CELEX: 31973R0999
Language: en
Date: 1973-04-11 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 999/73 of the Commission of 11 April 1973 fixing the reference prices for tomatoes for the 1973 marketing year

No L 99 / 30                          Official Journal of the European Communities                               13 . 4 . 73
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 999/73 OF THE COMMISSION
                                                      of 11 April 1973
                     fixing the reference prices for tomatoes for the 1973 marketing year
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   prior to the date of fixing of the reference price for a
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
                                                                 teristics on the representative market or markets situ­
                                                                 ated in the production areas where prices are lowest,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            for the products or varieties which represent a consid­
 Economic Community ;                                            erable proportion of production marketed throughout
                                                                 the year or during part of it, and which satisfy speci­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                    fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 1035/72 (^ of 18 May 1972 on the common organiza­               whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
 tion of the market in fruit and vegetables, as last              representative market is being calculated, prices which
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2745/72 (2), and in              could be considered excessively high or excessively
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof ;                           low in relation to normal price fluctuations on the
                                                                 market should be disregarded ;
Whereas, under Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No           Whereas up to 10 July Community-produced toma­
 1035/72, reference prices valid for the whole Commu­            toes are mainly cultivated under glass ; whereas it is,
 nity are to be fixed each year, before the beginning of         therefore, products of this type that reference prices
 the marketing year, in respect of the whole marketing
                                                                 relate to during the first part of the marketing year ;
year ;
                                                                 whereas tomatoes imported from certain third coun­
                                                                 tries during the same period are cultivated in the
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in              open ; whereas, although these tomatoes may be classi­
 the Community that a reference price should be fixed            fied in Class 1 , their quality and price are not compar­
 for them ;                                                      able with those of products grown under glass ;
                                                                 whereas the prices of tomatoes not produced under
                                                                 glass should, therefore, be adjusted by a conversion
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year              factor ;
are marketed from January to December ; whereas the
quantities harvested from January to March and
                                                                 Whereas, from October to December inclusive, toma­
during the last ten days of December are so small that
there is no need to fix reference prices for the whole           toes imported from certain third countries are culti­
year ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only             vated under glass ; whereas a conversion factor should
 for the period from April up to and including 20                also be applied to the prices of these tomatoes to
 December ;                                                      make them comparable with the reference prices
                                                                 calculated during this period on the basis of prices of
                                                                 Community products cultivated in the open ;
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices are to be equal to
the arithmetic mean of producer prices in each                   Whereas the measures provided by the present Regula­
Member State plus an amount representing the costs
                                                                 tion are in conformity with the Advice of the Manage­
                                                                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables ;
of transporting Community products from the produc­
tion areas to Community marketing centres ; whereas
the trend of average basic prices and buying-in prices
should also be taken into account ;
                                                                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas to take seasonal variations into account, the
marketing year should be divided into several periods
and a reference price fixed for each of those periods ;
                                                                                          Article 1
Whereas the producer prices are to correspond to the
averages of the prices recorded during the three years           1 . The reference prices applicable to tomatoes
                                                                 (subheading 07.01 M of the Common Customs Tariff),
                                                                 expressed in units of account per 100 kg net of
(>) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p. 1 .                           packed products of Class 1 of all sizes, shall be as
(2) OJ No L 291 , 28 . 12. 1972, p. 147.                         follows :
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April 1 to 10 :                             ___                    — for April : 2-50
            1 1 to 30 :                      640                   — for May : 2-20
— May :                                     46-9                   — from 1 June to 10 July : 1-80
— 1 June to 10 July :                       36*1              (b) the prices for tomatoes grown under glass and
— 11 July to 31 August :                     13-1                  imported from third countries shall, after deduc­
— September :                               14-3                   tion of customs duties, be multiplied by the coeffi­
— 1 October to 20 December :                 16-3 .                cient 0-55 from 1 October to 20 December.
2. For the purpose of calculating the entry price :                                    Article 2
(a) the prices for tomatoes not produced under glass,
     imported from third countries, shall, after deduc­       This Regulation shall enter into force on the day
     tion of customs duties, be multiplied by the             following its publication in the Official Journal of
     following conversion factors :                           the European Communities.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States .
               Done at Brussels, 11 April 1973 .
                                                                        For the Commission
                                                                            The President
                                                                       Francois-Xavier ORTOLI