CELEX: 31977R2591
Language: en
Date: 1977-11-24 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2591/77 of 24 November 1977 fixing for the 1977/78 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges

No L 301 / 18                        Official Journal of the European Communities                            25. 11 . 77
                                 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2591 /77
                                                 of 24 November 1977
                fixing for the 1977/78 marketing year the reference prices for sweet oranges
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                 (EEC) No 2511 /69 of 9 December 1969 laying down
COMMUNITIES,                                                   special measures for improving the production and
                                                               marketing of Community citrus fruit (3), as last
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European          amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 ;
Economic Community,
                                                               Whereas for the 1977/78 marketing year the financial
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                   compensation provided for by Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization              2511 /69 has been increased, by comparison with the
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last             preceding marketing year, by a percentage equal to
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1 034/77 (2), and in            that applied to the basic and buying-in prices ;
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                           whereas the reference prices for the 1977/78
                                                               marketing year should therefore be maintained at the
                                                               levels fixed for the previous year ;
Whereas Article 23(1 ) of Regulation (EEC) No
1035/72 provides that reference prices valid for the
whole Community are to be fixed each year before the           Whereas for the purpose of calculating entry prices
beginning of the marketing year ;                              the varieties imported from third countries of which
                                                               the entry prices are respectively to be compared with
                                                               the prices fixed for Groups I, II and III must be speci­
Whereas the importance of sweet orange production              fied ; whereas, moreover, certain varieties imported
in the Community is such that a reference price must           from third countries are not directly comparable, as
be fixed for that product ;                                     regards their commercial value, with the Community
                                                               variety groups ; whereas provision should therefore be
Whereas the period during which oranges harvested              made to fix, by reference to their respective commer­
during a given crop year are marketed extends from             cial values, conversion factors to be applied for the
October to the following June ; whereas the quantity            purpose of calculating the entry price to the prices for
put on the market during October and November and               these varieties imported from third countries so as to
during the following June represents only a small               make them comparable with the Community variety
percentage of that marketed over the whole marketing           groups ;
year ; whereas the reference price should therefore be
fixed only for a period running from 1 December to             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
31 May of the following year ;                                 are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
                                                                ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
Whereas, since the different varieties of sweet oranges
are not comparable as regards their commercial value,
they should be classed in three groups ;
                                                                HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Whereas the solution best suited to the particular
nature of the Community market for the product in
question is to fix for each group a single reference
price for the whole marketing year ;                                                    Article 1
Whereas, under the second subparagraph of Article               1 . For the 1977/78 marketing year, the reference
23(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72, reference                 prices for fresh sweet oranges (subheading 08.02 A I of
prices for sweet oranges are, beginning with the                the Common Customs Tariff), expressed in units of
 1975/76 marketing year, to be fixed at a level equal to        account per 100 kilograms net and applicable to Class
that" of the previous marketing year, adjusted as neces­        I products of Groups I, II and III of all sizes, packed,
sary by a percentage not exceeding the difference               shall be as follows :
between the percentages representing respectively the
variation compared with the preceding marketing year           — Group I : from 1 December to 31 March : 18-90,
in basic and buying-in prices and in the financial             — Group II : from 1 January to 31 May : 16-28,
compensation provided for by Council Regulation
                                                               — Group III : from 1 December to 30 April : 9-03.
(!) OJ No L 118, 20. 5. 1972, p. 1 .
(2) OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 1 .                           (3) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969, p. 1 .
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2. The variety groups referred to in paragraph 1                  — for the period 1 January to 31 May, with the
consist of the following varieties :                                  price fixed for Group II.
— Group I : Moro and Tarocco,
— Group II : Sanguinello,                                     4. In calculating the entry prices as referred to in
                                                              paragraph 3, the prices for products imported from
— Group III : Biondo comune.                                  third countries shall, after deduction of customs
3. The entry prices of imported products shall be             duties, be adjusted as follows :
compared :
                                                              — in the case of products as specified in paragraph
(a) in the case of the Moro and Tarocco varieties, with           3 (b), by the conversion factor 0-76,
     the price fixed for Group I ;
                                                              — in the case of products to which the first indent of
(b) in the case of the varieties Biondo comune (Blanca
                                                                  paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor
     comuna, Blonde commune), Grano de Oro (Impe­                 1-20,
     rial, Sucrena), Baladi, Pera, Macetera, Pineapple,
     Blood oval (Doblefina, Double fine), Portuguese          — in the case of products to which the second indent
     Blood, Sanguina redonda (Entrefina), the Surinam             of paragraph 3 (c) applies, by the conversion factor
     varieties and the Ordinary Blood variety with the            100 .
     exception of Naval Blood (Double fine improved,
     Washington Blood, Large Blood) and Maltese
     Blood, with the price fixed for Group III ;                                       Article 2
(c) in the case of varieties not specified in (a) or (b) :
     — for the month of December, with the price for          This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 December
          Group I,                                            1977.
               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
               States.
               Done at Brussels, 24 November 1977.
                                                                         For the Commission
                                                                          Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                             Vice-President