CELEX: 31977R0859
Language: en
Date: 1977-04-27 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 859/77 of 27 April 1977 fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of May 1977

No L 104/30                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             28.4.77
                                      COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 859/77
                                                          of 27 April 1977
                        fixing the reference price for tomatoes for the month of May 1977
 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 markets in fruit and vegetables ( ! ), as last
  amended by Regulation ( EEC) No 795/76 (2), and in                 Whereas, during the month of May, Community-pro­
  particular Article 27 ( 1 ) thereof,                               duced tomatoes are grown mainly under glass ;
                                                                     whereas the reference price for this month must there­
                                                                     fore be fixed for a product of that tyype ; whereas
  Whereas, pursuant to Article 23 ( 1 ) of Regulation                tomatoes imported from certain third countries will
  (EEC) No 1035/72, reference prices valid for the                    have 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 facor ;
  the 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 tomatoes harvested during a given crop year                 ment Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,
  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 608 /77 of 23 March 1977 (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 1977, 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 1 , of all
  production areas to Community marketing centres ;                   sizes, shall be as follows : 76.00 .
  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 of
  average of the prices recorded on the representative                customs duties, be multiplied by a conversion factor
  market or markets situated in the production areas                  of 1.80 .
  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 118 , 20.5.1972, p . 1 .
  (2) OJ No L 93 , 8.4.1976, p . 6 .
  (3 ) OJ No L 76, 24 . 3 . 1977, p . 22 .                            This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 May 1977.
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        This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
        States .
        Done at Brussels, 27 April 1977.
                                                               For the Commission
                                                                Finn GUNDELACH
                                                                   Vice-President