CELEX: 31976R1156
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-18 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1156/76 of 18 May 1976 fixing for the 1976 marketing year the reference prices for cherries

19 . 5 . 76                             Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 130 / 31
                                       COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1156/76
                                                          of 18 May 1976
                          fixing for the 1976 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-gown 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 795/76 (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                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 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 1976 marketing year, the reference prices for
 August ;                                                           cherries (subheading 08.07 C of the Common
                                                                    Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   kilogrammes net of packed products of Class I , of all
 (EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are to be equal              sizes, shall be as follows :
 to the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each
 Member State plus an amount representing the costs                 —   May (21 to 31 ) : 60-63
 of transporting Community products from the produc­                —   June : 54-15
 tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas                —   July : 49-74
 the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices             —   August (1 to 10): 38-16
 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 May
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                       1976 .
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 18 May 1976.
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                 P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                          Member of the Commission
(') OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
( 2 ) OJ No L 93 , 8 . 4 . 1976 , p . 6 .