CELEX: 31978R1668
Language: en
Date: 1978-07-14 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1668/78 of 14 July 1978 fixing the reference prices for table grapes for the 1978 marketing year

15. 7. 78                            Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 192/ 53
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1668/78
                                                       of 14 July 1978
                   fixing the reference prices for table grapes for the 1978 marketing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                  Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                    year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
                                                                  ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
 Economic Community,                                             average of the prices recorded on the representative
                                                                  market or markets situated in the production areas
                                                                 where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               teristics ; being a product or variety representing a
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 54/78 (2), and in             substantial proportion of the production marketed
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                            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
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation              representative market is being calculated, prices which
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                 could be considered excessively high or excessively
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
the marketing year ;                                             market are to be disregarded ;
                                                                 Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas table grapes are produced in such quantities             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 in " the Community that reference prices should be              ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 fixed for them ;
Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from May to April of the next year ;           HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
whereas the quantities harvested in May and June,
during the first 10 days of July and also January to
April of the next year are so small that there is no
need to fix reference prices for these periods ; whereas,                                Article 1
due principally to developments in production tech­
niques, a relatively large increase in the marketing of
Community products during the last 10 days of                    For the 1978 marketing year, the reference price for
November and in the month of December can be                     table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common
expected ; whereas, however, the figures at present              Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
available are insufficiently conclusive to justify fixing        kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
a reference price for that period ; whereas reference            sizes, shall be as follows :
prices should be fixed only for the period 1 1 July up
to and including 20 November ;                                   — July (1 1 to 20) :                 —
                                                                              21 to 31 :            30-69
                                                                 — August :                         30*69
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                — September and October :          27 02
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on              — November (1 to 20) :             27-30
the bases of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
each Member State plus an amount representing the
costs of transporting Community products from the
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                                        Article 2
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;
                                                                 This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
(') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5 . 1972, p. 1 .                           following its publication in the Official Journal of
(2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5. 1978, p. 5.                             the European Communities.
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States .
           Done at Brussels, 14 July 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President