CELEX: 51977PC0213
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Date: 1977-05-31
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) fixing the minimum price and the special minimum price for tomato concentrates for the 1977/78 marketing year (submitted to the Council by the Commission)

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 ---pagebreak--- COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES*
                                                         COM(77 ) 213 final .
                                                         Brussels , 31 May 1977
                               Proposal for a
                           COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
       fixing the minimum price and the special minimum price for
            tomato concentrates for the 1977/78 marketing year
                ( submitted to the Council by the Commission)
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 ---pagebreak---                                EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
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Subject t Council Regulation fixing the minimum price and special minimum
             price for tomato concentrates for the I977/78 marketing year                 !
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1.           Pursuant to Artide 3 of Regulation ( EEC ) No 516 /77 a minimum price
and a special minimum price have to he fixed for tomato concentrates imported              !
into the Community .
2.           Pursuant, to the said Regulation the minimum price must be calculated
by reference to average production costs for the Community product and import
prices obtaining from 1 January 1975 » "the prices on the main world markets , the
need to prevent a more restrictive effect on trade and the need to contribute
to the development of competition with non-member countries ,                              >
3»           The figure derived from the first two criteria is 600 u . a. /tonne . This
rather low level can be explained by the effect of import prices , which have
decrease       substantially by reason of failures to apply the minimum prices , e.g. :
    ( 1 ) The minimum price was not applied for the first time until 1 September 1975 *
    ( 2 ) The minimum price for imports from Greece , which is 8.30 $ below the
          minimum price applicable to non-member countries , was not applied until
          March 1976 .
    ( 3 ) The special minimum price is substantially lower than the minimum price .
    ( 4 ) As a result of certain errors in the application of exchange rates it has
          been possible to import products at 30 to 40 % below the real value of the
          minimum price .
4.            However , the effect of the third criterion - prices on the main world
market out si -2 the Community, i.e. the USA - indicates reverse trend . The USA
producer price is estimated at 663 U.a. /tonne and the export price at 704 u.a./
tonnes . In the Consnunity the current minimum price ( 640 u«5r /i>on.'ie ) falls between
 this figure ( 700 u.a. /tonne) and thai derived from the first two criteria ( 600 u.a./
 tonne , see 3 )>
                                                                             ./.
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              The need behind the last criterion to ensure that the application
of "the minimum price contributes to the normal and harmonious development of
competition with non-member countries , confirms that it is advisable to maintain
the minimum price at its present level rather than exacerbating the level of
protection .
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              The price of 640 u . a. /tonne is therefore proposed. In the three
new Member States a minimum price of 480 u. a. /tonne obtains at present . There
is provision for alignment of this price on the minimum price in three steps ,
the first of which was taken on 1 July 1976 . With ths second step , on 1 July 1977 ,
the special minimum price becomes 560 u.a. /tonne . As of 1 January 1978 , the end
of the transitional period , the minimum pries will apply in all nine Member States.
7.             The purpose of the abovementioned Regulation is to fix the minimum
 price and special minimum price ( the latter until 31 December 1977 ) » for the
 1977/78 marketing .year. These prices are applicable with effect from 1 July 1977 .
 ---pagebreak---                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC )
  fixing the ninin>u& price and the special minimum price for tomato concentrates
                          for the 1977/78 marketing year
                             THE COUNCIL OP1 THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,
                             Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                             Eoonomio Community ,
                             Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC ) N° 516/77 of 14
                             March 1977 on the common organization of the market in
                             products prooessed from fruit and vegetables ( l ) and in
                             particular Article 3 (4 ) thereof ,
                             Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ,
Whereas Article 3 ( l ) of Regulation (EEC) N° 5*6/77 lays down that a minimum import price
shall be fixed for tomato concentrates ; whereas , under Article 2 (3 ) of the same
Regulation, a special minimum price shall be fixed at the same time for imports into
the new Member States } whereas the fixing of these prioes is intended to reduce the
risk of the disturbance of the market in tomato concentrates by imports from third
countries at abnormally low prices ;
Whereas the minimum price must be fixed in the light of the criteria laid down in
Article 3 (2 ) of Regulation (EEC ) N# 516/77 ? whereas , in accordance with Article 2 (4 )
of the same Regulation , the minimum price shall be fixed for a product with given
commercial characteristics ;
                                                                            ./.
 ( 1 ) QJ N° L 73 , 1.3.77 , P.1
 ---pagebreak--- Whereas under Article 3 (3) of Regulation (EEC) N° 516/77 , the special minimum
price shall be aligned by stages with the minimum price; whereas the second
stage of that alignment shall be effected on 1 July 1977 by increasing the
special minimum price by one half of the difference between the level of that
price obtaining before the alignment and the minimum price applicable for the
coming marketing year ;
Whereas the minimum price shall apply in the new member States by 1 January
1978 at the latest ,
                                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Article 1
 For the season 1977/78 for imports of the following product :
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          CCT
                              Description             Quality               Packing
       heading
          N°                                                        L_             -    –
                                                Dried extract         In immediate packing
     ex 20.02 C             Tomato           1
                            concentrates        content :             of not less than
                                                28 to 30              4 kg
          the minimum prioe shall be fixed at 64 units of account per 100 kg 1
          immediate packing included;
     - the special minimum price shall be fixed at 56            units of account per 100. k£
           immediate packing included.
  These price shall include customs duties .
     Article 2
     The sale season shall start 1 July 1977 untU 30 June 1978 .
      The special              price shall be applicable until 31 December.
 ---pagebreak--- Article *
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication
in the Offioial Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all
Member States *
 Done at Brussels .                              Por the Counoil
                                                   The Preáident