CELEX: 31977R1213
Language: en
Date: 1977-06-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1213/77 of 7 June 1977 fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for plums

8 . 6. 77                              Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 140/ 11
                                  COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1213/77
                                                        of 7 June 1977
                      fixing, for the 1977 marketing year, the reference prices for plums
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                   where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
 COMMUNITIES,                                                     the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
                                                                  home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            teristics, being a product or variety representing a
 Economic Community,                                              substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                  over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                     fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
  1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization               whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
 of the market in fruit and vegetables ( !), as last              representative market is being calculated, prices which
 amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in               could be considered excessively high or excessively
 particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                             low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
                                                                  market are to be disregarded ;
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                 Whereas, for the purpose of calculating entry prices,
 whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of              the varieties imported from third countries of which
 the marketing year ;                                             the entry prices are to be compared with the prices
                                                                  fixed for Group I and with those fixed for Group II
 Whefreas plums are produced in such quantities in the            respectively should be specified ;
 Community that reference prices should be fixed for
 them ;                                                           Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
                                                                  are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
 Whereas plums harvested during a given crop year are             ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
 marketed from June to October ; whereas the quanti­
 ties harvested during the first 10 days of June and
 during the last 10 days of October are so small that
 there is no need to fix reference prices for these
 periods ; whereas reference prices should be fixed only          HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
 for the period from 1 1 June up to and including 20
 October ;
                                                                                           Article 1
 Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
 (EEC) No 1035/72, the reference prices are fixed on
 the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in           1 . For the 1977 marketing year, the reference
 each Member State plus an amount representing the                prices for plum (subheading 08.07 D of the Common
 costs of transporting Community products from the                Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
 production areas to Community marketing centres ;                kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
 whereas the trend of average basic prices and                    sizes, shall be as follows for each of the groups of varie­
 buying-in prices must also be taken into account ;               ties :
                                                                                                        Group I    Group II
Whereas, since the varieties of plums are not all                 —    from 11 June to 31 July :         33*24        —
 comparable as regards the estimation of their commer­            —   August :                           31-84      25-95
 cial value, these varieties should be classified in two          —   September :                        27-39      21-51
groups ;                                                          —   October (1 to 20) :                  —        20-32
Whereas, to take seasonal variations into account, the
year should be divided into several periods and a refer­
 ence price fixed for each of these periods ;                     2. The groups of varieties referred to in paragraph 1
                                                                  shall be composed of the following varieties :
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the
average of the prices recorded on the representative              Group I :
 market or markets situated in the production areas
                                                                  Altesse double (Italian quetsche), Precoce favourite,
(!) OJ No L 118 , 20 . 5. 1972, p . 1 .                           Belle de Louvain, Conducta, Early Rivers, Kirk's Blue,
(2) OJ No L 125, 19 . 5. 1977, p . 1 .                            Jefferson Gage, Liitzelsachser (early Liitzelsachsen
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quetsche), Anna Spath, Ersinger (early Ersingen                 ties : Altesse simple (common quetsche, Haus­
quetsche), Zimmers (Zimmer quetsche), Bühler (early             zwetschge), Reine Claude d'Oullins (Oullins Gage),
Bühl quetsche), Burbank, Florentia, Goccia d'oro,               Sveskeblommer, Ruth Gerstetter, Ontario, Wangen­
Reine Claude, Czar, Victorias, Purple Pershore,                 heimer (early Wangenheim quetsche), Pershore
Damsons.                                                        (yellow egg), Mirabelle, Bosniche.
Group II :
                                                            Amendments to the preceding subparagraph shall be
Altesse simple (common quetsche, Hauszwetschge),            adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down
Reine    Claude    d'Oullins,  Sveskeblommer,     Ruth      in Article 33 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, in
Gerstetter, Ontario, Pershore (yellow egg).                 keeping with changes in the varieties imported from
                                                            third countries.
3. The entry prices of imported products are to be
compared :
(a) with the prices fixed for Group I where the
    imported products belong to varieties other than                               Article 2
    those shown in (b);
(b) with the prices fixed for Group II where the            This Regulation shall enter into force on 11 June
    imported products belong to the following varie          1977.
             This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
             States.
             Done at Brussels, 7 June 1977.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                        Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                  Member of the Commission