CELEX: 31978R1179
Language: en
Date: 1978-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1179/78 of 31 May 1978 fixing for the 1978/79 marketing year the minimum purchase price for lemons delivered to the industry and the amount of financial compensation payable after their processing

No L 145/42                            Official Journal of the European Communities                              1 . 6. 78
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1179/78
                                                       of 31 May 1978
              fixing for the 1978/79 marketing year the minimum purchase price for lemons
              delivered to the industry and the amount of financial compensation payable
                                                    after their processing
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
COMMUNITIES,                                                      are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                  ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                      HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
1035/77 of 17 May 1977 laying down special measures
to promote the marketing of lemon products ('), and                                       Article 1
in particular Article 3 thereof,
Whereas, under Article 1 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No               1 . The minimum price referred to in Article 1 (3)
 1035/77, the minimum price which processors must                 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 shall be 10-25 units
pay to the producer is derived from the purchase price            of account per 100 kilograms net for the 1978/79
                                                                  marketing year.
for quality Class III, plus 15% of the basic price ;
whereas, to simplify matters, this calculation should             2.    The said minimum price shall be in respect of
be based on the average basic and purchase prices                 products ex-producers' packaging station.
fixed for the 1978/79 marketing year by Council Regu­
lation (EEC) No 1123/78 of 22 May 1978(2);                                                Article 2
Whereas, under Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No
 1035/77, financial compensation cannot exceed the                The amount of the financial compensation referred to
difference between the minimum purchase price                     in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 shall be
referred to in Article 1 of the said Regulation and the           6-25 units of account per 100 kilograms net for the
prices obtaining for the basic products in producer               1978/79 marketing year.
third countries ; whereas, for the purposes of calcu­
lating this compensation and with a view to encou­                                        Article 3
raging optimum marketing of lemon products, it
would seem advisable to apply the full difference                  1 . By way of derogation from Article 1 (2) of Regu­
between these prices ;                                            lation (EEC) No 1045/77, contracts for the first part of
                                                                  the 1978/79 marketing year may be concluded until
Whereas, because of the late publication of the                   30 June 1978 .
amounts of the minimum price and financial compen­
sation, the interested parties have been unable to                2. By way of derogation from Article 1 (3) of Regu­
conclude contracts for the first part of the 1978/79              lation (EEC) No 1045/77, supplementary agreements
marketing year by the specified time ; whereas deroga­            to the contracts referred to in paragraph 1 may be
tions should therefore be made from the dates speci­              concluded until 30 September 1978 .
fied in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1045/77 of
 18 May 1977 laying down detailed rules for the appli­                                    Article 4
cation of measures to encourage the marketing of
products processed from lemons (3) ;                              This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States.
              Done at Brussels, 31 May 1978 .
                                                                            For the Commission
                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                                Vice-President
(!) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p. 3 .
(2) OJ No L 142, 30 . 5 . 1978 , p. 14.
(3) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p. 23 .