accordance with the Management Committee for Fruit
fixed only for the period running from 1 December to the         and Vegetables,
last day of February of the following year ;
Whereas the fixing of a single reference price valid for the
whole marketing year appears to be the solution most             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
suited to the particular nature of the Community market
in the product in question ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas Article 23 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/72 stipulates that reference prices are to be fixed at
the same level as for the preceding marketing year,              For the 1991 /92 marketing year, the reference price for
adjusted, after deducting the amount referred to in para­        fresh Clementines (CN code 0805 20 10) expressed in ecus
graph 2 (a) of that Article and the standard cost of trans­      per 100 kilograms net of packed products of quality class
porting Community products between production areas              I, of all sizes, shall, for the period 1 December 1991 to 29
and Community consumption centres in the preceding               February 1992, be : 59,57.
year, by :
— the increase in production costs for fruit and veg­                                         Article 2
     etables, less productivity growth, and
(') OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
(2) OJ No L 150, 15. 6. 1991 , p. 8 .                            1991 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 2 October 1991 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Ray MAC SHARRY
                                                              Member of the Commission