CELEX: 31978R1531
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-30 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1531/78 of 30 June 1978 fixing, for the 1978/79 marketing year, the reference prices for pears

1 . 7 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 179 / 25
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1531 /78
                                                          of 30 June 1978
                      fixing, for the 1978 /79 marketing year, the reference prices for pears
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-grown 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 11 54/78 (2), and in                over the year or over part thereof and satisfying the
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                               specified 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 before the begin­                   low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
 ning of each marketing year ;                                      market are to be disregarded ;
Whereas pears are produced in such quantities in the                Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
 Community that reference prices should be fixed for                are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
them ;                                                              ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas pears harvested during a given crop year are
marketed from June of one year to May of the                        HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 following year ; whereas the quantities marketed in
June and May of the following year are so small that                                        Article 1
 there is no need to fix reference prices ; whereas the             For the 1978/79 marketing year, the reference price
reference prices should therefore be fixed for the                  for pears, other than perry pears (subheading ex 08.06
period from 1 July up to and including 30 April of                  B II of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in
the following year ;                                                units of account per 100 kilograms net of packed
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                   products of Class I, of all sizes, shall be as follows :
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on                 — July                                            22-56
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in              — August                                          18-83
each Member State plus an amount representing the                   — September                                       18-69
cost of transporting Community products from the                    — October                                         20-18
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                   — November                                        21-65
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and              — December                                        23-25
vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;                 — January to April inclusive                      24-21
Whereas to take variations into account, the year                                           Article 2
should be divided into several periods and a reference
price fixed for each of these periods ;                             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 30 June 1978 .
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                  Vice-President
(') OJ No L 118 , 20 . .5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(2) OJ No L 144, 31 . 5 . 1978 , p . 5 .