CELEX: 31977R1215
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1215/77 of 7 June 1977 fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for table grapes

No L 140/ 14                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              8 . 6. 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1215/77
                                                       of 7 June 1977
                 fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for table grapes
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
 Economic Community,                                             Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
                                                                 average of the prices recorded on the representative
                                                                 market or markets situated in the production areas
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization               the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
of the market in fruit and vegetables (J), as last               home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in              teristics ; being a product or variety representing a
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                 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 table grapes are produced in such quantities             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
in the Community that reference prices should be
fixed for them :                                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas table grapes harvested during a given crop
year are marketed from May to April of the next year ;
whereas the quantities harvested in May and June,
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
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,
due principally to developments in production tech­
niques, a relatively large increase in the marketing of                                  Article 1
Community products during the last 10 days of
November and in the month of December can be
                                                                 For the 1977 marketing year, the reference price for
expected ; whereas, however, the figures at present              table grapes (subheading 08.04 A I of the Common
available are insufficiently conclusive to justify fixing        Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
a reference price for that period ; whereas reference            kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
prices should be fixed only for the period from 11               sizes, shall be as follows :
July up to and including 20 November ;
                                                                 — July (1 1 to 20) :              33-93
                                                                            (21 to 31 ):           29-20
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                — August :                        29-20
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on
the bases of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in           — September and October :         25-72
each Member State plus an amount representing the                — November (1 to 20) :            25-99
costs of transporting Community products from the
production areas to Community marketing centres ;
whereas the trend of average basic prices and                                            Article 2
buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;
(') OJ No L 118 , 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 July
(2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p . 1 .                            1977 .
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          This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
          States.
          Done at Brussels, 7 June 1977.
                                                                 For the Commission
                                                                  Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                     Vice-President