CELEX: 31977R1047
Language: en
Date: 1977-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1047/77 of 18 May 1977 fixing for the 1977 marketing year the reference prices for cherries

No L 125/28                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             19 . 5. 7
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1047/77
                                                      of 18 May 1977
                      fixing for the 1977 marketing year the reference prices for cherries
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   Whereas producer prices are to correspond to th
COMMUNITIES,                                                    average of the prices recorded on the representativ
                                                                 market or markets situated in the production are;
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European           where prices are lowest, during the three years prior I
Economic Community,                                              the date on which the reference price is fixed, for
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     home-grown product with defined commercial chara<
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization                teristics, being a product or variety representing
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               substantial proportion of the production markete
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in              over the year or over part thereof and satisfying spec
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             fied requirements as regards market preparation
                                                                whereas, when the average of prices recorded on eac
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation              representative market is being calculated, prices whic
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                 could be considered excessively high or excessive!
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              low in relation to normal price fluctuations on tha
the marketing year ;                                             market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas cherries are produced in such quantities in              Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulatio
the Community that reference prices should be fixed              are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage<
for them ;
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas cherries harvested during a given crop year
are marketed from April to August ; whereas the quan­
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
tities harvested in April, during the first 20 days of
May and the last 20 days of August are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for these                                         Article 1
periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only
for the period from 21 May up to and including 10                For the 1977 marketing year, the reference price fo
August ;                                                         cherries (subheading 08.07 C of the Commo
                                                                 Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 10
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                 kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of a
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on               sizes, shall be as follows :
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in
each Member State plus an amount representing the                     May (21 to 31 ) :                             63.06
                                                                      June :                                        56.32
costs of transporting Community products from the
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                     July :                                        51.72
whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying­                 August (1 to 10) :                            39.69
in prices must also be taken into account ;
                                                                                           Article 2
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­         This Regulation shall enter into force on 21 Ma
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                      1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 18 May 1977.
                                                                             For the Commission
                                                                              Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                 Vice-President
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) See page 1 of this Official Journal.