CELEX: 31978R1232
Language: en
Date: 1978-06-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1232/78 of 8 June 1978 fixing the reference prices for peaches for the 1978 marketing year

9 . 6. 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                        No L 153 / 13
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1232/78
                                                       of 8 June 1978
                       fixing the reference prices for peaches for the 1978 marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    market or markets situated in the production areas
COMMUNITIES,                                                     where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
Economic Community,
                                                                  home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
                                                                 teristics, being a product or variety representing a
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     substantial proportion of the production marketed
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization               over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
of the market in fruit and vegetables ('), as last               fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 1 54/78 (2), and in             whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             representative market is being calculated, prices which
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation              could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                 low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              market are to be disregarded ;
the marketing year ;                                             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
Whereas peaches are produced in such quantities in               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
the Community that reference prices should be fixed              ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
for them ;
Whereas peaches harvested during a given ,crop year               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
are marketed from May to October ; whereas the quan­
tities harvested in May, during the first 10 days of
                                                                                          Article 1
June and in October are so small that there is no
need to fix reference prices for these periods ; whereas          For the 1978 marketing year, the reference prices for
reference prices should be fixed only for the period             peaches (subheading 08.07 B of the Common
from 1 1 June up to and including 30 September ;                  Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation                kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
(EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on              sizes, shall be as follows :
the bases of the artihmetic mean of producer prices in
each Member State plus an amount representing the                — June (1 1 to 20) :                      43-33
costs of transporting Community products from the                           (21 to 30) :                   39.51
production areas to Community marketing centres ;
                                                                 — JulY :                                  37-69
whereas the trend of production costs in the fruit and
vegetables sector must also be taken into account ;              — August and September :                  35-63
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
                                                                                          Article 2
ence price fixed for each of these periods ;
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                 This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 1 June
average of the prices recorded on the representative              1978 .
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 8 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.