CELEX: 31978R1176
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1176/78 of 31 May 1978 fixing for the 1978 marketing year the reference prices for cherries

No L 145/38                              Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 6 . 78
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1176/78
                                                          of 31 May 1978
                       fixing for the 1978 marketing year the reference prices for cherries
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                     Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
 COMMUNITIES,                                                       average of the prices recorded on the representative
                                                                    market or markets situated in the production areas
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 Economic Community,                                                the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                       home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                  teristics, being a product or variety representing a
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last                 substantial proportion of the production marketed
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 11 54/78 (2), and in                over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                               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 cherries are produced in such quantities in
 the Community that reference prices should be fixed                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 for them ;                                                         are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                    ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 Whereas cherries harvested during a given crop year
 are marketed from April to September ; whereas the
 quantities harvested in April, during the first 20 days            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 of May and from 1 1 August to 30 September are so
 small that there is no need to fix reference prices for                                     Article 1
 these periods ; whereas reference prices should be
 fixed only for the period from 21 May up to and                    For the 1978 marketing year, the reference price for
 including 10 August ;                                              cherries (subheading 08.07 C of the Common
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                  Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on                kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
 the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in             sizes, shall be as follows :
 each Member State plus an amount representing the                  — May (21 to 31 ) :
 costs of transporting Community products from the                  — June :                                            59-34
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;                  — July :                                            54-50
 whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and             — August (1 to 10) :                                41-80
 vegetable sector must also be taken into account ;
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the                                       Article 2
 year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                       This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
               Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
O OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 144, 31 . .5 . 1978 , p . 5 .