CELEX: 31978R1532
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1532/78 of 30 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the reference prices for apples

No L 179 / 26                        Official Journal of the European Communities                                1 . 7 . 78
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1532/78
                                                     of 30 June 1978
                   fixing, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the reference prices for apples
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  teristics being a product or variety representing a
COMMUNITIES,                                                    substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
Economic Community,                                             whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
                                                                representative market is being calculated, prices which
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    could be considered excessively high or excessively
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization               low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last              market are to be disregarded ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 54/78 (2), and in
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                            Whereas, for the purpose of calculating the entry
                                                                prices, the varieties imported from third countries of
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation             which the entry prices are to be compared with the
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                prices fixed for Groups I , II and III respectively
whole Community are to be fixed before the begin­               should be specified ;
ning of each marketing year ;
                                                                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas apples are produced in such quantities in the
Community that reference prices should be fixed for             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
them ;
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas apples harvested during a given crop year are
marketed from July of one year to June of the
following year ; whereas reference prices should there­
fore be fixed for the period from 1 July up to and               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
including 30 June of the following year ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on                                     Article 1
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
each Member State plus an amount representing the
 cost of transporting Community products from the                1.     For the 1978 /79 marketing year, the reference
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;               prices for apples, other than cider apples (subheading
                                                                 ex 08.06 A II of the Common Customs Tariff),
 whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
 vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;             expressed in units of account per 100 kilograms net of
                                                                 packed products of Class I, of all sizes, for the variety
                                                                 Groups I, II and III shall be as follows :
 Whereas since the varieties of apples are not all                                    Group I ,   Group II      Group 1
 comparable as regards estimation of their commercial
 value, these varieties should be classified in three            July                  22-87         —               —
                                                                 August                19-37         —               —
 groups ;
                                                                 September             20-85        19-23          11-97
                                                                 October               20-97        17-76          12-51
 Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the           November              21-92        16-68          1 2-66
 year should be divided into several periods and a refer­        December              22-60        16-94          12-92
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                    January               2406         17-35          13-31
                                                                 February              25-01        18-83          14-54
 Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                March                 27-57        19-77          14-81
 average of the prices recorded on the representative            April                 28-24                       15-20
 market or markets situated in the production areas              May                   28-51    J 20-77            15-87
 where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to        June                  29-69          —              —
 the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 home-grown product with defined commercial charac
 (•) OJ No L 118, 20 . 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                          2. The variety groups referred to in paragraph 1 are
 (2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                            composed as follows :
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 Group I :                                                       Scarlet pearmain, White winter pearmain,
Yellow Transparent (Transparente jaune, Klarapfel),              Geeveston Fanny, Tydeman's early Worcester,
James Grieve, Gravensteiner, Golden Delicious, Cox's             Benoni ,    Stark    earliest, Winston ,   Reinette   du
orange pippin , Stark Delicious, Rouges américaines,             Canada, Berlepsch, Annurca, Lodi, Gravensteiner,
 Ingrid Marie, Reirette du Canada, Belle de Boskoop,             Miller's Seedling, Worcester pearmain, Weißwinter­
Miller's    Seedling,  Tydeman's      early   Worcester,         glockenapfel, Cortland, Spartan, Red Macintosh ,
                                                                 various    varieties   of    Cox's  other   than   Cox 's
Worcester pearmain , Weißwinterglockenapfel , and
 mutations of these varieties ;                                  pomona, and mutations of the above varieties ;
                                                             (b) with the prices fixed for Group II, where the
 Group II :                                                      imported products belong to a variety other than
Reine des Reinettes (Goldparmane), Jonathan , Impera­            those set out in (a) and (c) ;
tore (Morgenduft), Grenadier, Lord Derby, Lord               (c) with the prices fixed for Group III, where the
Lamtourne , and mutations of these varieties ;                   imported product belongs to one of the following
                                                                 varieties : Abbondanza (Belfort), Rambour d'hiver,
 Group III :                                                     Brettacher, Horneburger, Krügers Dickstiel,
Abbondanza (Belfort), Horneburger, Finkenwerder,                 Kirchenwerder, Finkenweder, Winter Banana,
Bramley's Seedling, and mutations of these varieties.            Limoncella,       Commercio,       Reinette    clochard,
                                                                 Ontario, Reinette du Mans, Lemoenapfel, Bram­
3 . The entry prices of imported products are to be              ley's Seedling (Triomphe de Kiel), Pella, Cox's
compared :                                                       pomona, and mutations of the above varieties.
(a) with prices fixed for Group I , where the imported       Any amendments to the preceding subparagraph shall
     products belong to one of the following varieties :     be adopted in accordance with the procedure in
     Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Richared, Stark
                                                             Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 by refer­
     Delicious, Starking, Starkrimson, Yellow Trans­
                                                             ence to the changes in the varieties imported from
     parent (Transparente jaune), James Grieve, Belle        third countries .
     de Boskoop, Stayman Winesap, Stayman red,
     Black Winesap, Granny Smith , Dunn 's Seedling,                                    Article 2
     King Cole, Cleopatra , Democrat, Yellow Newton ,
     Crofton, Ingrid Marie, Sturmer, Laxton's superb,        This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                           Vice-President