CELEX: 31977R1427
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-29 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1427/77 of 29 June 1977 fixing, for the marketing year 1977/78, the reference prices for pears

No L 160 /42                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             30 . 6 . 77
                                   COMMISSION REGULATION ( EEC) No 1427/77
                                                          of 29 June 1977
                     fixing , for the marketing year 1977/78 , 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 1034/77 (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 marketing year 1977/78 , the reference price
reference prices should therefore be fixed for the                   for pears, other than perry pears (subheading ex
period from 1 July up to and including 30 April of                   08.06 B II of the Common Customs Tariff), expressed
the following year ;                                                 in 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                                             21-49
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in               — August                                           1 7-92
each Member State plus an amount representing the                    — September                                        17-79
cost of transporting Community products from the                     — October                                           19-20
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;                   — November                                         20-59
whereas the trend of average basic prices and the                    — December                                         22-1 1
buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;                   — January to April inclusive                       23-02
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 1977.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 29 June 1977 .
                                                                               For the Commission
                                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                   Vice-President
 (') OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
 (2 ) OJ No L 125 , 19 . 5 . 1977, p . 1 .