CELEX: 31978R0824
Language: en
Date: 1978-04-25 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 824/78 of 25 April 1978 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of May 1978

26 . 4 . 78                               Official Journal of the European Communities                           No L 114/7
                                     COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 824/78
                                                         of 25 April 1978
                       fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of May 1978
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       teristics, being a product or variety representing a
COMMUNITIES ,                                                        substantial proportion of the production marketed
                                                                     over the year or over part thereof and satisfying speci­
                                                                     fied requirements as regards market preparation ;
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European               whereas, when the average of prices recorded on each
 Economic Community,                                                 representative market is being calculated, prices which
                                                                     could be considered excessively high or excessively
                                                                     low in relation to normal price fluctuations on that
 Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                        market are to be disregarded ;
 1035/72 of 18 May 1972 on the common organization
of the market in fruit and vegetables (*), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1034/77 (2), and in                   Whereas during the month of May Community­
particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                                 produced tomatoes are grown mainly under glass ;
                                                                     whereas the reference price for this month must there­
                                                                     fore be fixed for a product of that type ; whereas toma­
Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                  toes imported from certain third countries will have
(EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                     been grown in the open ; whereas, although such
whole Community are to be fixed at the beginning of                  tomatoes may be classed in Class I, their quality and
the marketing year ;                                                 price are not comparable with those of products
                                                                     grown under glass ; whereas the price for tomatoes not
                                                                     grown under glass should therefore be adjusted by a
Whereas tomatoes are produced in such quantities in                  conversion factor ;
the Community that reference prices should be fixed
 for them ;
                                                                     Whereas the Management Committee for Fruit and
                                                                     Vegetables has not delivered an opinion within the
Whereas tomatoes harvested during a given crop year                  time limit set by its chairman ,
are marketed from January to December ; whereas, for
the present marketing year, the reference prices have
already been fixed up to 30 April by Regulation (EEC)
 No 585/78 of 22 March 1 978 (3 ) ; whereas with the
information currently available it is not possible to fix            HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
reference prices beyond the month of May ; whereas
reference prices should therefore be fixed only for that
month ;
                                                                                              Article 1
Whereas pursuant to Article 23 (2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1035/72 the reference prices are fixed on                   1 . For the month of May 1978 , the reference price
the basis of the arithmetic mean of producer prices in               for tomatoes (subheading 07.01 M of the Common
each Member State plus an amount representing the                    Customs Tariff), expressed in units of account per 100
costs of transporting Community products from the                    kilograms net of packed products of Class I, of all
production areas to Community marketing centres ;                    sizes , shall be as follows : 77-53 .
whereas the trend of average basic prices and buying­
in prices must also be taken into account ;
                                                                     2.      For the purpose of calculating entry prices, the
                                                                     prices for tomatoes not produced under glass,
Whereas producer prices are to correspond to the                     imported from third countries, shall, after deduction
average of the prices recorded on the representative                 of customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion
market or markets situated in the production areas                   factor of 1-75 .
where prices are lowest, during the three years prior to
the date on which the reference price is fixed, for a
home-grown product with defined commercial charac­
                                                                                              Article 2
(>) OJ No L 1 18 , 20 . 5 . 1972, p . 1 .
(-') OJ No L 125, 19 . 5 . 1977, p . 1 .
(>) OJ No L 79 , 23 . 3 . 1978 , p. 28 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1978 .
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           This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
           States.
           Done at Brussels, 25 April 1978 .
                                                                  For the Commission
                                                                   Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                      Vice-President